(HEALTHDAY) - MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- If you plan to make a New Year's resolution about improving your health, the American Medical Association (AMA) has some good suggestions.
(Reuters Health) - For people with atrial fibrillation, abstinence from alcohol may make the heart beat better.
"Although edibles are commonly viewed as a safer and more desirable alternative to smoked or vaped cannabis, physicians and the public should be aware of several risks related to the use of cannabis edibles," write Drs. Jasleen Grewal and Lawrence Loh from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.
Compulsive drinking may be due to dysfunction in a specific brain pathway that normally helps keep drinking in check. The results are reported in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Whether you want to loosen up at a work or family function or just really like a friend’s festive punch bowl concoction, it can be easy to consume too much alcohol without realizing it.
Ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft, which keep drunk drivers off the road, are also likely to increase excessive levels of alcohol consumption according to new research by economists at the University of Louisville and Georgia State University.
Because high alcohol intake and physical inactivity are known breast cancer risk factors, researchers performed a population-based, prospective cohort study to investigate whether the association between these lifestyle factors and breast cancer may be altered by a woman's additional breast cancer risk factors.
(HealthDay News) -- People who regularly drink to excess are also likely to use benzodiazepines, a new study finds.
New research suggests that moderate drinking may lower the risk of being hospitalized for any cause, including cardiovascular conditions. Drinking in moderation may reduce the risk of hospitalization.
A new study suggests that even light-to-moderate alcohol consumption may increase overall cancer risk, compared with not drinking any alcohol at all. The research, which was conducted in Japan, found that current and former drinkers were at an 18% higher overall risk for cancer compared with non-drinkers and that the overall risk was lowest at zero alcohol consumption.