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Address Drinking, Smoking to Raise Life Expectancy: WHO
About one in four premature deaths worldwide can be traced to five health factors -- alcohol use, poor childhood nutrition, unsafe sex, bad sanitation and hygiene, and high blood pressure -- according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 11/04/2009
Study Shows How Alcohol Can Spread Cancer
Researchers from Rush University Medical Center may have discovered how alcohol transforms regular cancer cells into a more aggressive form of the disease that can spread to other areas of the body. 11/04/2009
Cheap Alcohol Appeals to Problem Drinkers, Study Finds
About 70 percent of the alcohol consumed by a group of problem drinkers in Scotland had been bought at a discount, according to a study that concluded that heavy drinkers actively seek out cheap alcohol and that setting minimum alcohol prices could cut overconsumption. 11/03/2009
Fight Heroin with Heroin, Study Says
Less use of street drugs and less criminal activity were among the benefits of giving heroin addicts daily injections of the drug along with counseling and other services, according to a new study. 11/02/2009
Light Smoking Impairs Arterial Health, Study Finds
Young smokers suffer reduced cardiovascular function even if they smoke only a few cigarettes per day, according to research from Stella Daskalopoulou at the McGill University Health Center. 11/02/2009
Alcohol the Real Date-Rape Drug, Study Says
Women who have lost control or consciousness due to excessive drinking have fueled what British researchers have termed the "urban legend" of drinks being spiked with so-called "date-rape" drugs, according to a new study. 10/29/2009
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