More nagging about booze. How tiresome. A new study, from the universities of Newcastle and Sunderland and published in the public health journal BMC, claims that: "Middle class professionals who drink at home are…
AS expected, there were no reports of men levelling counties in one second flat, nor of mythological giants going hell for leather, when Antrim met Westmeath in the Leinster hurling…
In 2010, alcohol-related harm in the European Union cost €155bn[1]. It's enough to host the London Olympics fourteen times. It is a heavy cost to bear in times of economic…
THE European Commission supports Scotland's legal victory in its fight on minimum pricing. From The Soctsman Published on 12/05/2013 The European Commissioner for Health, Tonio Borg, said on Wednesday: “I'm…
Preventing alcohol abuse, especially among young people, has long been a focus of public-health campaigns. But despite the well-publicised social and medical consequences of drinking too much it's clear that…
The EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg has said he used to hope education would reduce alcohol misuse, but learning and reflection had shown economics were more important, hence his support…
THE LATEST CONSUMER Price Index from the Central Statistics Office has shown that consumer prices in April were up by 0.5 per cent when compared to the same month last…
A number of Co-operation and Working Together (CAWT) health projects being delivered in cross border areas are benefitting the people availing of the services. From the Northern Ireland Executive Wednesday,…
Intense lobbying from alcohol producers would appear to have killed-off this ground-breaking policy The absence of minimum pricing for alcohol in today's Queen's Speech is a chilling reminder of the.