There are some 1.8 billion adolescents (those aged 10-24 years) in the world today, comprising more than a quarter of the world's population. However, the first paper in The Lancet Series on Adolescen
A protein has been identified that plays a key role in the link between drinking alcohol and breast cancer. Women with higher levels of the molecule in their breasts are more likely to develop cancer if they drink too much, research suggests.
Low-alcohol beers appear to be gaining in popularity in the off-trade, thanks in part to lower duty on beers below 2.8% abv, with sales at one supermarket rising by almost 50%.
THE LATEST Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey is something of a curate’s egg. A welcome reduction in drinking and smoking among 9 to 18-year-olds in the Republic must be set against continuing poor levels of physical activity and an increase in the number of children who say they
Eight off-licences sold alcohol to a 16-year-old boy in an undercover operation by gardaà in Dundalk, Co Louth, as part of measures to deal with the problem of youths drinking at weekends.
Raising the price of ultra-cheap lager, gin and vodka will save more than 1,000 lives each year, according to new research today.
THE number is on every cask, bottle and can but we still have no idea how many standard drinks are in our favourite tipple, a new study shows.
Business leaders have called for zero tolerance on illegal street drinking in Cork City amid concern that it could damage tourism.
The scourge of cheap booze remains rife in Northern Ireland where strong alcohol continues to be sold at knockdown prices, it can be revealed. Stormont ministers have hit out at the low-cost drink culture here after a charity discovered that two