Irish Medical Times – Alcohol deaths ‘easily’ preventable
Alcohol is responsible for around 80 per cent of deaths from liver disease, but many of these deaths are easily preventable, according to a comment in The Lancet that takes…
Irish Independent – Breakfast-roll man builds up problems for the future
In the Celtic Tiger era he was known as 'breakfast-roll man' (made famous by comedian Pat Shortt) - a familiar sight in his high-visibility jacket buying high calorie takeaway food…
Irish Sunday Mirror – Beer a Lidl bit cheaper than chocolate
Irish Sunday Mirror, 27/02/11 Click on image to view in full size
250,000 deaths from alcohol abuse ‘unless Government acts’
As many as a quarter of a million people will die from alcohol abuse over the next two decades unless the Government takes the problem as seriously as it did smoking, health experts have warned. Figures from the World Health Organisation showed th
Projections of alcohol deaths–a wake-up call
According to WHO, morbidity attributable to alcohol in countries with an established market economy (10?3% of disability adjusted life years) comes second only to that of tobacco (11?7%).1 Liver disease is responsible for 70% of the directly recorded mort
Rise in high alcohol content drinks in NZ
Expand A new report has found a big increase in the amount of high alcohol content drinks on sale to New Zealanders. The latest Statistics New Zealand report into Alcohol Available for Consumption found the total amount of alcoholic drinks on sale in New Zealand rose by 0.6 per cent in the year to
Almost one in five of us don’t believe alcohol cancer link
Ireland has the second highest cancer rate in the world, yet almost one in five Irish adults do not believe there is a connection between alcohol and cancer. Figures compiled…
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