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Health Select Committee calls for tougher controls on alcohol advertising

  • Post published:31/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

The House of Commons Health Select Committee has issued a report generally supportive of the Coalition Government’s new Alcohol Strategy for England, but calling for tougher controls on alcohol advertising.

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Mother’s drinking games warning

  • Post published:31/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

THE mother of a missing student has warned other young people about the dangers of playing drinking games after revealing her son was involved in them before his disappearance.

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Child poverty: Take parental addiction into account, urges Duncan Smith

  • Post published:31/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

Parental addiction and other factors should be taken into account when considering a new definition of child poverty, a cabinet minister is to say.

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Binge drinking increases risk of Type 2 diabetes by causing insulin resistance

  • Post published:30/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

Binge drinking causes insulin resistance, which increases the risk of Type 2 diabetes, according to the results of an animal study led by researchers at the Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism Institute at the Icahn School of Med

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German beer drinking hits post-reunification low

  • Post published:30/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

The Associated Press= Germans are emptying fewer beer steins these days. Consumption of the national beverage fell by 1.8 percent last year to the lowest level since West and East Germany reunified in 1990.

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Men twice as likely as women to die from alcohol-related causes

  • Post published:30/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

Office for National Statistics - 30 Jan 2013 16:10

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Healy-Rae drink-drive permit plea is rejected

  • Post published:30/01/2013
  • Post category:News

From Independent.ie INDEPENDENT TD Michael Healy-Rae has tabled a Dail request, asking Transport Minister Leo Varadkar to introduce new laws allowing for his brother Danny's controversial drink-driving permits. But Mr…

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Alcohol-related death rate higher for women in Wales

  • Post published:29/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

Women in Wales are more likely to die from alcohol-related causes than women in England, according to official figures.

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Alcohol death rate double among men

  • Post published:29/01/2013
  • Post category:World News

Men are twice as likely as women to die from alcohol-related causes, figures suggest. In 2011, about 66% of the 8,748 alcohol-related deaths in the UK were men and around 33% were women, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.

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Council sends letter to Minister calling for drink-driving limit to be relaxed

  • Post published:29/01/2013
  • Post category:News

KERRY COUNTY COUNCIL has confirmed that it has sent a letter to the Minister for Justice outlining the nature a recently passed motion which called for drink-driving limits to be relaxed in rural areas.

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