The heaviest fall in the consumption of alcohol in more than 60 years was witnessed in 2009, an industry body has revealed (Source: Management in Practice)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

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Alcohol consumption has fallen faster than ever, figures from the British Beer and Pub Association suggest. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

Sugar, salt, alcohol and a little serendipity led researchers to discover a new class of nanostructures that could be used for gas storage and food and medical technologies. And the compounds are edible. The porous crystals are the first known all-natural metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) that are simple to make. Most other MOFs are made from petroleum-based ingredients, but the new MOFs you can pop into your mouth and eat, and the researchers have. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

The Scottish government has announced plans for a minimum alcohol price of 45p per unit. (Source: HealthcareRepublic Independent Nurse News)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

PLANS to impose a 45p a unit minimum alcoholic drink price would be a "tax on the poor" and cost customers hundreds of millions of pounds, it has been claimed. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health)

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THE Scottish Government has revealed that it wants to set a minimum price of 45p per unit of alcohol. (Source: Scotsman.com News - Health of the NHS)

According to Forbes.com:Caffeine is a drug of abuse, like alcohol or cocaine, because it meets these two criteria: "reinforcing efforts" and "adverse effects which can cause harm to self or society." Reinforcing effects is science talk for "addictive": The more you have, the higher your tolerance levels and the more you need. Take it away, and you experience withdrawal symptoms.C8H10N4O2 is a chemical compound found in beans, leaves and fruits of some plants. It's a natural pesticide for them, paralyzing and killing insects that try to feed on them. On humans it acts as a stimulant on the central nervous system and has psychotropic effects. It increases heart rate, blood pressure and respiration, and it is mildly diuretic.Caffeine is structurally similar to adenosine. Image source: Wikiped...

During the 60th session of the Africa Committee of the WHO on Monday, Luis Sambo, regional director of the WHO for Africa, proposed the creation of a public health emergency fund to provide financial support to African countries in emergency situations, Agencia AngolaPress reports (8/30). According to a WHO press release, Sambo's proposed $100 million African Public Health Emergency Fund (APHEF) would be "financed from agreed appropriations and voluntary contributions from member states... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

The Scottish government says drinkers should spend a minimum of 45p for every unit of alcohol they buy. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

More than one in four people in England drink dangerous amounts of alcohol every week, according to research (Source: Management in Practice)

The seed-mediated method in presence of high concentrations of CTAB is frequently implemented in the preparation of high aspect ratio gold nanorods (i.e., nanorods with aspect ratios of 5 or more); however, the reproducibility has still been limited. We rendered the synthesis procedure simpler, decreased the susceptibility to impurities, and improved the reproducibility of the product distribution. As a result of the high aspect ratios, longitudinal plasmon absorptions were shifted up to very high absorption maxima of 1955 nm in UV-vis-NIR spectra (since this band is completely covered in aqueous solution by the strong absorption of water, the gold species were embedded in poly(vinyl alcohol) films for UV-vis-NIR measurements). Finally, the directed particle growth in (110) direction leads...

The Scottish government says drinkers should spend a minimum of 45p for every unit of alcohol they buy. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)

Alcohol misuse has been identified as an important contributing factor to many social ills. This translates into an increasing need to address the issue and to push for the responsible use and sale of alcohol in Namibia. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)MedWorm Message: Register for MedMatcha, MedWorm's medical advertising network, and receive $5 free advertising.

Ezlopitant, a compound known to suppress craving for alcohol in humans, was shown to decrease consumption of sweetened water by rodents in a new study. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

Prior research had found an association between DNA sequence variations in a gene that encodes parts of the brain's gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)-A receptors (the GABRA2 gene) and alcohol dependence. New research has found that the GABRA2 genotype can also affect the brain's reward responses to cues such as alcohol odors. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)

Responding to figures from the North West Public Health Observatory on the effects of alcohol consumption, NHS Confederation deputy policy director Jo Webber said it was up to society as a whole to address the problems of excessive drinking Commenting on the release of Local Alcohol Profiles for England (LAPE) by the North West Public Health Observatory, Jo webber, deputy policy director of the NHS Confederation, which represents over 95 per cent of NHS organisations said: "The NHS Confederation has argued in a report at the New Year that alcohol is causing a growing heal... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

A study published in the scientific journal Addiction argues that privatising Sweden's government monopoly on the sale of alcohol will significantly increase alcohol-related violence and other harms. Depending on the type of privatisation, experts predict that total alcohol consumption in Sweden will increase by 17 - 37%, with thousands more alcohol-related deaths, assaults, and drunk driving offences per year and up to 11 million more days of sick leave. Systembolaget, the Swedish Alcohol Retail Monopoly, currently controls the off-premises sale, within Sweden, of all beverages over 3... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)