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You may want to reconsider that glass of wine.
There is no science-based cure for hangovers, but there are some helpful pointers.
This is very good news for the future.
They might be small, but these mussels shoulder tremendous responsibility.
Understanding how genetics influences problem drinking can help us help those at risk.
It's twice more common than previous CDC estimates.
What are you drinking right now?
Here's to annoying customers!
If you want to avoid hangovers, simply look for red flags, researchers say.
You might wanna reconsider getting hammered at that party.
I didn't know you were allowed to do this in the UK.
If you think you might have a problem, you'll want to read on.
Drinks for the thirsty, gag reflex for the over-hydrated.
When out for drinks, we're careful not to be the drunkest -- beyond that, anything goes.
Blacking out from alcohol is a bit more complicated than you might think.
What exactly makes you thirsty? Dehydration, obviously, but how does your brain know that your body needs water? And how does that grey, squishy lump resting in your cool and comfortable cranium, know when your body needs to heat up or cool off? Scientists at the McGill University Health Centre Research Institute (RI-MUHC) and Duke University have asked themselves just that, and being scientists, went ahead to find out.
Even though driving after drinking small amounts is legal, it's most definitely not safe, research from the University of Kentucky (UK) in the U.S. finds. Nicholas van Dyke and Mark Fillmore at UK reported that for intoxicated drivers, even those driving under the legally accepted alcohol limit, small distractions such as a text message or dashboard controls are just too much to handle safely. The study provides the first scientific evidence on the impact such distractions have on the ability of liquored drivers to safely control vehicles.
Scottish manufacturer Ballantines comes to the aid of space-dwellers the world round (and beyond) with a new, high-tech glass that promises to make getting hammered with style in space a reality.
When a lion hunts a gazelle, he is actually hunting the weakest of the herd, the one which is the slowest. Repeating the hunt, in time only strengthens the herd. The drunken version of this is that the same things happen with alcohol and neurons: sure, alcohol destroys some neurons, but it’s only the weaker […]
According to a recently published study, teens who regularly drink alcohol tend to spend more time on a computer surfing the internet on social networking sites, than other teens who don’t drink alcohol. As a conclusion that both somewhat bashes ‘nowadays teens’ and the Internet, the study concludes that a link between teenage drinking and […]
