Female binge-drinking linked to cocktail of TV and peer pressure
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YOUNG girls are being lured into the binge drinking culture sweeping Welsh towns and cities by glamorous television and billboard adverts.
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MONDAY, Aug. 16 (HealthDayNews) -- Women who binge drink, get depressed or smoke during their pregnancy boost their risk for depression and alcohol use after they give birth as well, a new study shows.
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MONDAY, Feb. 4 (HealthDay News) -- Parents' drinking directly influences teen drinking and also has an indirect effect through teen perceptions of parenting, especially monitoring and disciplines, a new study says.
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Girls with boyfriends two or more years older are more than twice as likely to drink, according to a new national survey.
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Actress Lindsay Lohan's weekend drunken-driving bust could spell a hangover for trendy Hollywood-area nightspots, some of them already the targets of a year long crackdown on underage drinking.
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An academic examines the "moral panic" over binge drinking and if "quick fix solutions" will work.
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A national survey in Australia shows worrying levels of alcohol consumption among the country's teenagers.
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LOS ANGELES  - Another dating competition series is coming to television, but this one has a new twist: MTV's "A Shot at Love With Tila Tequila" will feature the bisexual MySpace phenomenon choosing from among both male and female suitors.
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Growing alcohol consumption is creating an alien drinking and "lager-lout" culture among the young in Italy, medical experts have warned.
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Three or more drinks a day, whether  beer, wine or spirits, boost a woman&#39;s risk of breast cancer as  much as smoking a pack of cigarettes, U.S. researchers said on  Thursday.
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Teenager girls have out-binge drunk boys for the first time, according to new figures. In 2003, nearly a third (29 per cent) of 15 and 16-year-old girls admitted to binge-drinking, compared to 26 per cent of British lads.
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Almost half of young women in Britain would cut down on their drinking to reduce their risk of getting breast cancer, a survey revealed.
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Updated methods for calculating alcohol consumption classify many more people as drinking too much.
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Cans and bottles of sugar-sweetened colas, lemonade and fruit drinks, which many people think can be drunk with impunity, are today implicated as a major cause of obesity and linked to a rise in diabetes by scientists in the United States.
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Â· Government launches alcohol abuse strategyÂ· Critics call for happy hours and promotions ban
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NEW YORK  - Young adults who binge drink frequently are more likely to show disadvantageous decision-making patterns than their peers who don't drink as heavily, a new study shows.
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Fans of the popular U.S. TV show  "Desperate Housewives" may be dying to discuss last night's  episode, but the odds are that their friends and co-workers  watched something else.