Drink 'kills twice as many Scots'
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The rate of alcohol-related deaths in Scotland is about double the level of the UK as a whole, figures suggest.
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NEW YORK  - Moderate drinking accounts for  more injuries than heavy drinking does, simply because more  people tend to drink small amounts, according to a new report  in the Annals of Family Medicine.
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Â· Crackdown on alcohol-related road deaths  Â· European safety figures show UK falling behind
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Teenage girls are now binge drinking more frequently than boys, according to a report published yesterday. It is the first time girls have outstripped their male peers in excessive alcohol consumption.
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Glasgow is blighted by drug and alcohol abuse and has as many youth gangs as London, a think tank says.
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Death rates in Scotland are falling faster in more affluent areas than in poorer places, a study says.
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Alcohol is now the leading killer of Finnish adults, with consumption reaching an all-time high last year in the Nordic nation, officials said Friday.
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Older women who drink two or  more alcoholic beverages a day may have an elevated risk of  endometrial cancer, a new study suggests.
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YOUNG women who binge drink are likely to ruin their looks as well as their health. A UK campaign launched this week warns of the dangers of too much alcohol.
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ONS survey reveals alcohol consumption in Britain could also be falling
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Leaders of the British Medical Association Scotland call for better labelling on alcohol.
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Alcohol may be involved in as many as one-third of U.S. suicides, federal researchers reported on Thursday.
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Men who drink more heavily are at increased risk of stroke compared to lighter drinkers and teetotallers, research shows.
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Men who drink three or more alcoholic drinks a day are more likely to have a stroke than non-drinkers, a study says.
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Heavily drinking -- or binging -- even intermittently, almost doubles a person&#39;s risk of dying after a heart attack, compared to that of a moderate drinker, according, to a first-of-its-kind study, reported at the American Heart Association&#39;s Scientific
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Moderate alcohol consumption has long been considered good for the heart, but a new study finds binge drinking doubles the risk of dying after a heart attack.
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LONDON - Like the Loch Ness monster, the deep-fried Mars bar is regarded by some as a Scottish myth. But a study published Friday in a medical journal confirms that Scots consume thousands of the battered