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Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Alcohol Industry Needs More Scrutiny

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The influence of “Big Alcohol” in the health arena deserves as much scrutiny as Big Pharma and Big Tobacco, especially in light of evidence of bias in funded research, unsupported claims of benefit, and inappropriate promotion and marketing by the alcohol industry, says a new editorial in this week’s PLoS Medicine…

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New Study: Alcohol Harms The Brain Immediately

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

A nice drink cannot do any harm?

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Obesity Greater Risk For Fatty Liver Than Moderate Amounts Of Alcohol

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Being overweight and resistant to insulin constitute a greater risk for fatty liver than was previously thought, according to a study from Linköping University in Sweden that is now being published in the journal Annals of Medicine. It has long been known that large amounts of alcohol can cause fatty liver…

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‘It’s Not the Addiction that Kills People, It’s the Smoke’

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

It’s a very difficult problem, because any other substance that caused this much harm would simply be banned. And we, as a society, have made the decision that we’re not going to ban tobacco. — Michael Siegel

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Research Reveals Smokers View Nicotine As Addictive As Cocaine

Monday, May 30, 2011

To mark World No Tobacco Day tomorrow, a new survey reveals smokers themselves perceive nicotine to be more addictive than cocaine and only marginally less addictive than heroin1…

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Lansley demands more supermarket action; Health campaign cuts under spotlight

Monday, May 30, 2011

Lansley calls on supermarkets to act on 'front of store' promotions The Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, has written to supermarkets to re-iterate requests that supermarkets pledge to remove alcohol promotions from front of stores, reports The Telegraph . Department of Health (DoH) officials said Ministers were frustrated that more supermarkets had not made further commitments, with only Asda applying discretion to the location of alcohol promotions. In the letter, Lansley called on the supermarkets to “do more”, requesting “all major alcohol retailers' full participation in this effort”

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Study Reveals Doctors Can Do More To Address Prescription Drug Abuse

Sunday, May 29, 2011

As prescription drug abuse reaches epidemic proportions, a recent study reports disturbingly low monitoring rates for patients taking powerful prescription drugs. Only 8 percent of patients taking opioid pain medications are screened by their doctor

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Man Fined £10,000 For Illegal Sale Of Lifestyle Drugs, UK

Friday, May 27, 2011

A 27-year-old man from Uxbridge in northwest London was yesterday (26 May 2011) fined £10,000 at Southwark Crown Court for selling unlicensed medicines for erectile dysfunction.

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New Legislation On Falsified Medicines: Smart Implementation Needed For Non-prescription Medicines, Europe

Friday, May 27, 2011

The European self-medication industry is fully committed to protect the consumer against counterfeit medicines and appreciates today’s adoption of the Directive on falsified medicines by the Council of the European Union…

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Statistics on Alcohol, England 2011: Alcohol-related admissions pass 1 million mark

Thursday, May 26, 2011

The upward trend of alcohol-related hospital admissions passed 1 million per year in 2010, official figures show. The newly released Statistics on Alcohol: England, 2011 report states: 'In 2009/10 there were around 1,057,000 admissions related to alcohol consumption where an alcohol-related disease, injury or condition was the primary reason for hospital admission or a secondary diagnosis.

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