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5 Nerdy Cocktails (and Mocktails) to Distract You From the World

Well, it’s the time of year (or every four years) when you might find yourself needing new ways to keep yourself…

Beth Elderkin

11/02/20 12:45PM

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Health Experts Say Alcohol Limit for Men Should Be One Drink a Day

Experts are saying there shouldn’t be a gender gap when it comes to safer drinking. On Thursday, a committee of…

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Thirsty Koalas Caught on Camera Licking Wet Trees

Unprecedented footage shows koalas slurping water from wet tree trunks both during and after rainstorms. The…

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Any Alcohol Use Can Harm a Fetus, New Research Review Finds

A new review study out Tuesday has a sobering conclusion for pregnant women: Drinking alcohol will increase the risk…

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Alcohol Is Killing More Americans Than Ever

More and more Americans are drinking themselves to death. A new study this week finds there were around 72,000…

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Yet More Research Links Even Light Drinking to a Higher Cancer Risk

In a new study this week, researchers in Japan have found a link between lifetime drinking to an increased risk of…

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Prospective Fathers Should Avoid Binge Drinking, Study Finds

Prospective parents—but especially dads—might be wise to avoid too much alcohol, according to a new study out this…

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One in Five Americans Gets Hurt By Someone Else's Drinking Every Year

The negative effects of secondhand smoke are well-documented—the CDC estimates that tens of thousands of nonsmokers…

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Flying a Drone While Drunk Could Land You in Prison in Japan

You’d assume it would go without saying that operating any kind of machinery or vehicle after a few drinks is a dumb…

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A Built-in Breathalyzer Lets This Grown Up Tamagotchi Toy Join You For a Night of Drinking

The Tamagotchi has come a long way in the past twenty years. There’s a lot you can now do with the virtual pets (get…

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Hasbro Updated Battleship for the Beer Pong Generation

Following up on a bouncing ping-pong ball version of Connect 4 released last year, Hasbro is updating another one of…

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'Dry January' Helps People Lay Off Alcohol Even Months Later, Study Finds

There’s at least one healthy New Year’s resolution that you may actually maintain through the year, suggests a new…

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World Health Organization Study Finds Alcohol Responsible for Five Percent of Deaths Worldwide

Alcohol is responsible for over one in 20 of all deaths worldwide, according to the most recent edition of a World…

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There's No Such Thing as Safe Alcohol Consumption, Huge New Study Finds

You don’t have to go far to find people, including doctors and researchers, who will argue that a little bit of…

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NIH Pulls the Plug on Controversial Drinking Study Funded by Big Alcohol

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has abruptly halted its $100 million study meant to examine whether moderate…

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Anheuser-Busch Pulls Funding From Controversial, Industry-Backed NIH Study on Daily Drinking

The National Institutes of Health has taken a whole lot of heat for allegedly cozying up to Big Alcohol in order to…

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One Reason Alcohol May Give You Bad Breath

The perils of drinking too much alcohol run deep—even if there’s still an ongoing debate as to how much is too much.…

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Booze Not So Great for the Heart After All, Study Says

It might take less alcohol than we think to damage the heart and shorten our lifespans, suggests a new study publishe…

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The NIH's Cozy Relationship With Big Alcohol Is Bad for Science

The National Institutes of Health is facing more allegations that it’s in Big Alcohol’s corner. Not only has the…

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The NIH Is Looking Into Whether Its Officials Begged Big Alcohol to Fund Major Drinking Study

Serious ethical questions have loomed over a large, ongoing study overseen by the National Institutes of Health. The…

Ed Cara

3/22/18 10:55AM

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