OBJECTIVE  To investigate to what extent alcohol consumption affects female fecundability. DESIGN  Prospective cohort study. SETTING  Denmark, 1 June 2007 to 5 January 2016. PARTICIPANTS  6120 female Danish residents, aged 21-45 years, in a stable relationship with a male partner, who were trying to conceive and not receiving fertility treatment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES  Alcohol consumpti...

BACKGROUND Although many studies suggest that consumption of alcohol increases the risk of several site-specific cancers, the evidence remains unclear for prostate cancer. Few data exist on beverage-specific associations as well as lifetime patterns of alcohol consumption and prostate cancer risk. METHODS We prospectively followed 7612 Harvard alumni (mean age 66.6 years) from 1988 through 19...

CONTEXT Adolescent drinking is a major public health concern. The federal government does not restrict alcohol advertising to adolescents, but relies on the alcohol industry for self-regulation. OBJECTIVES To investigate recent alcohol advertising in magazines and to determine whether advertising frequency is associated with adolescent readership. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS All alcohol a...

Alcohol taxation is an important policy instrument for correcting market failures associated with excessive alcohol consumption. This paper examines the beverage-specific negative externalities by providing empirical evidence linking ten alcoholic beverage types to drink-driving and hazardous, disturbing or abusive behaviours when intoxicated, using data from six waves of Australian recreationa...

Abstract Shahab Ahmed’s What Is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (2016) challenges Studies scholars, (art) historians, and anthropologists to reconsider theoretical frameworks underpinning historical ethnographic research. This article addresses concerns that studies Islam often conceptually privilege orthodoxy, by including drinking intoxication as worthy close attention in examining the...

BACKGROUND Accurate measures of alcohol consumption are critical in assessing health harms caused by alcohol. In many countries, there are large discrepancies between survey-based measures of consumption and those based on alcohol sales. In England, surveys measuring typical alcohol consumption account for only around 60% of alcohol sold. Here, using a national survey, we measure both typical d...

AIMS Animal experiments have shown that the endocannabinoid system (ECS) plays an important role in the regulation of ethanol intake. We investigated these effects in healthy volunteers who consumed a moderate amount of ethanol (red wine) and measured plasma levels of the endocannabinoids (ECs) anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol (2-AG) to test whether alcohol consumption influences the...

Alcohol consumption and drinking habits among Finnish doctors were studied as part of a survey of stress and burnout. A questionnaire containing 99 questions or groups of questions was sent to all 3496 practising doctors aged under 66 randomly selected from the registry of the Finnish Medical Association. Altogether 2671 doctors (76%) responded; this sample was representative of the Finnish med...