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...deaths around the world is caused by alcohol consumption, and booze is now as damaging to global health as tobacco was a decade ago, according to a new study in the British medical journal the Lancet...
...last global statistical analysis of the damage caused by alcohol, undertaken in 2000, found that 3.2% of deaths worldwide were the result of alcohol consumption. The new study, part of the Lancet's "Alcohol and Global Health" series published last Saturday, used the same statistical tools as the previous one, and found that for 2004 the figure had increased 0.6%. Alcohol-related causes of death include accidents, violence, poisoning, mouth and throat cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, suicide, stroke and many others. (See how to prevent illness...
Fire is one of the leading causes of death among young women in India - but you wouldn't know it by looking at government statistics. Or so says a study published in the British medical journal The Lancet. By examining census figures, death certificates from urban hospitals and "verbal autopsy" reports from rural communities, three researchers from Cambridge, Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University estimated that more than 100,000 women were killed by fires in a single year - more than six times the number reported by police. The study also found that young women were three times as likely...
...think twice. There is currently a growing movement to link the MMR vaccine with autism, yet the scientific community has already widely dismissed the claim that the vaccine causes autism. The original connection between the vaccine and autism was raised in a paper published in the British journal, The Lancet. After it was discovered, however, that the main author of the study had received funding from British trial lawyers seeking the evidence he eventually produced, 10 of the paper’s 12 co-authors redacted their contributions, and the scientific community as a whole discredited the study. As such...
...research underscores the fact that the most common type of child abuse in developed countries - simple neglect - is often the least publicized. The Lancet analysis finds that neglect is the No. 1 category of maltreatment reported by child-protective services. "We have paid much more attention to physical and sexual abuse. We have called people's attention to it. Even though neglect is the largest portion of cases, it's under everybody's radar," Widom says. "And yet we know that neglected children are at as high a risk as physically abused kids for becoming violent offenders, for example...