News tagged with alcohol poisoning

Checklist keeps you, loved ones safe, happy this holiday season

From overeating to exercise and alcohol, UC San Diego Health System nutritionists, trauma specialists and poison experts offer insights for a health holiday.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

What's the best hangover cure? Truth be told, there isn't one

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the holiday party season at hand, UNC's Dr. James C. Garbutt offers these tips about how to enjoy a few drinks responsibly -- while sparing yourself and those around you from the potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 1.6 / 5 (5) | comments 15




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Venom tears: Snake bites can turn out to be groovy

Many people worry about the manner of their death. Death by car accident, death by cancer and death by gunshot are some of the more dreaded ways to go. No less awful is the prospect of death by snakebite. ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 13, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Bugs emerge to bug us, and a few pose health risks

(AP) -- It's that time of year when the bugs emerge to bug us.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers find social hookah smoking packs a carbon monoxide punch

A new University of Florida study shows that patrons leaving hookah cafés had carbon monoxide levels more than three times higher than patrons exiting traditional bars.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers discuss sugar's highs, lows

America's growing sweet tooth is super-sizing waistlines and the nation's health care price tag, warn University of California researchers. People in the U.S. are eating 21 times more sweet stuff today than the pilgrims and ...

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created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Alcohol consumption after age 75 associated with lower risk of developing dementia

3202 German individuals (75+) attending general practitioners , who were free of dementia were studied at baseline, were followed up 1.5 years and 3 years later by means of structured clinical interviews including detailed ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Mercury thermometers face final phase out

The mercury thermometer, long a fixture in household medicine cabinets and industrial settings, is going the way of the horse and buggy. The reason: Mercury released into the environment from a broken thermometer ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 4

China workers poisoned at iPhone factory: company

More than 130 workers at a Chinese factory making touch screens for Apple iPhones were poisoned by a toxic chemical in 2009, the Taiwanese company said Thursday.

Technology / Business

created Feb 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Apple reports labor, safety problems at suppliers

(AP) -- Apple Inc. says its audits found labor, safety and other abuses by its suppliers in 2010, though it praised Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn for saving lives through its handling of a spate of suicides at its factories ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Longevinex exhibits L-shaped safety curve for first time in resveratrol biology

It was Paracelsus, the Renaissance physician (1493-1541 A.D.) who first said "the dose makes the poison." So, you can drink too much wine, or ingest too much resveratrol, but in an unprecedented study, heart researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 30, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Cancer patients five times more likely to develop listeria

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester and Health Protection Agency researchers have shown that cancer patients have a five-fold increased risk of developing listeria than people with other underlying conditions.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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