Drinking habits of parents significantly affects their children's future alcohol habits, and as well as their perception of parenting, a new study shows.

Experts from the Virginia Commonwealth University drew their findings from an experiment involving teenagers, 2,402 males and 2,329 females in Finland, as well as their parents. The scientists asked the teenagers about their alcohol use and intoxication experiences during the ages of 14, and 17.5

Heavy drinking in college is sometimes the result of a socially anxious student using alcohol to cope. That type of social drinking has not been studied much, researchers at the University of Arkansas say.

Researchers attempted to analyze data from college students to understand what motivated them to drink

Alcoholics with depression are less likely to stay sober, according to researchers at the Minneapolis Veterans Administration Medical Center.

The researchers documented the quitting success of 462 people who tried to give up alcohol and cigarettes simultaneously. All participants received intensive alcohol and smoking cessation treatment

A new study on alcoholism using fruit flies could be more fun from the fly's perspective.

Unknown numbers of science and medical students have used and abused the lowly fruit fly for any number of experiments and studies that couldn't have been much fun for the flies

According to a Decision Resources report pharmaceutical and healthcare industry analysts predict that the Chinese hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC; the most prevalent type of primary liver cancer) market will quadruple between 2006 and 2011. The report also finds that the small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors will dominate the Chinese HCC market through 2011 because of the superior efficacy and safety profiles of these agents.

The findings were a part of an emerging markets study entitled Liver Cancer in China. Both financial and medical specialists for Decision Resources forecast that the growth in this industry in China will be fueled by increasing access to medical care, increased sales of existing therapies, and the introduction of novel targeted agents