A recent study performed in England and Wales suggests that people born in spring or early summer are at a higher risk for suicide, according to BBC News.

The study, which examined 26,916 suicide cases, found that babies born in April, May or June had a 17% greater chance of killing themselves than those born in the autumn

A study of ultrasounds on pregnant women finds that heavy drinkers who continue to hit the sauce after learning they are pregnant may carry fetuses with reduced skull and brain growth compared to those of abstainers or quitters.

Despite the alcohol-exposed babies' growth remaining within the normal range, the findings published in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research finds that drinking has limiting drain development affects

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Dr. Holger J. Sorenson and colleagues at Copenhagen University and the U.S. studied the relationship between short duration of breast-feeding and alcoholism, taking into account the environmental and familial factors

U.S. health regulators on Thursday approved a new version of a drug to treat alcoholism that needs to be taken only once a month by injection.

Alkermes Inc. and Cephalon Inc. said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved their drug, Vivitrol, an injectable form of naltrexone administered monthly to help control cravings for alcohol

Another study gives further reasons to quit smoking. The reports shows tobacco-related addiction inhibits the brain's ability to recover from the effects of chronic alcohol abuse.

Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center found that after one month of sobriety, recovering alcoholics who smoked showed significantly less improvement than those who did not smoke in both brain function and neurochemical markers of brain cell health