A new study has linked low levels of high density lipoproteins (HDL) or the good cholesterol in middle age to the risk of memory loss that can lead to dementia later in life.

Researchers at University College London and the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research (the French equivalent of the U.S. National Institutes of health) conducted by Dr. Archana Singh-Manoux measured good HDL cholesterol levels of 3,673 55-year-old British civil servants and asked them to memorize 20 words as part of short-term memory test

A man died here Tuesday evening after drinking 23 shots of vodka in 30 minutes, Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies said.

Eric Morris, 26, was with a friend at the Angels Show Bar, a topless bar on U.S. Hwy. 92. He and his friend ordered shots of Burnett's Cherry Vodka and started playing a drinking game, according to sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway

Over the past two years, drunken driving arrests made by the Massachusetts State Police have risen by 70 percent. The numbers have steadily increased from 2,869 in 2005 to 3,860 in 2006 and up to 4,879 in 2007.

Col. Mark Delaney, head of the State Police, attributed the higher number of DUI arrests to the addition of sobriety checkpoints from 14 in 2005 to 82 in 2007 and extra efforts exerted by law enforcers

The Home Office has launched advertisements to warn 18- to 24-year-olds about the consequences of binge drinking.

The TV ad that says "You wouldn't start a night like this, so why end it that way?" shows a young man injuring himself, being violent, urinating on his shoes and pouring a takeaway meal on his shirt just before he was about to go out

Drinking up to six cups of caffeinated or decaffeinated coffee daily is associated with a somewhat smaller rate of death from heart disease, a new study shows.

Raising doubts about the old myth that coffee is associated with increased deaths in men or women, the new study finds that both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee consumption is actually beneficial for health