Men who have two drinks a day after surviving a first heart attack have a lower risk of death from heart disease than non-drinkers, Harvard researchers said, adding to evidence that moderate alcohol use may be healthy. Men who survived a heart attack and who drank two alcoholi …
Doctors are testing a drug that could stop alcohol making people drunk. The researchers believe iomazenil, taken before drinking, might negate some of alcohol’s effects on the brain. Tests in a driving simulator will determine whether the drug makes volunteer drinkers s …
Changes are afoot for Munich’s legendary Oktoberfest, as a plan to crack down on binge-drinking, loud live music and endless queuing for seats will be examined by the city council.
Spooked pub-goers claim to have pictured the spirit they say has been haunting their local ale-house for years. Regulars at the Apsley House in Southsea, Hants, say a generous ghoul, believed to be the ghost of a former barman, keeps topping up their drinks.
Nearly four years after National Gypsum shuttered its drywall plant in Lorain, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will reuse the facility on Henderson Drive as a backdrop for his message that President Barack Obama has failed to create jobs. Romney's speech today wi …
Beer makes men smarter. So say researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago. They found that men with a couple beers under their belts were actually better at solving brain-teasers than their sober counterparts.
When a woman arranged to meet her financial adviser in a bar on a Friday night she might have realised it would not be an entirely sober affair. But she could scarcely have expected that she would end up in tears after the adviser, Amanda Daughters, allegedly upbraided her for …
Male fruit flies that have been rejected by females drink significantly more alcohol than those that have mated freely, scientists say.
Inventor Rob Higgs hopes to stop the act of opening a bottle of wine from being a chore with his £100,000 corkscrew made from 300 pieces of scrap metal.
One dose of the hallucinogenic drug LSD could help alcoholics give up drinking, according to an analysis of studies performed in the 1960s. A study, presented in the Journal of Psychopharmacology, looked at data from six trials and more than 500 patients. It said there was a …
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