BACKGROUND In Southeast Asia, hundreds of thousands of young rural women migrate from their villages to the larger cities in search of work. Many find employment with beer companies or in the clubs where beer is sold, promoting the sale of beer. Previous research suggests these young migrants are in a highly vulnerable position. This paper will describe the findings of an October 2009 meeting t...

Support for a number of strategies and policies for the prevention of alcohol related harm was ascertained as part of a larger survey of public attitudes and behaviours in a representative sample of the Perth metropolitan area. Support for these policies varied, but was generally positive, with young male drinkers the least supportive. The greatest degree of support was found for a variety of t...

Serum homocysteine increases after moderate consumption of red wine and spirits, not after moderate consumption of beer. Vitamin B6 in beer seems to prevent the alcohol-induced rise in serum homocysteine.

The consequences for the process of spoken word recognition of changes-inprogress in the sound system of New Zealand English are investigated in a semantic priming experiment. For example, semantic associates of both beer (ie. wine) and bear (ie. hug) are facilitated after subjects have heard [bi\], while only hug is primed by [be\]. This result reflects the asymmetry found in speech production...

OBJECTIVES To examine the effectiveness of a quality improvement program to decrease prescribing of high-risk medications. DESIGN Single cohort, pre- and postintervention. SETTING Regional network of Department of Veterans Affairs medical facilities. PARTICIPANTS Outpatient veterans aged 65 and older who received one or more high-risk medications and the prescribing clinicians. INTERVEN...

BACKGROUND Medication toxic effects and drug-related problems can have profound medical and safety consequences for older adults and economically affect the health care system. The purpose of this initiative was to revise and update the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in adults 65 years and older in the United States. METHODS This study used a modified Delphi metho...

BACKGROUND A reduction in mortality associated with wine drinking compared to beer drinking has been suggested in the past. A recent meta-analysis could not confirm the observed differential effect. Other characteristics not related to specific components of beer and wine must play a role in the relationship between wine and mortality, thereby explaining the differential protective results. M...

This work attempts to measure the importance of methional and phenylacetaldehyde on the flavor stability of beer, as direct participants or as indicators of aroma deterioration. A trained sensory panel identified the most important descriptors related to the typical aroma of aged beer: "malty", "honey-like", "cooked potato", and "metallic". By GC-olfactometry analysis, six aromatic zones relate...