A new study led by the University of Sydney has found that up to one in 28 Australians – or roughly one child per classroom – may be living with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), a potentially p...

Sabine Naudin and colleagues leverage individual-level data from 30 prospective cohorts from four continents to examine the association between alcohol intake and pancreatic cancer risk.

Media authority mulls revised code of practice proposed by Free TV Australia which expands daytime hours when M programming is permitted * Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free weekly media newsletter here Free-to-air broadcasters want classification rules changed to allow an additional 800 hours of alcohol ads every year despite one in three children already being exposed to liquor commercials on television. Despite laws banning alcohol marketing during children’s viewing hours, broadcasters have a “sports loophole” in their code of practice which permits the airing of alcohol ads during televised sporting events. Sign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletter Continue reading...

Introduction This study examines trends in admissions for alcohol-related liver disease (ALD) for Australian men and women between 1993 and 2020 and disaggregates these trends into age, period and c.....