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Teenagers who binge drink could be damaging the part of their brain which controls memory and spatial awareness, says research from Stanford University.

(MedPage Today) -- More than one in four high school students and adults ages 18 to 34 reported binge drinking in the past month, according to officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), who said the new data represent a serious public health problem.

(Brigham Young University) A new study in the Journal of American College Health finds that students placed by their universities in coed housing are 2.5 times more likely to binge drink each week than students placed in all-male or all-female housing.

The following will appear in the May 16 issue of The Lancet:

United stakes In a momentous show of unity, US President Barack Obama and leading figures in the country’s health-care industry stood together at the White House on Monday to pledge their commitment to health-care reform.

Insurance, pharmaceutical, and hospital executives, and the President-Elect of the American Medical Association, committed to decreasing the annual growth in health-care spending by 1·5%, thus saving US$2 trillion over 10 years.