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(University of Rochester Medical Center) New research shows that patterns of alcohol consumption - a drink or two every night, or several cocktails on Friday and Saturday nights only - may be more important in determining alcohol's influence on heart health than the total amount consumed.

Scientists found that daily moderate drinking - the equivalent of two drinks per day, seven days a week - decreased atherosclerosis in mice, while binge drinking - seven drinks a day, two days a week - increased atherosclerosis.

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

(Indiana University) A multi-tiered effort designed to stem binge drinking at a large university and to change the campus drinking culture produced notable results during a 2.5-year Indiana University study.

Freshmen living on campus showed significant drops in the average number of drinks consumed in a week; in the percentage who drank at least once a week in the last year; and in the proportion of students who engaged in binge drinking in the previous week.

(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.

More Americans are bellying up to the bar: Binge drinking consuming five or more drinks in a day is on the rise, according to a new study on the nations drinking habits reported on CNN.com.

(Loyola University Health System) Binge-drinking teenagers may be putting themselves at risk for future osteoporosis and bone fractures.

(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Heavy alcohol use and binge drinking could increase the risk of pancreatic cancer in men, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center suggests.

Public service announcements aimed at shaming college students out of binge drinking may only send them back to the bottle, says a significant new study.

(Springer) Young men who believe that happiness declines with age are more likely to engage in risky health behaviors such as binge drinking.

Their misguided negative view of the aging process may act as a disincentive to behave 'sensibly' and encourage them to make the most of the present in anticipation of 'miserable' old age.

These findings by researchers at Queen's University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, are published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies.

(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.