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Pre-drinking amongst middle-aged adults causes serious health risk  - It means adults are routinely downing 14 units of alcohol – a bottle and a half of wine – in an evening by drinking in multiple locations, a study found. This is their maximum limit for the entire week as set out in NHS guidelines.

One in 10 Scottish kids suffering from mental health problems  - CAMPAIGNERS are calling for the next Scottish Government to improve the services available for children with mental health problems after it was ...

How big data is helping us understand mental illness  - Jen Hyatt will be speaking at WIRED Health 2016 on April 29 in London. From helping humans live longer and hacking our performance, to repairing ...

Decline in violent crime ends as attacks against older people rise  - A steady seven-year decline in serious violent crime in England and Wales has come to an end with a significant increase in attacks against people  ...

Loneliness can trigger heart disease and strokes  - Caroline Abrahams, charity director at Age UK , said: "Not only does ... "We know that lonely older people are more likely to suffer health problems and ...

Queen Elizabeth II at 90: does old age affect a monarch's ability to reign?  - The Newcastle 85+ study of about 1,000 men and women which is roughly representative of the population of the UK found that about 90% of ...

Iraqi families sell organs to overcome poverty  - Om Hussein is a mother close to breaking point. Along with her husband and their four young children, she is struggling with poverty like millions of ...

Young women risk pension poverty , says Fawcett Society  - Women aged in their 20s and 30s are risking poverty in retirement by cutting contributions as they pay for childcare, a think tank says. The Fawcett ...

LGBT+ Education Saves Lives, So Why Aren't We Talking About It?  - A group of Year 6 pupils frankly discussed lesbian , gay , bisexual and ... of sexual orientation and gender identity that are present in the UK . It's this ...

Viola Davis says she will “fight” for LGBT rights  - Emmy-winning actress Viola Davis has promised to fight for the rights of LGBT families. During a red carpet appearance at the Tribeca Film Festival, ...

Fewer parents would reject LGBTI kids if there was more outreach  - The Grammy winner, who opened a homeless shelter in New York City for LGBTI youth in 2011, thinks more attention and resources needs to be ...

Protests in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne against Christian Lobby Conference  - The group and its lawyers are notorious for standing in the way of LGBTI progress and are involved in keeping gay sex criminalised internationally.

Victoria to open first LGBTI centre  - The government will put $15 million towards the Pride Centre, which will be bigger than San Francisco's LGBTI Community Centre. The final design ...

Gov't manifesto ignores foreigners, LGBTI community  - Further, the government completely ignores LGBTI community despite the fact that Slovak acceptance of this community is among the lowest in EU, ...

The UK is now warning people about going to North Carolina and Mississippi over anti- LGBTI laws  - There is specific guidance for LGBTI travelers for places like Russia, noting the country's 'gay propaganda' law, and Turkey, where public displays of ...

Belinda Carlisle to Mississippi's governor: 'You are making life hell on earth for many '  - The Go-Go's singer, who has gay son, says she nearly canceled the show but has decided to proceed after talking with various LGBTI groups.

Indigenous man overcame homophobia , co-founds first LGBTQ+ group in Squamish, BC  - In 2014, the Diversity Club at Howe Sound Secondary asked him to speak about his experiences with homophobia . They hold meetings in that very ...

Try being gay for a day  - shows a studied lack of knowledge about the social phenomenon of homophobia , the nature of homosexuality, AND how HIV is spread. Permit me to ...

Who Is Living in the Mormon "Bubble"?  - The mere fact that members in Africa are joining the church does not seem to ... Does Otterson imagine that there are no LGBT people in East Africa or ...

Four Things You Didn't Know Were Homophobic and One You Did  - These days, you don't hear the word "gay" thrown around as a derogatory term. But other everyday expressions have a homophobic history or carry ...

Jair Bolsonaro: Pro-Torture, Anti-Gay and Brazil's Future President?  - Yet homophobia is still a persistent problem. Nearly half of all reported anti-LGBT violence in the world occurs in Brazil, where about one person is ...

Proposals for new 'gay propaganda' laws; Europe worries  - The initiatives aimed at LGBTI people do not stand alone, but take place in an environment where government critics are imprisoned, and ...

Israel government defends 'Imagine London Without Gays' billboard: 'We want people to be furious!'  - Israel has been criticized for spending 11 million sherkels (£2 million, $3 million) on tourism to attract the LGBTI community this year. Activists in Israel ...

Uganda national football manager free after being charged with sodomy  - Edwin Sesange, director of the African LGBTI organization Out and Proud Diamond Group, said: 'We welcome the ruling and appeal to the people of ...