NEW: Today, I’m releasing a Surgeon General’s Advisory on the causal link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. Alcohol is the 3rd leading preventable cause of cancer in the U.S., contributing to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year.

Did you know #alcohol is a class 1 carcinogen, & is not safe?🤯 Despite this, alcohol remains strongly mixed into medical culture & is often served FREE at medical community events! This presents numerous ethical concerns…NEW HC Report essay, bit.ly/4a74EFg #bioethics

#OurAMA applauds the Surgeon General’s work to make completely clear the link between alcohol consumption and increased cancer risk. Read more: spr.ly/6013vSmcN

Check out this essay my colleagues and I published on the role of alcohol in the medical community! Very timely given the U.S. Surgeon General advisory on #alcohol and #cancer

Interested in the intersection between alcohol policy and FASD? Join us for our Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation and Implications for FASD webinar. ➡️ When: February 5th at 1:00pm EST ➡️ Registration link: ow.ly/FEuO50UJEFe #AlcoholPolicy #FASD Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (CEWH)

So excited for this all-star intern crew to join us in June!! Huge congratulations on a fantastic and well-deserved #match2025! 🎉

Congratulations to the next generation of physicians who matched to residency programs today at Mayo Clinic and across the nation. I hope you’ll continue to embrace the opportunities ahead as you shape the future of patient care. #Match2025

Three years ago, the CAPE Community of Practice was just an idea. Today, it’s a thriving network of 600+ members advancing alcohol policy across Canada. Could this be a model for public health collaboration? Read our blog for more info: ias.org.uk/2025/03/27/an-… Elizabeth Farkouh, MD, MS

Congratulations to all students graduating this month across our campuses. Your skills, dedication, and hard work will contribute to the future of healthcare, where your expertise will bring new innovations and cures to patients around the world.

BIG RED CHAMPS 🐻 For the first time since 1977, Cornell has won the NCAA men's lacrosse national championship! 🏆

timely reporting by Isa Cueto on alarming rise in ALD deaths + demo shifts ALD & AUD share common denominator: alcohol yet etoh is absent from national chronic dz strategy & drug policy our health will always just be a consideration, never a priority, if etoh left out

"The #AMA’s resolution represents an important milestone towards common sense, consumer friendly #alcohol reforms." Thomas Gremillion, Director of Food Policy consumerfed.org/press_release/…

Alcohol is the third leading cause of cancer deaths in North America. The World Health Organization has explicitly stated that “no level of alcohol consumption is safe for cancer risk.” Cigarettes come with warning labels — so why doesn’t alcohol?

This commentary is an inaugural piece of a series aiming to highlight published works from students who participated in structured longitudinal research during medical school and reflect on the elements they took away from their endeavors. mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-…

Our new study demonstrates how #alcohol minimum pricing policies not only reduce alcohol harms at the population level, but address health inequities with relatively few unintended consequences #MUP #HealthEquity James Clay, PhD authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S09…

In a recent review, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and colleagues found that despite known harms, stigmatizing language is still being widely used in media. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.drug… Wei Zhang MD PHD Elizabeth Farkouh, MD, MS

The biggest winners from #MUP? 🏆 The most vulnerable and heaviest drinkers. Yet more evidence that #MUP drives down health inequities caused by alcohol according to a new rapid evidence review from Canada sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Alcohol minimum unit price saves lives. It’s also targeted at the most vulnerable and heaviest drinkers. Time to put people’s lives before industry profits and introduce in England Wes Streeting Keir Starmer

🆕IARC Evidence Summary Brief on #Alcohol🍺🍷🍸: a major preventable cause of #cancer. In this Brief, IARC synthesizes evidence on the burden of cancer due to alcohol, its economic impact, & effective interventions, with a clear call for policy action📢🏦. iarc.who.int/news-events/al…

Presented at #KidneyWk: In the PISCES trial involving participants receiving hemodialysis, fish oil (n−3 fatty acids) was compared with corn-oil placebo. The rate of serious cardiovascular events was lower with daily fish-oil supplementation. Full trial results: