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Alcohol

Chief Medical Officer's letter on alcohol guidelines evidence

DHSC Media Team, 22 January 2016 - Alcohol, Chief Medical Officer

The Chief Medical Officer has responded to a letter on the new alcohol guidelines from Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter, President-Elect of the Royal Statistical Society. The text of her letter is below.

Drinking any alcohol raises risk of cancer, warn UK Chief Medical Officers

DHSC Media Team, 11 January 2016 - Alcohol, Cancer, Chief Medical Officer, Public Health

Dame Sally Davies and fellow UK Chief Medical Officers have published new guidelines for alcohol consumption and warn that drinking any level of alcohol raises the risk of a range of cancers.

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