Monthly Archives: March 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is introducing new words and phrases to our daily vocabularies. It’s also forcing us to rediscover the meaning of concepts that we haven’t used regularly for decades – or, in some cases, centuries. The phrase “social distancing” wasn’t exactly part of the lexicon until recent weeks. Now we’re … Read More

According to a new study reported in the journal JAMA Network Open, the rate of alcohol-induced deaths among women increased between 3.1% and 3.6% a year from 2000 to 2016. Deaths for men increased 1.4% to 1.8% each year. Statistics report that the rates have particularly accelerated in recent years, with the average annual increase for … Read More