Good (health) news for wine drinkers

Purple pager Oliver James, Head of School Clinical Medical Sciences, Newcastle University sent this heartening news recently.

I am dropping you a note to put you ahead of the pack in respect of a new study from one of the gurus of cardiovascular epidemiology Al Klatsky. In this month's issue of The American Journal of Epidemiology <2003 158 285-295> in a paper called 'Wine, Liquor, Beer, and Mortality' they have dissected the mortality risks associated with the three beverage types in a huge group.

The bottom line of a long and complex paper is that wine drinking is associated with...