This Daily Habit May Cause a Deadly Stroke

Here’s another reason to close out your tab early: Drinking too much alcohol during your middle-age years can raise your future stroke risk, finds new research from the University of South Florida.

In the study, “heavy” drinkers—defined as people who downed more than two beverages a day—had a 34 percent greater risk of stroke during the 43-year follow-up than those who consumed less than half a drink a day.

That third daily cocktail increased the participants’ stroke risk even more than diabetes or high blood pressure did, at least until they hit the age of 75.

The Deadly Cancer That Grows for Two Decades

This news could leave you gasping: Lung cancer—which kills more people than any other cancer—can develop slowly for 20 years before it becomes aggressive enough to detect, finds new research from University College London.

Scientists studied 25 regions of seven lung tumors surgically removed from patients. They found that certain genetic mutations occur early in a tumor’s development, probably as a result of carcinogen exposure, especially in smokers and ex-smokers. Later—likely years later—a DNA-editing protein called APOBEC mutates DNA within the tumor, and that’s when the cancer really starts to progress, says study author Elza De Bruin, Ph.D.