Analyzing data from more than half a million adults in the U.S. and U.K., researchers found that even light drinking was ...

Alcoholic cardiomyopathy (ACM) is a heart disease that occurs due to chronic alcohol consumption. It is a type of dilated cardiomyopathy since it involves dilation or enlargement of one of the heart’s ...

When I finally stopped drinking after half a century, I discovered that abstinence has physical and mental rewards, even when ...

There's mounting evidence that popular drugs prescribed for diabetes management and weight loss—better known by trade names ...

Alcohol-induced psychosis can happen after intoxication, during withdrawal, or it can be chronic among people living with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Here’s what it looks like. Alcohol is a ...

Although substances like tobacco have reputations for being highly carcinogenic, or having the potential to cause cancer, recent studies have shown that alcohol has also been increasingly linked to ...

Chronic and heavy alcohol use leads to gut inflammation, which increases the risk of stomach cancer. Stomach cancer, a serious condition characterized by the growth of malignant cells in the stomach ...

Alcohol-associated liver disease is becoming a massive health and economic burden, but researchers at UC San Diego may have uncovered a new way forward. They discovered that chronic alcohol use blocks ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A brief intervention reduced the frequency of alcohol use by 40% among high-risk teens with chronic medical ...

Scientists have now discovered how alcohol can switch off an immune "alarm system" in the gut, allowing bad bacteria to escape their natural habitat to flood into the liver, rapidly causing ...

Contrary to popular belief, chronic pancreatitis caused by alcohol consumption occurs at much lower rates compared to other causes, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology ...