More than 5% of all cancer cases are caused by drinking alcohol, according to a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research. An addition specialist discusses the risk.
Drinking can be a fun way to socialize, but few people talk about a very common aftereffect of sipping adult beverages: diarrhea. We'll tell you what causes diarrhea after drinking alcohol and who...
most of which had not been identified as having drinking-related outcomes by the World Health... whether alcohol is a cause of some of the other newly identified alcohol-associated diseases...
Dr Karl › Dr Karl's Great Moments In ScienceWe humans have been making and drinking alcohol for thousands of years. It's a strange liquid. We can use it as a fuel or germ-killer, use it...
This condition is due to drinking large amounts of alcohol in a short time. It is serious and can be deadly. Here's what to do in an emergency.
This meta-analysis provides strong evidence for an association between alcohol drinking of >1 drink/day and colorectal cancer risk.
Worldwide, around 2.6 million deaths were caused by alcohol consumption in 2019. Of these, 1.6 million deaths were from noncommunicable diseases, 700 000 deaths from injuries and 300 000 deaths from communicable diseases. The alcohol-attributable mortality was heaviest among men, accounting for 2 million deaths compared to 600 000 deaths among women, in 2019. An estimated 400 million people, or 7% of the world’s population ...
If you suffer from migraines, you may find that drinking alcohol can trigger an episode. Find out why alcoholic drinks can cause problems for migraine sufferers and what you can do to...
A new observational study from the University of Oxford has found that there is no level of alcohol consumption that is considered "safe" for brain health. The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, studied the relationship between self-reported alcohol consumption in about 25,000 U.K. residents and the amount of gray matter in their brain scans. Researchers determined that alcohol consumption "was linearly negatively associated with global brain gray matter volume" — meaning that even small amounts of alcohol intake correlated to less ...
The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of an average volume of alcohol consumption and drinking patterns on all-cause mortality. The sample (n = 5,072) was drawn from the 1984 N...