A doctor explains what the latest research on alcohol teaches us about its effects on physical health and mental health; ...

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 ...

Alcohol use was dose-dependently related to risk for breast, colorectal, and liver cancers, as well as obesity and diabetes.

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 ...

Chronic alcohol abuse causes a profound deficiency of the antioxidant glutathione in the lungs, generating a marked susceptibility to serious lung diseases, according to research at Emory University ...

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A new study has shown that alcohol intake can interfere with the natural regenerative abilities of the liver. Alcohol can keep cells in a kind of limbo between a functional or regenerative state, even ...

One of the main physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is 'allodynia' -- increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli that are normally innocuous, which is a clinical sign of chronic pain. In a new ...

Officials have an idea of what caused Vincent Jackson to lose his life. It appears the pro football played passed away after he “suffered from chronic alcoholism.” On Wednesday, officials involved ...

Ethyl alcohol is a food, a drug, and a poison, depending on how it is used. Alcohol use can be socially and medically beneficial, a lubricant of human interactions and an extender of life. [1] Alcohol ...

The NFL world suffered a tragic loss on Monday when it was reported that former Chargers and Buccaneers wide receiver Vincent Jackson had been found dead in a hotel room in Tampa. As the days go by, ...

Former NFL wide receiver Vincent Jackson suffered from chronic alcoholism and other health-related problems before being found dead on Monday, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister stated ...