Planning for the new year offers the perfect opportunity to explore reducing consumption or pulling alcoholic beverages off ...

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 ...

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If you are a daily drinker you may feel a bit worse to start with while your body adjusts to not having alcohol in its system ...

When the mom, dad or both parents drink, the health risks of alcohol extends to their future offspring. Robert Daly/OJO Images via Getty Images The conditions within a person’s home, family and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alcohol-related liver injury is characterized by oxidative stress, leading to lipid peroxidation and steatosis, increased iron deposits, hepatocyte damage, and cell death leading to the release of ...