When it comes to your beverage of choice, alcoholic beverages are unique. For millions, they are a regular part of the dining experience.
It’s a well-established fact that drinking alcohol makes people more aggressive. For instance, 19 out of 20 acts of violence on a college campus involve alcohol consumption.
Research on alcohol consumption is in a pickle. There’s no question that pounding one drink after another is bad for your health.
Alcohol is a drink taken by people for recreation, to relieve stress and celebrate — various reasons for centuries.
A new study shows that abstinence from alcohol is linked to dementia. The study titled, “Alcohol consumption and risk of dementia: 23 year follow-up of Whitehall II cohort study,” results appear in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal.
Alcohol increases the mortality of young but not old mice infected with the tuberculosis-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and this effect is mediated by the production of a protein called interferon-alpha (IFN-α).
To drink or not to drink when it comes to your health really depends on a few important factors, including how much you imbibe and what health issues you’re concerned about.
(CNN)Children's exposure to alcohol through breast milk may cause a comparable drop in their cognitive abilities, according to a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- While the majority of Americans (55%) think that drinking in moderation makes no difference to their health, the percentage who say it is bad for one's health outweighs those who say it is good, 28% to 16%.
Deaths from drugs, alcohol, and suicide are driving the first reductions in life expectancy in the United States in the past two decades.