Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drinking alcohol impacts everyone a little differently. Musculature, water, genes, tobacco use, and other factors change an ...

Even mild drinking is toxic to the body, contributing to long-term disease. Yet in many cases you can reverse that damage, experts say.

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Alcohol use leads to earlier brain aging and impaired behavioral flexibility, with those effects detectable even among adults in their 20s and 30s, according to an innovative study. Hazardous drinking ...

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Mindfulness experts often urge us to focus on the present: Live in the moment rather than worry about what you said yesterday or what you might have to deal with three months from now. Still, that ...

Repeated alcohol use can have several lasting effects on a person’s brain beyond the temporary intoxication experienced during drinking. A combination of chemical, structural, and behavioral changes ...

Researchers at Tufts University School of Medicine and Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences have found a surprising connection between a fungus associated with alcohol use disorder and the ...

For the new study, researchers recruited more than 300 college students, all of whom said they had previously engaged in heavy drinking and blackout drinking. Heavy drinking was d ...

There are only a few molecules that humans consume that are both a nutrient and a drug. Coffee and alcohol are two excellent examples. The antioxidants in coffee offer many health benefits, while the ...

University of Sydney researchers suggest alcohol may increase a hormone that drives savory-food cravings, leading to ...