Young to middle-aged women who reported drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages per week—more than one per day, on average—were significantly more likely to develop coronary heart disease compared ...

Excessive drinking is on the rise for midlife women. For decades, data indicated that men were more likely than women to develop alcohol use disorders (AUDs) like binge-drinking. While that still ...

Serious liver disease is becoming more common among Americans who drink heavily, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. It's not that more people are partying with alcohol. And it's not ...

Past-month binge drinking between 2021 and 2023 was higher among young adult women than among men, reversing a recent period. However, men still drank more heavily than women overall. Researchers ...

The brain circuits that underlie alcohol craving and heavy drinking share some similarities between men and women, but also some key differences, a new Yale study reveals. Using functional magnetic ...

Heavy drinkers today are over twice as likely as two decades ago to develop serious liver disease. The study analyzed national health data and defined heavy drinking as eight drinks per week for women ...

Heavy drinking spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic and continued to rise in the years that followed, new research shows. Drinking rates also spiked more among women than men. The number of women who ...

A study published in Addiction indicated that women who drink heavily are more at risk of becoming pregnant than those who drink moderately or use cannabis. Study participants who are heavy drinkers ...

Consuming at least eight alcoholic drinks per week was associated with a 133% higher risk for hyaline arteriosclerosis, a brain lesion associated with memory and thinking problems, than not drinking, ...

Los Angeles — Serious liver disease is becoming more common among Americans who drink heavily, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. It's not that more people are partying with alcohol.