In a promising development for public health, researchers have found that pairing two very straightforward messages can significantly reduce how much alcohol people drink: pointing out alcohol’s link ...

Most people know that smoking causes cancer and that there's no "safe" number of cigarettes that are OK to smoke. But not everyone knows the same is true of alcohol. Alcohol is a carcinogen and ...

Alcohol use disorder is a major cause of disease and premature death worldwide. For people with chronic liver disease (CLD), there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. Yet many patients with this ...

Mammals—including great apes and monkeys as well as early humans—began consuming alcohol from fermented fruit long before humans developed methods to distill alcohol. It is therefore not surprising ...

Researchers analyzed data from tens of thousands of people who used low-cost mobile breathalyzers to test their blood-alcohol concentration when drinking. The analysis revealed that the repeated use ...