The caffeine in coffee can raise blood sugar temporarily. But that's not the full picture. Learn how coffee affects blood sugar in the longer term, plus what you can do to dodge those short-term ...

For decades, we have heard that excessive drinking creates liver disease that is mostly irreversible. However, the exact mechanisms through which alcohol accelerates liver damage remained unclear to ...

Our national health scold, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, issued an advisory on his way out of office, asserting that drinking beer, wine, and liquor is "a leading preventable cause of cancer in the ...

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Drinking eight or more alcoholic beverages each week could have a damaging effect on the brain, according to a new study published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of ...

Dr. Bedard is a physician and writes about medicine and criminal justice. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s recent advisory that drinking alcohol raises the risk of cancer is something of a gamble. It’s ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are associated with ...

You head out for a fun night, only to find yourself hugging the toilet bowl a few hours later. Throwing up after drinking is more than just a messy hangover symptom; it is your body’s way of sending a ...

One in 10 deaths in working-age adults may be caused by excessive alcohol consumption, according to a new study released Tuesday by the CDC. That means about 88,000 people die a year from the effects ...

Excessive drinking is blamed for 10 percent of all the deaths among working-age adults in this country. One of the authors behind this new research describes the statistic as "shocking." The lives of ...