Ethyl alcohol is a food, a drug, and a poison, depending on how it is used. Alcohol use can be socially and medically beneficial, a lubricant of human interactions and an extender of life. [1] Alcohol ...

Analyzing data from more than half a million adults in the U.S. and U.K., researchers found that even light drinking was ...

Although substances like tobacco have reputations for being highly carcinogenic, or having the potential to cause cancer, recent studies have shown that alcohol has also been increasingly linked to ...

Scientists have now discovered how alcohol can switch off an immune "alarm system" in the gut, allowing bad bacteria to escape their natural habitat to flood into the liver, rapidly causing ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (WGHP) — The North ...