About 20% of Americans in the last 30 days have had an episode of heavy drinking. Now, a new study is calling into question the term "functional alcoholic" and taking a closer look at alcohol's real ...

After becoming sober, the body follows a timeline healing: liver regeneration, blood pressure drops, cancer risk reduction ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Los Angeles Times illustration) Serious liver disease is becoming more common among Americans who drink heavily, according to a ...

Among 88,092 participants, with a median follow-up time of 14.5 years, 1,679 colorectal cases occurred, according to the ...

The data indicates that Americans, particularly younger adults, are drinking less alcohol, with the trend reflected in declining sales, reduced spending on alcohol, and shifts in attitudes towards ...

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 ...

For decades, Americans got the message that drinking in moderation might be good for us. While it was clear that heavy or binge drinking carried health risks, the conventional wisdom held that there ...

Think your “just one drink” night out with friends isn’t doing any harm to your health? Think again. When that “just one drink to unwind” extends into several nights, the result can be more than a ...

There is a lot of advice out there about how much alcohol one should drink. There is research suggesting that drinking could be dangerous, and research that indicates drinking is good for you. Which ...

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.