There are approximately 100,000 alcohol-related cancer cases annually in the U.S. and 20,000 deaths due to alcohol-related cancer, according to an HHS press release.This is one of the many tipping ...

When you drink alcohol, the brain ramps up the release of a chemical called gamma-aminobutyric acid, or GABA, which helps us ...

Rutgers Health researchers have discovered that brain immune cells from people with a high genetic risk for alcohol use disorder (AUD) behave differently than cells from low-risk people when exposed ...

The newest treatment for AUD, acamprosate (Campral) was developed in France. The FDA approved the drug for abstinence maintenance in detoxified alcoholics 21 years ago, in 2004. Acamprosate restores ...

A recent study published in JAMA Psychiatry has uncovered promising evidence suggesting that glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists, particularly semaglutide and liraglutide, may be ...

Nikki Crowley receives funding from The National Institutes of Health. Alcohol is the third-most preventable cause of cancer in the U.S, putting it just behind tobacco and obesity. As the surgeon ...

Alcohol can compound health issues that are common in middle age, like blood sugar problems or high blood pressure. Even a drink or two can temporarily raise a person’s heart rate, for example ...

Some analyses have combined data from multiple studies to report estimates of how many cases of cancer are tied to drinking alcohol. For example, alcohol contributed to an estimated 54,000 cancer ...