Drinking alcohol can cause temporary increases in blood pressure for several hours. Regular alcohol use can lead to long-term high blood pressure. Alcohol is a diuretic and can cause dehydration and ...

There are a lot of health considerations to take into account when talking about alcohol. The CDC says the body's ability to process alcohol depends on many factors. This includes body size; amount of ...

MILWAUKEE - A new study reveals that long-term alcohol use is linked to higher risks of colorectal cancer. Researchers say those with heavy lifetime alcohol consumption have up to a 91% higher risk of ...

Drinking heavily over many years is linked to a higher risk of colorectal cancer, especially rectal cancer, according to new research tracking U.S. adults for two decades. People who drank heavily ...

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer A new review confirms that alcohol consumption is linked to numerous health conditions, ...

SAN ANTONIO — Excessive alcohol use may be more common than you think, and the results of binge drinking can be disastrous to your overall health. There are four ways a person can drink excessively; ...

Alcoholic cirrhosis is the severe, final stage of alcohol-associated liver disease, resulting from long-term heavy alcohol consumption. The disease involves permanent scarring of the liver, which ...

Even mild drinking is toxic to the body, contributing to long-term disease. Yet in many cases you can reverse that damage, experts say.

After 50, drinking problems can quietly emerge for the first time or return after years of control. Retirement, empty nests, ...

John F. Kelly, PhD, of the Recovery Research Institute and Department of Psychiatry at Mass General Brigham, is the lead author of a paper published in Frontiers in Public Health, "Long-term relapse: ...

For the first time researchers demonstrate in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high amounts ...