Leane Ramsoomar receives funding from the South African Medical Research Council. Drinking alcohol is known to be harmful to people’s health. It’s also known to be harmful in other ways. For example, ...

Doctors are warning regular alcohol users of the health risks that come with consuming alcohol. Excessive drinking can have several negative effects on your physical health as it could lead to ...

Heavy drinking students damage their pals' physical and mental health as well as their own, according to new research. The harms of incessant boozing among college students - such as lower grades, ...

Just one episode of binge drinking — consuming four alcoholic drinks in two hours (for women) or five (for men) — can cause serious harm to the body, new research says. In a study aimed to examine ...

We’ve all been there – rushing from work to meet friends for drinks and realizing we haven’t eaten since lunch. Or perhaps deliberately skipping dinner before a night out to feel the effects of ...

A global analysis led by La Trobe University has highlighted the hidden harms to women and children caused by men's alcohol use and calls for urgent gender-responsive and alcohol policy action ...

Researchers have developed and tested an intervention called Counter-Attitudinal Advocacy and compared it to to the well-established Personalized Normative Feedback (PNF) to evaluate their ...

New research says that just one episode of binge drinking can impact the intestinal lining, causing “leaky gut” syndrome Getty Binge drinking can damage the lining of the intestine, allowing harmful ...