A recent social media phenomenon has sparked debate over alcohol’s potential role in preventing foodborne illness. The claim, suggesting that drinking hard liquor after consuming questionable ...

Hard liquor is more harmful than beer or wine, especially when it’s drunk straight, he says. The dangers of drinking too much ...

And while alcohol-use disorder has fallen in both sexes in the past decade, the decline is more pronounced in men. Many groups of women are drinking more Unlike hard drugs, alcohol is generally ...

Many people think higher-proof hard liquor may be damaging to health but that beer and wine are benign. “Alcohol is alcohol,” Dr. Hay says. “Increased risk is based on how much you drink, not what ...

(A standard drink is 12 ounces of beer containing 5% alcohol, 5 ounces of wine, or 1½ ounces of hard liquor.) All the studies in the report come with some uncertainty: Scientists can’t ...