Alcohol can increase your risk of cancer, but it can also prevent some heart attacks. Here's the complicated truth.

It's the long-term effects of acetaldehyde on the body that scientists are most concerned about: the potential for DNA damage, chronic inflammation, liver scarring, heart disease. People with the ...

After a month of sobriety with Dry January, many are embracing Wet February, leading to increased alcohol consumption.

Increasingly, reports like these conclude there is no safe level of drinking. Even moderate consumption—no more than one ...

The apparent synergism in the initial reinforcing effects of nicotine and acetaldehyde shown here may be a critical factor in the initiation of smoking. Acetaldehyde may also enhance other effects ...

Side effects include flushed skin, nausea, headache, and rapid heart beat. The cause is a buildup of acetaldehyde in the body. Acetaldehyde is highly toxic and a known carcinogen. When alcohol ...

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Acetaldehyde alters the body's own neurotransmitters ... While alcohol is initially sleep-promoting, this effect reverses during the night, leading to interrupted and fragmented sleep.

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called for updating the existing surgeon general’s health warning label on alcohol-containing beverages to ...