More than one in seven pregnant women in the United States reported consuming alcohol in the previous month, according to a ...

South Africa has the largest HIV epidemic in the world, with adolescent girls and young women ages 15–24 at the highest risk ...

Understanding the Alcohol-Breast Cancer Link: What Women Need to Know For many women, unwinding with a glass of wine after a ...

A new study indicates that women who drink more than eight alcoholic beverages a week are at greater risk of developing heart disease than those who drink less. Those who binge-drink take even more ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The study, which will be presented at the American College of Cardiology's annual scientific session, analyzed data from more than ...

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: A recent groundbreaking study revealed that alcohol-related deaths are surging for women even more than for men. What’s to blame? Dr. Paula Cook, host of ...

Alcohol is often overlooked as a critical health issue for women, but the French National Authority for Health (HAS) aims to change this perception. HAS seeks to integrate alcohol consumption into ...

A rising number of women are succumbing to alcohol-related deaths, a new study published in JAMA Network on July 28 found. While males historically have been more than twice as likely to die from ...

No amount of alcohol is good for the human body, previous research has shown — and now a new study has linked it to a rising number of deaths. Over the course of two decades — from 1999 to 2020 — the ...

A new study reveals hormonal and biochemical factors that affect alcohol dependence (also known as Alcohol Use Disorder), suggesting that men and women with alcohol problems may benefit from different ...

When Karla Adkins looked in the rearview mirror of her car one morning nearly 10 years ago, she noticed the whites of her eyes had turned yellow. She was 36 at the time and working as a physician ...