INDIANAPOLIS — Heavy drinking among women has seen a sharp and alarming rise since the COVID-19 pandemic, with a 41% increase reported nationwide. In Indiana, nearly 19% of women aged 18 to 44 say ...

Excessive drinking is on the rise for midlife women. For decades, data indicated that men were more likely than women to develop alcohol use disorders (AUDs) like binge-drinking. While that still ...

Conner: What are the health risks associated with regular or heavy alcohol consumption.

The brain circuits that underlie alcohol craving and heavy drinking share some similarities between men and women, but also some key differences, a new Yale study reveals. Using functional magnetic ...

LOS ANGELES — Serious liver disease is becoming more common among Americans who drink heavily, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. It’s not that more people are partying with alcohol.

Heavy drinking is associated with increased risk of a type of brain injury linked with memory and thinking problems. That’s according to a new study in which researchers defined heavy drinking as ...

A study published in Addiction indicated that women who drink heavily are more at risk of becoming pregnant than those who drink moderately or use cannabis. Study participants who are heavy drinkers ...

Women who drink more than eight alcoholic beverages per week are at an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD), research suggests. While both men and women in the study had increased ...

Heavy drinkers today are over twice as likely as two decades ago to develop serious liver disease. The study analyzed national health data and defined heavy drinking as eight drinks per week for women ...

Heavy drinking spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic and continued to rise in the years that followed, new research shows. Drinking rates also spiked more among women than men. The number of women who ...

Consuming at least eight alcoholic drinks per week was associated with a 133% higher risk for hyaline arteriosclerosis, a brain lesion associated with memory and thinking problems, than not drinking, ...

Los Angeles — Serious liver disease is becoming more common among Americans who drink heavily, according to a new study from Keck Medicine of USC. It's not that more people are partying with alcohol.