Recent research has increasingly focused on how chronic alcohol consumption can impair lung function and increase ... associated with respiratory diseases. One of the key findings in recent ...

Sustained alcohol use can result in alcohol-related liver disease. "There is a condition called acute alcoholic hepatitis, where the alcohol triggers an acute inflammatory process in the liver ...

Health risks caused by alcohol have received new scrutiny recently, and federal data show the annual number of drug-related ...

Several studies show the substance may help ward off certain types of cancer, like prostate and lung ... to heart disease and even strokes. There's also an association between alcohol and ...

David Mannino, MD, a pulmonologist in Lexington, KY, and the medical director and co-founder of the COPD Foundation, agrees that too many people with lung disease remain in the dark after diagnosis.

Why do some people who consume a few glasses of alcohol a day develop advanced liver disease while others who drink the same amount don't? The answer may lie in three common underlying medical ...

Loneliness and social isolation have been linked to an elevated risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), according ...