Your pancreas, crucial for digestion and blood sugar, can signal distress through persistent abdominal pain, unexplained ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes that any alcohol intake carries some risk, especially for cancer and ...

When we think about protecting our health, we often think of the heart, brain, bones and gut. But not enough of us spare a thought for our pancreas – an organ that plays a vital role in digestion and ...

New data suggested that any level of alcohol consumption raised the risk of dementia. A Mendelian randomization analysis found no evidence that moderate drinking protected against dementia. Findings ...

Drinking any amount of alcohol likely increases the risk of dementia, suggests the largest combined observational and genetic study to date, published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine. Even light ...

Drinking any amount of alcohol increases your risk of dementia later in life, according to a new study that challenges prior research findings. Some research has suggested light drinking — such as ...

Scientists estimate chimps’ alcohol consumption for the first time, and find they seem to prefer boozier fruit. Male chimpanzees at the Taï National Park in Côte d’Ivoire are shown eating. A new study ...

Just over a year ago, I wrote about the bureaucratic machinations in the U.S. attempting to import an anti-alcohol agenda into the government's 2025 Dietary Guidelines. Now, it appears that alcohol ...

Stefano Kaburu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

In 2014, University of California, Berkeley biologist Robert Dudley wrote a book called The Drunken Monkey: Why We Drink and Abuse Alcohol. His controversial “drunken monkey hypothesis” proposed that ...

Wild chimpanzees scoffing fermented fruit consume the equivalent of two glasses of wine per day, factoring in their body size compared with us. It has long been known that many primates, including ...