Prohibition aimed to curb male violence. Instead, it gave rise to female bootleggers, policy advocates, and a cultural shift ...

Women suffer from the negative health effects of alcohol more quickly than men do, even with a smaller amount of alcohol consumption, according to research Victoria Cooper thought her drinking ...

A clinical trial led by the Germans Trias i Pujol University Hospital and Research Institute has found that women experience ...

Binge drinking has increased among older adults, and alcohol-related hospital visits among middle-aged women spiked last year. Historically, men have consumed more alcohol than women, according to ...

Women have increased their alcohol consumption at a higher rate than men, particularly their heavy drinking days — those when they have four or more drinks within a couple hours, she noted.

Women have been closing the gender gap in alcohol consumption, binge-drinking and alcohol use disorder for nearly 100 years. What was previously a 3-1 ratio for risky drinking habits in men versus ...

New data show that more U.S. women are dying from alcohol than ever before. Public health authorities need to adopt more effective strategies to help women realize when their drinking is a problem.

Each additional drink a woman consumes daily increases her breast-cancer risk, and alcohol accounts for about 15 percent of all breast-cancer cases. Younger women are driving an increase in deaths ...

That is particularly true of women, who are more likely to drink alcohol because of stress than men, he said. Research indicates stress is one of the main reasons that people misuse alcohol.

Despite drinking less during the pandemic, women aged 40 to 60 “were significantly more likely than expected to experience serious complications like alcohol-related cardiovascular and liver ...

Many women drink alcohol to relax, feel good and take the edge off life, but recent evidence suggests skipping that daily glass of wine is a better way to boost their mental health.

Women at the top of the socioeconomic spectrum appear to be driving the change. “Increases in alcohol consumption and binge drinking are concentrated among the highest levels of education ...