There is no “safe amount of alcohol consumption,” researchers from the World Health Organization advise. Drinking as few as one standard drink per day raises the risk of certain cancers.

A standard drink is 12 ounces of regular beer (5% alcohol by volume), 5 ounces of wine (12% alcohol by volume), or 1.5 ounces of 80-proof liquor. The evidence does not support the idea that we all ...

A new federal report shows that one drink per day could raise the risk of liver damage and several cancers. The report follows a recommendation by the U.S. Surgeon General on safe alcohol consumption ...

“I’ve done research where I’ve given people cans of alcohol products like a 14% 23 and a half ounce Four Loko. People will guess that it has two or three standard drinks, but it’s really ...

The study did not differentiate between different types of alcohol, since most experts believe it is the amount of pure ethanol that matters more than the choice of beverage. The standard drink in ...

(Current U.S. guidelines state that alcohol consumption should be limited to one standard drink a day for women and up to two drinks a day for men. This is also considered the upper limit on “mo ...

The draft report was published Tuesday ahead of a major update to influential federal guidelines on how much alcohol Americans should drink. "In the United States, males and females have a 1 in ...