We live in a society that glamorizes alcohol. In my twenties and thirties, every milestone and mundane moment seemed to warrant a drink — celebrations were peppered with toasts, tough days were ...

For the first time, researchers demonstrated in an animal how heavy alcohol use leads to long-term behavioral issues by damaging brain circuits critical for decision-making. Rats exposed to high ...

Last week, we posted a blog series on absinthe that included pointers on how to distill absinthe and how to make absinthe from kits. Some readers expressed kit absinthe is not “real” absinthe, with ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a nonprofit medical ethics group, filed a complaint today, May 28, 2025, with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of ...