A team showed how both alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal can lead to increased pain and hypersensitivity. Chronic alcohol consumption may make people more sensitive to pain through two different ...

One of the main physical symptoms of alcohol withdrawal is 'allodynia' -- increased sensitivity to mechanical stimuli that are normally innocuous, which is a clinical sign of chronic pain. In a new ...

Drinking too much alcohol can increase inflammation and harm your body. Alcohol use disorder is a leading cause of death in the US and Europe. Heavy alcohol use may worsen inflammatory conditions like ...

A new review uncovers how chronic alcohol consumption accelerates Alzheimer’s pathology through oxidative stress and neuroinflammatory cascades, while spotlighting promising molecular and metabolic ...

Drinking extreme amounts of alcohol for decades has devastating effects on the liver. In this case, the damage accumulated ...

Drinking alcohol regularly can cause your levels of magnesium to nosedive and make it hard for your body to absorb magnesium ...

A new study has shown that alcohol intake can interfere with the natural regenerative abilities of the liver. Alcohol can keep cells in a kind of limbo between a functional or regenerative state, even ...

Chronic and heavy alcohol use leads to gut inflammation, which increases the risk of stomach cancer. Stomach cancer, a serious condition characterized by the growth of malignant cells in the stomach ...

Contrary to popular belief, chronic pancreatitis caused by alcohol consumption occurs at much lower rates compared to other causes, according to a new study in Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology ...