Prominent, mandatory health warning labels on alcohol products should be implemented across Europe to raise awareness on the link between drinking and cancer, a new report by the World Health ...

Alcoholic drinks should have labels that explicitly state the link between drinking and cancer, an alliance of doctors, charities and public experts has urged. The campaign to have warnings placed on ...

Alcohol is linked to seven cancer types, including oral cavity, pharynx, and breast cancer, with varying absolute and relative risks between sexes. Acetaldehyde, a byproduct of ethanol metabolism, is ...

Last month, when U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for updating warning labels on alcoholic beverages to reflect a heightened risk of breast cancer, colon cancer and five other malignancies ...

Vocal opponents of the tobacco industry, such as Sens. Maurine Neuberger (D-Oreg.) and Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.), took up the mantle in Congress. But the industry ultimately pushed the 1965 law ...

An estimated one in five adults of drinking age in the U.S. have been abstaining from alcohol for “Dry January.” Motivations for participating might range from a desire to avoid hangovers, lose weight ...

The Surgeon General thinks it should. Vivek Murthy has issued a new call for warnings on alcoholic beverages thanks to the body of evidence suggesting drinking can contribute to a variety of kinds of ...

It was immediate headline news: The Surgeon General kicked off Dry January by releasing a new report about the linkages between cancer and alcohol and recommended that alcohol should carry a black box ...

The World Health Organization has called for “mandatory and standardised” health warning labels on alcoholic beverages in Europe to raise awareness of the links with cancer. The UN agency highlighted ...

A lit cigarette burns on a package of cigarettes revealing the mandatory warning labels, in the 1960s. Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Vocal opponents of the tobacco industry, such as Sens.