While most people think of fruit flies as an annoyance, we have a lot of reasons to be profoundly grateful for them. They have long been a crucial organism for scientific study, particularly with ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Alcoholic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the US surgeon general said in an advisory today. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s office noted that consuming alcohol ...

Isabella Cueto covers the leading causes of death and disability: chronic diseases. Her focus includes autoimmune conditions and diseases of the lungs, kidneys, liver (and more). She writes about ...

Most people think addiction means a person has severe withdrawal when not taking alcohol or drugs. But withdrawal symptoms ...

On a special episode of The Excerpt podcast: A recent groundbreaking study revealed that alcohol-related deaths are surging for women even more than for men. What’s to blame? Dr. Paula Cook, host of ...

Alcohol shakes are a common symptom of alcohol withdrawal that may occur when a heavy or long-term drinker stops drinking. While not everyone who quits drinking experiences alcohol shakes, this is a ...

Alcoholic insanity is an outdated term to describe alcohol-induced psychosis. This is a rare condition in which alcohol use disorder, acute alcohol intoxication, and alcohol withdrawal can cause ...

The University of Virginia is conducting a study on a new drug to help alcoholics who are trying to quit drinking. The drug, called Topamax, has shown some remarkable sucesses, but has not yet been ...

Remarkable scientific progress over the past five decades has helped us develop knowledge of how drugs of abuse induce pleasure, reinforce use, and lead to the compulsive self-administration we call ...

Williams’s communication team confirmed her diagnosis of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), an aggressive and incurable type of cognitive deterioration that can cause personality changes and the inability ...

There’s no set amount of alcohol that’s known to cause FAS, but experts advise against any alcohol consumption during pregnancy. Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is a type of fetal alcohol spectrum ...