Can a Half-Cent Tax on Drink Save Lives?

A recent study appears to confirm a long-held conviction about alcohol abuse and driving while under the influence: If you increase the price of alcohol, you will end up saving lives. The twist to the latest peer-reviewed research, which appeared in the American...

Calling Out Coffee Mania: A Reporter Looks at the Statistics

The press bombards us with messages about what’s bad for us: obesity, drugs, too much alcohol, (maybe), coffee, sugar, cell phones, and—most recently—loneliness, which we were told was as damaging to our health as obesity and smoking. Occasionally, we catch a break...

Did the Health Benefits of Alcohol Just Vanish?

Alcohol has long been held as a source of damnation and debauchery, thanks to its well-publicized ill effects from deaths associated to drunk driving to unfortunate people living bottle to bottle on the street. But health professionals have also recognized the health...