Alcohol bottles already carry a surgeon general’s warning, ordered by Congress in 1988. It advises that alcohol can harm a pregnancy, dull your driving skills or cause other unspecified ...

The U.S. Surgeon General's warning connects alcohol consumption to seven types of cancer, with women facing higher risks than men from lower amounts of alcohol.

The US Surgeon General's advisory on cancer and alcohol sent shares of beverage makers lower, but its effects may be much more widespread.

US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Friday warning Americans that alcohol consumption can increase their cancer risk and called for an updated health warning label on alcoholic ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies alcohol as a carcinogen, with new evidence connecting it to pancreatic cancer, affecting approximately 75,000 Americans annually.

The U.S. surgeon general has released a new advisory warning of alcohol-related cancer risk. The new guidance follows research that has linked alcohol to at least seven types of cancer.

Current required warning labels on alcohol sold in the U.S. say: "GOVERNMENT WARNING: (1) According to the Surgeon General, women should not drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy because of ...

Health warning labels on alcohol should be updated to include a cancer risk warning, the U.S. surgeon general said Friday, adding that recommended limits for alcohol consumption should also be ...

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy is calling on Congress to require health warning labels that inform consumers about the link between alcohol consumption and the risk of cancer.

The link between alcohol and cancer is the subject of an advisory by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, so Newsweek reached out to experts for their thoughts on the topic.. In a statement issued ...

Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy recently called for rethinking recommended limits on drinking alcohol. Much of the country is already ahead of him on that. January 12, 2025 ...

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned on Friday that alcohol is a preventable cause of cancer, and called for reconsidering the federal government’s guidelines for how much Americans can safely drink.