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Your health can benefit from rubbing alcohol in ways that go way beyond wiping down surfaces. But you have to use ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) is calling for cigarette-style warnings on alcohol to raise awareness about the link ...

If you’re already hungover, one New York dietitian nutritionist recommends consuming bananas, avocados, ginger or wheat toast to ease the aches and pains and avoiding fried, greasy and spicy foods, ...

O’Meara added, "Probiotics are typically found in fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, kombucha, or even sourdough.

By far, the most germ-rich areas in any gym are places that are warm and wet – such as saunas, showers, swimming pools or hot ...

Increasingly, reports like these conclude there is no safe level of drinking. Even moderate consumption—no more than one alcoholic beverage per day for women, and no more than two per day for ...

Is that evening glass of wine or weekend cocktail really harmless? Earlier this year, the U.S. Surgeon General issued an urgent advisory to raise awareness of the growing evidence linking alcohol ...

Methanol is metabolized into the natural gas methane by many microbes living under Earth’s surface, but its source has been unclear. It emerges that some bacteria convert formate molecules into ...

The researchers discovered that the chemical diethanolamine, or DEA, an ingredient in some detergents, sometimes takes the place of a sugar alcohol in a molecule that bacteria make in the gut.