During the festive season and other times of celebration, alcohol often flows freely. But how much is too much? In short, what counts as "binge drinking," and what are the potential health effects?

New research says that just one episode of binge drinking can impact the intestinal lining, causing “leaky gut” syndrome ...

Research shows that a single drinking binge—roughly four drinks for women or five for men within about two hours—can disrupt the gastrointestinal tract in measurable ways. Even in healthy adults, such ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people abuse alcohol. South_agency/E+ via Getty Images Despite the profound human, social and economic costs of ...

This is an important message about binge drinking. Most people who binge drink are trying to cope with stress. Stress is a part of life, however, how we cope with it can make all the difference. If ...

Past English government campaigns have tried to curb youth drinking by focusing on the things young people might do while drunk and regret later: falling off scaffolding, vomiting or ending up looking ...

New research has identified that neuroinflammation driven by microglia (immune cells in the brain) is a primary underlying driver of prolonged negative feelings caused by repeated, sustained binge ...

How excessive alcohol use in adolescence causes temporary and permanent changes to brain function. How excessive alcohol use - especially begun during adolescence - impacts somatostatin levels in the ...

Q: I don’t drink often, but I like to partake a little more than usual around the holidays. Is it OK to have more than a drink or two every once in a while? While the term “binge drinking” might ...

Health experts are warning about the dangers of high-intensity binge drinking, a more extreme form of binge drinking that occurs in a single sitting, according to Newsweek. While binge drinking is ...