Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that alcoholic drinks should carry a warning about cancer risks on their label. Alcohol consumption ... letters against a white background.

has been open about his past struggles with heroin and alcohol, and says he attends Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. The decision to update the label will ultimately be made by Congress. Dr. Cen ...

Murthy’s advisory comes as research and evidence mounts about the bad effects that alcohol has on human health, but his proposal for a label would require a rare approval from the U.S. Congress.

Adding a warning label, he says, can reduce that knowledge gap. Alcohol use isn’t black and white, explains Nick Allen, ...

In the advisory from the Office of the Surgeon General, alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the country after tobacco and obesity. The warning label hasn’t been updated ...