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.

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.

Every bottle of alcohol sold in the U.S. has a warning label, which says pregnant women should avoid alcohol, that drinking can impair your ability to drive a car, plus a vague mention that ...

Adding a warning label, he says, can reduce that knowledge gap. Alcohol use isn’t black and white, explains Nick Allen, founder and CEO at Sunnyside, an online system designed to help people decrease ...

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 ...