The outgoing U.S. Surgeon General made headlines when he called for a cancer warning on alcoholic beverages. But cancer is not the only risk you run with a regular after-work drink.

Drinking, especially binge drinking, can raise blood pressure and heart rate, increase your risk for heart attack, and even lead to a condition called alcoholic cardiomyopathy, a type of heart ...

Alcoholic cardiomyopathy usually has a poor prognosis, but the case presented here documents a dramatic regression of left ventricular dysfunction in a patient with alcoholic cardiomyopathy.

Those conditions include "polyneuropathy, alcoholic psychosis, alcohol myopathy, alcohol-induced acute pancreatitis" and other issues. Alcohol use also raises the risks of heart disease and is ...