The Federation Council approved a bill classifying beer as an alcoholic drink Wednesday, for the first time subjecting the beverage to the same controls as wines and spirits.

It will come as bad news for people who enjoy a daily tipple - when it comes to reducing your risk of cancer, there is no such thing as a safe amount of alcohol.

Expand Exposure to alcohol marketing and films with images of sexy drinking could entice people to drink twice as much as they normally would, a conference on alcohol harm heard yesterday.

Study of alcohol content of 129,000 wines reveals some vintners deliberately - but legally - market wine as less strong

THE average Australian spends $31 a week on alcohol.

Britain's High Streets are set to be inundated with more cheap alcohol deals after Poundworld announced plans to sell cut-price alcoholic drinks. The budget chain, which has enjoyed healthy sales in the d

(Reuters Health) - Heavy drinkers more often end up in the hospital with pneumonia than those who go easy on the alcohol, suggests a new study from Denmark.

Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Advertisement A report called Invisible Addicts that is published today will reveal that safe drinking limits for older people are in fact lower than those for the young.

Australia's prime minister has been urged to raise the minimum price of alcohol to curb addiction. Cheap alcohol is being blamed for fuelling a crime wave in the Northern Territory town of Alice Springs.

A survey has revealed that “children who see their parents drunk are twice as likely to regularly get drunk themselves,” reported BBC News. Several newspapers also covered this news story.