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The 17-year-old daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand accidentally fell to her death from a midtown high-rise early Friday after partying at a posh Manhattan nightclub, police said.

A distraught Lindsay Lohan was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Tuesday after a judge ruled that she had violated her probation by missing a string of alcohol education classes imposed for a 2007 drunk driving arrest.

Koppel's son died from overdose of drugs, alcohol

By COLLEEN LONG
2010-06-18T22:14:38Z
NEW YORK

The son of legendary TV newsman Ted Koppel was found dead in a Washington Heights apartment under mysterious circumstances yesterday morning after a daylong drinking binge with a man he had just met in a Midtown bar, law-enforcement sources said. Andrew Koppel, 40, of Rockaway Park, Queens, was declared dead...

People who drink moderately tend to have a higher social status, exercise more, suffer less depression and enjoy superior health overall compared ...

Lohan had been placed on three years' probation and ordered to complete an alcohol rehabilitation program after pleading guilty to cocaine use and driving under the influence in August 2007.

If you downed one too many while watching the Super Bowl, here's at least one reason to hold your head high: Drinking beer can be good for your health.

“On the rocks” has a whole new meaning: A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica's ice for two crates of Scotch whiskey that were shipped there by British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.

Tackling just five health factors could prevent millions of premature deaths and increase global life expectancy by almost 5 years, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.

Drinking beer regularly could stop bones from going brittle, according to scientists... Beer is also rich in phytoestrogens, plant versions of oestrogen, which keep bones healthy. The Spanish researchers said: "Silicon plays a major role in bone formation. Beer has been claimed to be one of the most important sources of silicon in the Western diet.