Actually, the red wine study was issued a year or two ago. The problem with these studies is that there is what the study says, and there is what the newspapers report what the study says. For example, there was the famous study that says bumblebees cannot fly. That was the newspaper report. What the study actually said was that a bumblebee cannot fly UNLESS SHE FLAPS HER WINGS!
Thing is, the negative effects of alcohol in more than very small quantities have been known for centuries, if not for millenia. In fact so have the negative effects of any quantity of alcohol.