Articles by Ed Cara
A popular supplement often taken for its brain-boosting potential may have a dark side. Recent research suggests that an ingredient found in fish oil could have a counterproductive effect on the braiοΏ½...
For many people, myself very much included, diet soda might be the closest thing to a miracle: a calorie-free and mostly guilt-free way of approximating the tasty joy of a soft drink.
As long as dieοΏ½...
Tirzepatide, the active ingredient behind the popular weight loss drug Zepbound and the diabetes drug Mounjaro, has more tricks up its sleeve. Research out this week shows that it can do wonders for οΏ½...
Here comes science to ruin another of lifeβs simple, if guilty, pleasures. Research out today suggests that eating late at night can further worsen our gut health.
Scientists examined data from a n...
A case report out this month starkly illustrates the damage forest fires can do to our lungs.
Doctors in China treated a man who breathed in thick smoke from a forest fire. After the manβs respirat...
Many people, myself included, have tried to lose weight at some point in our lives. And statistically speaking, the vast majority of the time, those attempts have ended in abject failure, with littleοΏ½...
A small clinical trial out today might offer a sneak preview of a promising medical advance: organ transplants without the need for lifelong anti-rejection drugs.
Doctors at the University of PittsbοΏ½...
A study out this week may have uncovered something else that can set off peopleβs painful migraines: air pollution.
Researchers tracked the health of regular migraine sufferers. The more air pollut...
A 63-year-old man in Norway seems to have gotten one of the best gifts ever given by a brother: a cure to his lifelong HIV infection.
Doctors detailed the amazing turn of events in a case report outοΏ½...
Gird your toilets, everyone: superbug strains of Shigella bacteria, a common diarrhea-causing infection, are becoming a larger problem.
Federal and state health officials detailed the trend in a recοΏ½...
