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How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in Health of 2024
The realm of health is in the middle of a golden age of transformation. Read how TIME chose the list of doctors, scientists and more.
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Alex Oshmyansky
Sometimes all it takes is a cold email to start a revolution. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky, a radiologist who had become incensed by the runaway prices of prescription drugs, decided to email billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who famously makes his contact info public. He included a business plan for a small company he…
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Joel Habener, Dan Drucker, Svetlana Mojsov and Jens Juul Holst
Newly powerful weight-loss drugs became the biggest story in health in the past year—and Dr. Jens Juul Holst, Dr. Joel Habener, Svetlana Mojsov, and Dr. Daniel Drucker played pivotal roles in making those medications possible. The scientists conducted the early work, beginning in the 1970s, on glucagon-like peptides, or GLPs, that first transformed the treatment…
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Melanie Ward
The U.K.-based nonprofit Medical Aid for Palestinians was founded 40 years ago to improve health care for all Palestinian people. So when war between Israel and Hamas broke out in the fall of 2023, CEO Melanie Ward knew her group would need to respond. “This is what the organization was built for,” she says. Ward…
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Ivan Cheung
In the pharmaceutical world, where ideas far outnumber marketable products, executives adhere to the motto of “fail often, and fail early,” with the understanding that to do so requires the discipline to know when to cut their losses and say no. But Ivan Cheung followed other advice as CEO of Eisai, Inc. “The opposite is…
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Stuart Orkin
Dr. Stuart Orkin didn’t set out to develop a historic treatment for sickle cell disease 45 years ago when he decided to study how blood cells formed. He became a researcher at Harvard Medical School just as scientists learned how to clone, or make copies of, genes. “Everybody was talking about how we could now…
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Ronnie Levin
In the next decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aims to replace all the country’s lead pipes. Few did more to bring about the change than Ronnie Levin, who published a cost-benefit analysis in 2023 on cutting lead in drinking water, tallying the dollar costs of problems like impaired cognitive function and increased risk…
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Shahzad Baig
Polio eradication has largely been a global vaccination success story. The disease, which can lead to paralysis or death, mostly in children, now circulates only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. On the front lines in the effort to stamp it out is Dr. Shahzad Baig, national coordinator of Pakistan’s polio-eradication program. In 2019, polio disabled or…
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David Baker
Proteins, each with their own unique three-dimensional architecture, are the body’s molecular tools, adapted to perform the specific tasks necessary for maintaining life. For decades, researchers have modified proteins to augment or alter their function. Insulin lispro, for example, is a modified form of naturally occurring insulin that removes sugar from the blood more rapidly…
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Georg Schett
In recent years, the new immune-based therapy CAR T has dramatically improved outcomes for patients with certain blood cancers that involve B cells, like leukemia and lymphoma. Dr. Georg Schett, a rheumatologist at the University Hospital Erlangen in Germany, saw the potential of the treatment for autoimmune diseases like lupus, in which immune B cells…
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How Kate Middleton is Honoring Princess Charlotte’s Birthday
The Prince and Princess of Wales marked their daughter Charlotte's ninth birthday by sharing an image taken by Kate Middleton.
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New Poll Reveals Real Dividing Line Between Abortion Supporters and Opponents
Across all but five states, most Americans support at least some access to abortion.
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The Growing Epidemic of Elderly Abuse
Increasing reports of horrific events that affect the elderly are now commonplace, write Dr.Robert Glatter and Dr. Peter Papadakos.
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Another Boeing-Linked Whistleblower Has Died: What to Know About Josh Dean and Spirit Aero
Joshua Dean is the second Boeing-linked whistleblower to have died in the last two months.
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Netflix’s Flimsy A Man in Full Makes Tom Wolfe’s Epic Novel Feel Small
Created by David E. Kelley and starring Jeff Daniels, this slight adaptation of Tom Wolfe's era-defining book is permeated by bad choices
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Student Journalists From Columbia to UCLA Are on the Frontlines Covering Campus Unrest
On American campuses awash in anger this spring, student journalists are in the center of it all, sometimes uncomfortably so.
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Columbia’s Relationship With Student Protesters Has Long Been Fraught
Aniko Bodroghkozy, who participated in protest on Columbia's campus in 1985, spoke with TIME about how recent protests compare to other moments in the school's history some 40 and 56 years back.
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Pro-Palestinian Campus Protests Highlight Divisions Among Democrats
“We're divided,” says Rep. Jamaal Bowman. “We have many members of the party who are pro-Israel without equivocation, and others who take a more balanced and nuanced approach.”
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Biden Cancels $6B in Debt for Former Students of the Art Institutes
The Biden administration said it will cancel $6 billion in student loans for people who attended the Art Institutes, a system of for-profit colleges.
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Northwestern University’s Deal With Student Protesters Offers Example of Successful Negotiations
The agreement at Northwestern University offered an example of successful negotiations between anti-war demonstrators and administrators.
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It’s Time to Treat Sugar Like Cigarettes
"We believe it is every American’s right to have clear and visible information about the sugar," write Mark Hyman and Ron Gutman
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The Idea of You Is About the Ultimate Middle-Aged-Lady Fantasy: Being Noticed
The Anne Hathaway movie is being sold as an age-gap romance but is actually about wish fulfillment for middle-aged women
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Vows to Force a Vote Next Week on Ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, forcing her colleagues to choose sides.
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Fred Richard Is Team USA’s Next Olympic Hope for Men’s Gymnastics
Fred Richard is dreaming bigger than the Paris Games
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Paul Auster, Prolific and Experimental Man of Letters and Filmmaker, Dies at 77
Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for “The New York Trilogy" and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age 77.
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FKA twigs Creates Deepfake AI Version of Herself With a Special Use in Mind
British singer-songwriter FKA twigs addressed a U.S. Senate subcommittee about the dangers of artificial intelligence.
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Florida’s 6-Week Abortion Ban Takes Effect as Doctors Worry Women Will Lose Access to Health Care
Florida's ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect Wednesday.
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Organic Walnuts Are Linked to a Dangerous E. Coli Outbreak
Seven people have been hospitalized and two have developed a dangerous kidney disease.
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Anti-LGBTQ+ Policies Have an Alarming Effect on Youth Mental Health, Survey Finds
Nearly 40% of LGBTQ+ youth have seriously considered attempting suicide in the last year, according to a survey by the Trevor Project.
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Arizona’s Abortion Ban Never Represented the Will of the People—Even in 1864
Legislators look likely to repeal a near-total abortion ban enacted by a deeply unrepresentative territorial legislature.
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