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TIME Reveals the 2025 TIME100 Health

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How We Chose the TIME100 Most Influential People in Health of 2025

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Mary McCormack

Novel drugs are desperately needed in the fight against cancer. But what if we could improve survival with older, less expensive drugs—just by changing how and when they’re given? This question inspired Dr. Mary McCormack...

By Matt Fuchs

Ilona Maher

If you want to offend Ilona Maher, slinging the word “big” at her isn’t going to cut it. The wildly popular rugby player—who won bronze at the 2024 Paris Olympics—is 5’10” and 200 pounds (most...

By Angela Haupt

Scott LoMurray

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for teens and young adults in the U.S. A peer-led program called Sources of Strength aims to change that—and research suggests it’s working. According to a study published...

By Angela Haupt

Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne

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By Olivia B. Waxman

Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen

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By Kelly Mickle

Suresh Ramalingam

Last summer, Dr. Suresh Ramalingam, executive director of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, received a standing ovation at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. What stirred the audience were the...

By Sandeep Ravindran

Kate Middleton

Royals are famously seen, not heard, but Kate Middleton, Princess of Wales, reversed that trend in March 2024 when at 42, she announced she had been diagnosed with cancer. In a frank video she spoke...

By Alice Park

Lorenzo Guglielmetti

Tuberculosis is an especially cruel disease—literally choking the life out of the people it strikes. That fact is particularly so for people who suffer from what’s known as rifampin-resistant TB, a form of the disease...

By Jeffrey Kluger

Colin Farrell

Parenting a child with intellectual disability can come with untold challenges. When that child grows up, what little support that may exist often disappears. Colin Farrell is bringing awareness to this issue by sharing his...

By Mandy Oaklander

Ara Darzi

Honorary consultant surgeon at Imperial College Hospital NHS Trust, Ara Darzi, was commissioned by the British government to review the state of the National Health Service. What he found was damning: crumbling facilities, equipment shortages,...

By Kelly Mickle

Bill Nye

Bill Nye did not have much to do with politics during the 1990s, when he was making his celebrated Bill Nye the Science Guy TV series on PBS. But Nye has grown increasingly vocal in...

By Jeffrey Kluger

Barbara Kingsolver

In the years leading up to the publication of her Pulitzer-Prize winning 2022 novel Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver spent time in Lee County, Va., the drug-ravaged southern Appalachian region where it’s set (about an hour...

By Angela Haupt

Brooke Eby

Brooke Eby was just 33 when she was diagnosed in 2022 with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis—ALS, otherwise known as Lou Gehrig's disease. For a couple months, she hid in bed eating M&Ms. Then, even though she...

By Angela Haupt

Catriona Bradshaw

Most women have experienced, or at least heard of, bacterial vaginosis (BV). One in three women of reproductive age is affected by the condition, which was previously viewed as an imbalance in the vaginal microbiome....

By Charlotte Hu

Vinod Balachandran

Despite dramatic advances in cancer therapies over the last two decades, pancreatic cancer remains the third-leading cause of cancer death in the U.S. Even with the best available treatments, about 90% of diagnosed patients die...

By Sandeep Ravindran

Damar Hamlin

After Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest during an NFL game in early 2023—his life hanging in the balance before millions of horrified television viewers, until emergency responders saved him—he resolved not only...

By Sean Gregory
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