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The Vital Importance of Health: Why Our Well-being Matters

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In the grand tapestry of human existence, health stands as a foundational thread weaving through every aspect of our lives. From the moment we draw […]

  • by Jeffrey Kluger
    Nitrogen dioxide from open flames can be a serious health risk.
  • by Alice Park
    Health officials provide the latest details on the most recent case of bird flu reported in humans.
  • by Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman
    The rising numbers of adverse effects occurring in the wake of legislative reform of marijuana are disturbing. But they are not surprising.
  • by CHRISTINA LARSON / AP
    An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild.
  • by Sam Jacobs
    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.
  • by Alice Park
    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…
  • by Alice Park
    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…
  • by Jamie Ducharme
    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…
  • by Alice Park
    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…
  • by Alice Park
    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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