TIME100 Health: Takanori Takebe | TIME
Long before the COVID pandemic, Dr. Takanori Takebe knew how damaging mechanical ventilators could be. He had seen…
TIME100 Health: Brian Ahmedani | TIME
Nearly three decades ago, Brian Ahmedani was part of the Henry Ford Health team that developed the Zero…
TIME100 Health: Kara Egan | TIME
Last year, the tampon-shaped Teal Wand became the first FDA-approved device for at-home cervical cancer screening, offering a…
TIME100 Health: Joe Sachs | TIME
As an executive producer and writer of the HBO Max series The Pitt, real-life emergency physician Dr. Joe…
TIME100 Health: Ilaria Villa | TIME
In December, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first gene therapy, Waskyra, for the rare…
TIME100 Health: Mikhail Varshavski | TIME
Dr. Mikhail Varshavski—Dr. Mike to his followers—started posting on social media to provide vetted health information with an…
TIME100 Health: Tariro Makadzange | TIME
Fewer than 4% of clinical trials are done in Africa, so Dr. Tariro Makadzange, a clinical assistant professor…
TIME100 Health: Douglas Melton | TIME
Douglas Melton has two compelling reasons to go to work every day: his children Sam and Emma, both…
TIME100 Health: Martin Fitchet | TIME
The world has made great advances in tackling malaria, but the disease still imposes a huge global health…
TIME100 Health: Kerry Burnight | TIME
Gerontologist Kerry Burnight is rewriting the aging narrative. Burnight’s 2025 book Joyspan: The Art and Science of Thriving…
TIME100 Health: Mehmet Oz | TIME
Since becoming head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which covers health care services for about…
TIME100 Health: Waseem Qasim and Alyssa Tapley
In 2022, Alyssa Tapley, then 13, was told that her cancer—a form of T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia—was terminal.…