A Pennsylvania man who credits an alligator named Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade says he is searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia.
How do you score a seat at fashion's biggest night? Here's what you need to know about how to get invited to the Met Gala.
President Joe Biden has called Japan and India “xenophobic” countries that do not welcome immigrants, lumping the two with adversaries China and Russia.
Pollsters found only five states where abortion supporters are in the minority.
Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause.
"None of this is a peaceful protest," President Joe Biden said in his first public remarks on this week's campus protests.
The acclaimed Indian director on his epic Netflix series about the courtesans who played a role in India’s struggle for independence.
Peloton is cutting about 400 jobs worldwide as part of a restructuring effort and its CEO Barry McCarthy is stepping down after two years as the company continues to work on turning around its business.
'Bread and Roses,' produced by Jennifer Lawrence and Malala Yousafzai, offers a rare look into life for Afghan women under the Taliban.
Artists from Universal Music Group, which include Drake, Adele, and Bad Bunny will be returning to TikTok.
Across social media, iPhone users have reported waking up to the scary realization that they had missed their alarm.
The death toll from a collapsed highway in southeastern China climbed to 48 on Thursday as searchers dug for a second day.
Nicaragua once preoccupied the U.S. public. Forty years later, few Americans noticed the return to power of Daniel Ortega.
Police removed barricades and began dismantling a pro-Palestinian demonstrators’ fortified encampment early Thursday at UCLA.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When Robinne Lee wrote The Idea of You, she didn't expect her story about ageism, sexism, and agency to be reduced to 'fluff.'
