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President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Marty Makary to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the federal agency tasked with ensuring the safety and efficacy of drugs, medical devices, food, and cosmetics.

Makary, a surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University, will appear before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on Thursday, March 6 for his nomination hearing. If confirmed by the Senate, he would run one of the country’s leading health agencies, overseeing the regulation of products ranging from vaccines to abortion medications.

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Here’s what to know about Makary.

He works at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Makary serves as the chief of islet transplant surgery at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Much of his research has focused on the underlying causes of disease and the cost of health care. He’s also a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

He has made controversial statements about COVID-19 ..

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs.

The new National Institutes of Health policy would strip research groups of hundreds of millions of dollars to cover so-called indirect expenses of studying Alzheimer’s, cancer, heart disease and a host of other illnesses — anything from clinical trials of new treatments to basic lab research that is the foundation for discoveries.

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Separate lawsuits filed by a group of 22 states plus organizations representing universities, hospitals and research institutions nationwide sued to stop the cuts, saying they would cause “irreparable harm.”

U.S. District Judge Angel Kelley in Boston had temporarily blocked the cuts last month. Wednesday, she filed a preliminary injunction that puts the cuts on hold for longer, while the suits proceed.

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As Americans prepare to spring forward on Sunday, some might dread the looming loss of an hour of sleep. In fact, over half of U.S. adults now oppose daylight saving time, according to a recent Gallup poll—and the reason might be backed by science. Experts say the time change does more than just make the mornings a little tougher, it impacts our health.

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“The spring time change leads to society-wide sleep deprivation,” says Jennifer Martin, former president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

A big impact

While losing an hour of sleep might not sound like a major change, Martin says it has a big impact on our health—in large part because most Americans are already not getting enough sleep. “Many Americans are already chronically sleep deprived or suffering from sleep disorders,” she says. “This extra disrupti..

It’s times like this I wish I lived in Hawaii. Or Arizona. Or American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or on the Western lands of the Navajo nation. Those are the places under U.S. jurisdiction that do not observe the manifest folly of Daylight Saving Time, and will be leaving their clocks and watches exactly as they are when the rest of us are dialing ours an hour forward on Sunday, March 9.

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The switch will happen as it always does at the decidedly unhandy time of 2 a.m., when anyone with a decent circadian sense will have long since gone to bed. It will mean that the sun comes up an hour later in the morning, leaving early risers to wake up in darkness. The sun will also hang around an hour later in the evening, contributing to an unseemly 8:30 sunset in most of the continental U.S. and the absurdity of an 11:44 p.m. sunset in Alaska on the June 21 summer solstice.

The U.S. is not exactly alone in ..

This year, for the first time, TIME will debut a ranking of the World’s Top HealthTech Companies, in partnership with Statista, a leading international provider of market and consumer data and rankings. The ranking aims to highlight health tech companies that drive innovation, enhance accessibility, and contribute to a more effective and sustainable health care system.

Because many companies in this space are young, TIME and Statista are accepting applications as part of the research phase. An application guarantees consideration for the list, but does not guarantee a spot on the list, nor is the final list limited to applicants.

To apply, click here.

Winners will be announced on TIME.com in September 2025.

Even though it’s a natural part of a woman’s reproductive lifespan, menopause can be a lightning rod for emotional reactions. Some women are thrilled to have their periods come to an end, along with the risk of having an unplanned pregnancy. Others dread the prospect of hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes, and other unpleasant symptoms related to menopause.

Meanwhile, still others worry about increased health risks—for conditions such as osteoporosis, heart disease, and dementia—that can come with the loss of ovarian function and the dramatic decline in estrogen levels that occur after menopause. That’s partly why some scientists and cultural influencers believe that delaying menopause may be a key to longevity.

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“The ovary ages faster than many other organs, and often even faster than the woman herself,” says Dr. Zev Williams, director of the Columbia University Fertility Center and chief of the division of reproductive endocrinology and fertilit..

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is President Trump’s pick to lead the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which has traditionally been the largest funder of biomedical research in the world.

On March 5, the Stanford University professor of health policy will face questions from the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee as he attempts to get confirmed to lead one of the country’s most powerful health agencies.

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Here’s what to know about Bhattacharya.

He’s the son of immigrants

Bhattacharya was born in Kolkata, India and said in a podcast interview that his mother came from a slum, while his father, an electrical engineer, was part of the country’s middle class. In the 1970s, his family immigrated to the U.S., settling first in Massachusetts and then in California, outside of Los Angeles. When he was 18, Bhattacharya converted from Hinduism to become a Presbyterian.

He’s interested in health economics

Bhattacharya earned four degrees at Stanf..

Watching Netflix’s Apple Cider Vinegar can feel like you’ve ventured into the pit of a misinformation cesspool and are oscillating between horror, disgust, and bewilderment the entire time.

The series tells the story of real-life health influencer Belle Gibson (played by Kaitlyn Dever), the Australian sensation who in 2015 confirmed that she had faked having brain cancer and that she had cured it through alternative medicine in order to achieve celebrity status. The true story is nightmarish, in part because Gibson’s practice of building a massive following based on lies that endangered everyone but herself is far from an anomaly, especially in the influencer space.

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Apple Cider Vinegar frustratingly elides some of the nuances that made Gibson’s ascension possible, including her whiteness, race- and gender-based inequities in medicine that can lead patients to mistrust doctors, and a frightening disinterest in the truth amid our social media age. Th..

It’s like watching a rerun while you’re sleeping: Once again, you show up for a class not knowing there’s a test, or lose control of your car while driving, or get chased by a shadowy figure. Recurring dreams have a way of popping up again and again.

“The dreams contain the same content, emotions, or narrative structure,” explains Antonio Zadra, a professor of psychology and senior researcher at the Center for Advanced Research in Sleep Medicine at the University of Montreal. Common themes include falling into space, losing teeth, feeling paralyzed in a threatening situation, enduring a natural disaster, or being ripped off or cheated on. But “a significant chunk of recurrent dreams are idiosyncratic,” says Zadra, who co-wrote the book When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep. “And some people have more than one recurrent dream.”

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Here’s what to know about why they keep happening.

How common are recurring dreams?

The vast major..

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has long cast doubt on the safety of vaccines—particularly the one for measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR). But in his new opinion piece about the ongoing measles outbreak, published March 2 in Fox News, Kennedy wrote that vaccines “not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”

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Kennedy’s acknowledgement of the value of the measles vaccine comes as the outbreak that began in Texas continues to grow. So far, nearly 150 cases and one death—the first U.S. fatality from the disease in more than 10 years—have been confirmed. It’s the largest measles outbreak in the U.S. in decades.

When Kennedy previously discussed the outbreak at a cabinet meeting last week, he did not mention vaccination.

However, in the Fox piece, Kennedy also wrote about th..