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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vaccine advisory committee voted to stop recommending the combination vaccine protecting against measles, mumps, rubella, and chickenpox for children under the age of 4, indefinitely postponed a vote on the hepatitis B vaccine schedule, and moved away from a broad recommendation for the COVID-19 vaccine during a chaotic two-day meeting.

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On Thursday, in a vote of 8 to 3 with one abstention, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that children under the age of 4 no longer receive the MMRV shot, but get the MMR and varicella (chickenpox) vaccines separately. The committee was meant to vote on whether it would continue to recommend that all newborns should receive the hepatitis B vaccine, but decided on Friday to postpone that vote to a later date. On Friday afternoon, the committee rejected a proposal that would have recommended that state and local jurisdictions require a prescription for the COVID-19..

This year, TIME has published its first 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. Here’s how the companies were selected.

Methodology

The research project “World’s Top HealthTech Companies 2025” is a comprehensive international analysis conducted to identify the most innovative and impactful health technology companies across the globe. The study is based on three key evaluation pillars:

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Financial Performance

Reputation Analysis

Online Engagement

The first dimension, Financial Performance, was assessed through a detailed analysis of financial metrics, such as revenue per employee and funding amount. These metrics provided insight into the financial stability, growth pote..

If you can’t find the words to tell your significant other it’s over, it’s not you—it’s the fact that not much is harder to initiate than a breakup conversation.

That’s what Morgan Cope learned in her early 20s: “I would get so anxious to the point where I couldn’t physically say anything,” she recalls. Now, as an assistant professor of psychology at Centre College in Kentucky who researches breakups, she developed a framework that was both clear and compassionate in order to make it easier for people to stand their ground, rather than being coaxed into giving things another try.

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The result: a five-step script she calls “the breakup butterfly” that’s informed by relationship theory and data, and that she describes as “detailed and dignified.” If you decide to use it, start preparing your partner a day (or few hours) in advance by giving them a head’s up, she advises: “Hey, I’d like to talk. I’ve been thinking about some things.” In addition to not bl..

If you want to take a step toward better health, see a foot doctor. You might learn something about a totally different (and seemingly unrelated) part of your body.

Sometimes, “your feet are the first place where you can see warning signs of things like diabetes or vascular disease or even skin cancer,” says Hira Mirza, a podiatrist at CLS Health in Houston. “If you look closely enough, it really is a window to the rest of your health.”

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We asked experts about the foot-related symptoms you should never ignore—and what some of these issues can reveal about your health.

Hair that stops growing on your toes

When Anne Sharkey examines patients’ feet, she always checks the hair on their toes—prompting a quizzical reaction. “They’re like, ‘Why are you looking at my hair?’ And I tell them, ‘Because if it stops growing, we have a problem,’” says Sharkey, a podiatrist in Cedar Park, Texas. It could indicate vascular insufficiency, which means the body’s vein..

States across the U.S. have taken steps to ensure that COVID-19 vaccines are widely accessible after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved updated shots with new restrictions.

The agency last month authorized the new COVID-19 shots only for those over the age of 65 and people with underlying health conditions, a move that marked a major change from past policies and reportedly went against the recommendations of FDA scientists.

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The announcement came after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), following guidance from Health and Human Services Secretary and prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., stopped recommending the COVID-19 shot to healthy children and pregnant women earlier this year.

At least two major medical associations have since issued vaccine guidance contradicting the Administration’s new advice: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends all children ages 6 to 23 months get the COVID-19 vac..

We are entering a new era of obesity. The science of weight loss has changed forever: Drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are helping millions shed weight they once thought impossible to lose. At the same time, research is revealing the role of ultra-processed foods in driving obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, even beyond calories alone.

But for all the breakthroughs, governments are stuck. Caught between the pharmaceutical revolution on one side and a trillion-dollar food industry on the other, they face a defining question: Will we settle for treating obesity, or will we finally tackle its causes?

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Because here’s the uncomfortable truth: Weight-loss drugs are extraordinary, but they are not a solution on their own.

A scientific breakthrough—and a political dilemma

GLP-1 drugs have been nothing short of miraculous for many. Originally designed for diabetes, they suppress appetite and help people lose 15–20% of their body weight. Patients w..

Your Apple Watch can now alert you if you’re showing signs of hypertension—a new feature cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Sept. 11.

The feature does not diagnose high blood pressure or take blood pressure readings. Instead, it relies on the watch’s optical heart sensor to analyze how the blood vessels contract and expand in response to the heart’s pumping. Over time, the data collected can reveal signs of hypertension and trigger an alert. Users can see a report generated by the data and consult their doctor for further evaluation.

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The hypertension feature will soon be available on all Apple Watch Series 9 models and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models—plus their newer versions—in more than 150 countries.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), about half of U.S. adults have high blood pressure, and a significant proportion of them don’t know they have the condition. Only about a quarter are keeping their blood pressure under c..

In December, a scientific committee concluded two years of intensive research on what Americans should be eating by saying that there was not enough research to recommend people drink any other type of milk than fat-free (skim) or low-fat (1% or 2%). Whole milk contains high amounts of saturated fat, and research has found that saturated fat raises cholesterol and is linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular problems.

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But the Trump Administration—and some scientists—disagree with this assessment. In its Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Strategy Report released Sept. 9, the administration says it wants to “remove restrictions on whole milk sales in schools,” which would allow districts to offer full-fat dairy options, and that the departments will “eliminate mandatory reduced-fat requirements in federal nutrition programs to allow consumer choice.”

In a press conference on Sept. 9, administration officials doubled down on their embrace of whole ..

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Millions of people around the world are estimated to have Chagas disease, a potentially fatal, parasitic illness that can lie dormant for years after the initial infection.

Some 280,000 people in the U.S. are among them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), but the disease is not officially considered endemic to the country like it is in 21 others in the Americas. Public health experts argued in a report published in this month’s issue of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Emerging Infectious Diseases journal that it should be.

“Increasing evidence” of the parasites that cause Chagas disease “challenges that n..

The next time you get a blood test, X-ray, mammogram, or colonoscopy, there’s a good chance an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm will first interpret the results even before your doctor has seen it.

Over the course of just a few years, AI has spread rapidly into hospitals and clinics around the world. More than 1,000 health-related AI tools have been authorized for use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and more than 2 in 3 physicians say they use AI to some degree, according to a recent survey by the American Medical Association. The potential is extraordinary. AI—particularly in the form of AI agents that can reason, adapt, and act on their own—can lighten doctors’ workloads by drafting patient notes and chart summaries, support precision medicine through more targeted therapies, and flag subtle abnormalities in scans and slides that a human eye might miss. It can speed discovery of drugs and drug targets through new processes, such as AI-driven protein structure p..