Dominique Mosbergen

Dominique Mosbergen is a health correspondent at TIME covering public health, longevity, infectious diseases, and more.

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What to Know About ‘Anti-Aging’ Peptides

Wellness enthusiasts, biohackers, influencers, and celebrities are experimenting with unapproved peptide therapies. What does the science say about them?

By Dominique Mosbergen

Nima Nassiri

It was literally a back-of-the-envelope idea. Dr. Nima Nassiri had pulled out an envelope to scribble notes on how a bladder transplant could be accomplished in a living person—a surgery that had yet to be...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Catherine Wu

For decades, scientists have sought to create vaccines that treat cancer. Researchers like Dr. Catherine Wu, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, are moving the field closer to...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Michelle Lujan Grisham

Research shows that access to high-quality childcare can improve cognitive, academic, and social development in children, while free childcare can boost the emotional well-being and financial stability of parents and families. But across the U.S.,...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Susan Kressly

After U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that healthy children would no longer be advised to receive the COVID vaccine, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released its own...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Angela Doyinsola Aina

The U.S. has the highest maternal mortality rate of any wealthy nation. The crisis facing Black mothers is even starker: Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Margaret Carpenter

Dr. Margaret Carpenter co-founded the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine (ACT) after the overturning of Roe v. Wade to help women across the U.S. access abortion care. The group provides clinicians with legal and technical support...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Warris Bokhari

When Dr. Warris Bokhari was working for a large U.S. health insurer, he witnessed a fundamental problem first-hand: Since health insurance companies make financial products, they have competing priorities beyond patient care. U.S. insurers deny...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Calley Means

Calley Means rose from relative obscurity to a key role in the Trump Administration, helping U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to craft and coordinate an overhaul of the American diet...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Pascal Geldsetzer

What if a vaccine could curb the risk of dementia? Research led by Pascal Geldsetzer, a Stanford University assistant professor of medicine, suggests there’s already a shot that may do just that.  Recent studies published...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Susan Monarez

Susan Monarez was fired in August 2025 as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a move that drew attention amid broader debates over the direction of federal health policy under the...

By Dominique Mosbergen

John Evans

In March 2025, Beam Therapeutics and its CEO John Evans announced the results of an early-stage but groundbreaking clinical trial: A single infusion of its gene-editing therapy fixed a genetic mutation in nine people with...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Katherine Stueland

One in 10 Americans has a rare disease, and about half of them are children—but it takes about five years on average for kids with rare diseases to get a diagnosis in the U.S. Parents...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Jonathon Whitton

About 1 in 500 infants in the U.S. is born with hearing loss, most often caused by genetic factors. Hearing aids or cochlear implants can help children hear better, but kids fitted with these devices...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Darrell Irvine

Darrell Irvine has figured out how to make treatments and vaccines more potent so they do a better job at safely triggering the immune system to fight diseases such as cancer and HIV.  His lab,...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in February 2025, he has advanced his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda and played a pivotal role in re-shaping...

By Dominique Mosbergen

Can You Ski With a Torn ACL?

Skier Lindsey Vonn says she will compete at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics despite her ACL injury.

By Dominique Mosbergen

Can Aging Be Measured—and Eventually Reversed?

Researcher Steve Horvath speaks about his pioneering invention and what he thinks might be possible for human life extension.

By Dominique Mosbergen

How a Worm Helped Unlock the Biology of Aging

Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and her excitement for the future of longevity research and treatments.

By Dominique Mosbergen

The Race to Measure How We Age

As biological age tests proliferate, experts are excited about their potential—but warn of their limits.

By Dominique Mosbergen
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