Ms. Gorman inaugurated the magazine's personal health section in 1998 with her award-winning "Your Health" column, which helps readers make use of the week's top health and medical news. She also writes for the science section of TIME. Covers include the recent "Secrets of Eating Smarter," "Women and Heart Disease," and "Diabetes: Are You at Risk?" She also wrote for TIME's 1996 Man of the Year issue on AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho.

Born in Bordeaux, France and raised in Pennsylvania and Texas, Ms. Gorman taught high school biology in the Houston Independent School District after graduating from Rice University in 1982, with a B.A. in English and Biology. In 1984, she received her M.A. from Johns Hopkins in the Program in Writing About Science. She is a member of the American Medical Writers Association and the National Association of Science Writers.