Winning Contest Entries

We set out to explain the new crop of health books that were exclusively in graphic novel format and the…

This story brings to light how dangerous illiteracy can be to a person’s health. Roughly 30 million adults read at…

American suburbs still have their appeal, but there’s a downside to having a green lawn and easy access to nearby…

“Patient influx stressing state hospitals” – Operating near capacity, the Osawatomie state hospital is seeking money from the Legislature to…

Series of stories on effects of National Cancer Institute clinical trial cutbacks; NCI’s backtracking on issue when cutbacks were rescinded;…

The article describes Air Force flight nurses transporting wounded soldiers from Iraq and Afghanistan, to Germany then home to the…

The story followed a report that 27 doctors, nurses and other staff members had been suspended – accused of taking…

The story illustrated the fact that insurers don’t cover mental health as well as physical health, and explored the impact…

This article describes the implementation of expanded cardiac services at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth, MA. Through a collaboration with Boston…

This focussed on the intersection between depression, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease for a Primary Care audience. There is an emerging,…

Sleep disorders in both adults and children show up on physicians’ radar screens more often than they did as recently…

The Medicare program established a national fee schedule for Part B Laboratory Testing Services in 1984. This national fee schedule…

For the last two decades, hemoglobin A1c has been a useful yet confusing concept. A measure of the proportion of…

Malaria is one of the world’s top killers, wiping out more than 1 million people each year. Yet for the…