Winning Contest Entries
Explore a diverse array of entries that have participated in our contests over the years. These entries represent the incredible talent, creativity, and dedication of journalists and storytellers from various backgrounds and media platforms.
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- Business (large)
The Medicare Advantage Money Grab
“The Medicare Advantage Money Grab” revealed nearly $70 billion in “improper” Medicare payments to the health plans from 2008 through…
- 2014
Second Place
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- Business (large)
Few and Far Between: Health Insurance Choices in Rural, Northern California
“In a three-part series, Pauline Bartolone explores why rural northern Californians are facing new challenges with individual health insurance. When…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
The Next Mayo
The Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic has built a towering reputation by providing excellent care — and charging accordingly. But the transformation…
- 2014
No Award
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- Business (large)
“Is Athenahealth CEO Jonathan Bush in a bubble?”
The CEO of medical IT company Athenahealth, Jonathan Bush, has a big vision for reforming and revolutionizing the health care…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Face of Hope
The history of military medicine tells a strange tale of innovation through bloodshed, as healers in crisis conjure new remedies…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
“He’s Having Fun Defying Cancer Shooting a Rifle Before Billiards”
Tom Galjour’s Stage 4 small-cell lung cancer was supposed to kill him long ago and it almost did. Then, one…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
“Colgate Total Component Hormonal, Cancer Link Spotlights FDA Process”
Kary explored the risks posed by antibacterial chemical triclosan in Colgate Total toothpaste, in part by examining pages of Colgate-Palmolive’s…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
“Baseball Caught Looking as Fouls Injure 1,750 Fans a Year”
In a first of its kind analysis, this article answered questions that Major League Baseball has never publicly addressed: Are…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
As Earth Warms, West Nile Spreads
When West Nile first arrived in the U.S. 1999, it brought with it panic and the promise of a cure,…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Cancer Decisions Get Personal – When the Writer Becomes the Patient
When a health journalist (me) gets a controversial cancer diagnosis, she learns how complicated it is to parse out population-wide…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
The End of Night
This is a reported narrative essay about the health consequences of a world without darkness. The story fuses scientific findings…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Brave and afraid and heading down the longest road
This three-part narrative series, about a young man battling chronic mental illness, offered a close look at the failures of…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Frontiers of Medical Technology
In this occasional series of radio stories, NPR Health Correspondent Rob Stein explores how new technology is changing medicine, and…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
The Ultra-Rare Erdheim-Chester Disease: Turning Grief into a Campaign for a Cure
“This is the story of how an individual with no medical background and limited funding channeled grief into action to…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Saving Babies Lives Before They’re Born…And After
“Robin Karr-Morse, Author of “The Ghosts From The Nursery” and “Scared Sick,” discusses the impact of pre-birth and birth trauma…
- 2014
No Award
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