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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- 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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- Public Health (small)
Mission Healthy: Locals lead the battle against obesity in Santa Paula
The Centers for Disease Control warned this year that one-half of young Latinos in this country would develop diabetes over…
- 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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- Public Health (small)
Children As Young As Ten Battling Eating Disorders
Magaly Olivero’s story illuminates one of the most pressing public health issues of our time: eating disorders and disordered eating,…
- 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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- Public Health (small)
Years Home, Female Iraq Vets Edure The Wounds Of War
Peggy McCarthy’s story chronicled the health, mental health and emotional struggles of every day life for three female veterans, years…
- 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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- Public Health (small)
Pesticide use by farmers linked to high rates of depression, suicides
The story is about a farmer who committed suicide after years of handling pesticides and the increasing scientific evidence that…
- 2014
Third Place
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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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- Public Health (small)
Keeping Hope Alive for Single-Payer System
I spent a Saturday at a conference put on by the California Health Professional Student Alliance discussing their hope for…
- 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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- Public Health (small)
How to Defuse the Population Bomb
Almost every big problem humanity is watching come down the pike is exacerbated by, connected to, or directly attributable to…
- 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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