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)
Why Dieting Must Die
In millions upon millions of U.S. households, parents go on diets by themselves and leave their spouse, and more importantly…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
The course of their lives
This feature story follows a group of six first-year students at the Medical College of Wisconsin through the most pivotal…
- 2013
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
Lisa Zamosky’s 2013 Body of Work
It’s great to have a steady voice like Lisa Zamosky guiding readers through all the craziness around health insurance headlines…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Your Safer Surgery Survival Guide
Up to 30 percent of patients suffer infections, heart attacks, strokes, or other complications after surgery and sometimes even die…
- 2013
No Award
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- Investigative (large)
UT-San Diego
Prompted by a tip that residents in some assisted living homes were dying from bedsores, the reporters began a 10-month…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
From Every Angle
More than 20,000 Americans each year are diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that that causes painful bone lesions. Multiple…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Living With A Bionic Pancreas
The two articles combine systemic information about the bionic pancreas with poignant narratives describing the life-changing potential of this technology…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Identity Theft Scheme Leads Police to Discover PHI Leak
In August of 2012, law enforcement officials were elbow deep in evidence involving a check fraud scheme with activity in…
- 2013
No Award
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- Health Policy (large)
The New State of Health Care
At the heart of the health overhaul law is a fundamental shift in the way health insurance is priced: the…
- 2013
No Award
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- Business (small)
The Future Of Skilled Nursing M&A
Skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) have been maligned in the press and in the business community as an obsolete care setting…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Surprising Ways to Cut Your Drug Costs
With the help of our Consumer Reports National Research Center survey group and our team of Consumer Reports Best Buy…
- 2013
No Award
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- Investigative (large)
Respecting Donor Demands
Dr. Giselle Sholler brought her pediatric cancer research program to Van Andel Institute amid great fanfare. She also had a…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Carol Ostrom’s 2013 Body of Work
These four stories comprise the health beat for Carol Ostrom at the Seattle Times: “Wonder cure for gut: FDA allows…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
The CRO Market Consolidates
Clinical research organizations (known as CROs) are a subset of the biotechnology, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Mergers and acquisitions…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
New Knee, New Life
The stories followed the knee replacement surgery of 52-year-old John Favaloro, from his pre-surgical physical therapy, to his first steps…
- 2013
No Award
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