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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- Beat Reporting
Veracyte: How to Build a Molecular Cytology Company
Veracyte, a 2008 start-up company, launched a complex molecular diagnostic test that provides guidance on the potential malignancy of thyroid…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Stop Scaring Patients’: How Esophageal Cancer Evolves
Monitoring strategies for reflux patients diagnosed with Barrett’s esophagus are based on the flawed concept that there is a gradual…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Feds Beginning to Regulate Fecal Transplantation
Fecal microbiota transplants aren’t new – they’ve been recorded in medical texts as early as the 4th Ming Dynasty. But…
- 2013
No Award
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- Public Health (large)
Typhoon Haiyan
Over the course of eight days last November, Dr. Nancy Snyderman and her team covered the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan…
- 2013
No Award
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- Health Policy (large)
The HIPAA/HITECH Omnibus Final Rule: Implications for Clinical Research, Compliance and Enforcement
Review of HIPAA/HITECH: Implications for Clinical Research and Compliance and Enforcement, Part I and Part II
- 2013
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
No Small Thing
For its May 19 report, the Journal used 3,000 pages of internal government emails and to show how the nation’s…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Depression and the Brain
As the brain begins to reveal its secrets to researchers, it is opening new hope for the treatment of depression.…
- 2013
No Award
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- Business (small)
BioBeat
“Why Good Drugs Sometimes Fail in the Market” explained why a targeted cancer drug failed, despite evidence that it was…
- 2013
First Place
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- Investigative (large)
Breakdown
BREAKDOWN was a set of Star Tribune stories examining failures in Minnesota’s public mental health system that have left thousands…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Suicide epidemic in Montana
Uken’s series of articles focused on Montana’s epidemic suicide rate, which is twice the national average with more frequent suicides…
- 2013
First Place
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- Health Policy (small)
After the Raid
In April 2012, federal agents raided Oaksterdam University, a move that sent ripples throughout Oakland’s well-established cannabis industry and raised…
- 2013
No Award
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- Health Policy (large)
Heartbreaking Medicare Gap For Young Transplant Patients
This story highlighted the issue of the cessation of post kidney transplant coverage for anti rejection and other crucial medications…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Cheaper Home Dialysis is Poised for Growth
This piece highlights the underutilization of peritoneal dialysis as an attractive, economic and feasible modality of dialysis in the United…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Anna Gorman’s 2013 Body of Work
Community clinics in Los Angeles and around the nation are expected to become one of the centerpieces of healthcare reform.…
- 2013
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
India’s Cancer Surge
The chaotic scenes at Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Hospital are a window into a medical crisis threatening to cripple a health…
- 2013
No Award
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