Reporter Melinda Beck writes a weekly consumer health column for The Wall Street Journal. Her selections for this contest include stories on the following: Why you should be skeptical about observational studies; the origin of the Apgar score for newborns; silencing your "inner critic;" and a tongue-in-cheek proposal for two new medical journals detailing obvious findings and extremely obscure findings.
See the archived entry and questionnaire in which the reporter writes about how this story was written.