“Bipolar Angst”: The story follows three local families with children with pediatric bipolar disorder for a month, illustrates their struggles and the misunderstanding that exists about diagnosing young children with bipolar and treating them with medications.
“Globetrotting”: Linda Moehlman tells how she went to Brazil for weight-loss surgery last year because her health insurance wouldn’t cover the cost of surgery in the United States. The story examines the medical tourism trend.
“Addiction”: Part of a three-day series examining the science behind addiction as a brain disease, this story explains how drugs of abuse – specifically abused prescription drugs – change brain function and structure.
“Deadly diet”: The second part of a five-day series on the high rates of diabetes, hypertension and kidney disease among South Carolina’s black community, this story takes a close look at how improper diet and lack of exercise fuel health problems.
Overall beat: Focus on mental health, addiction, HIV/AIDS, health disparities and uninsured.
See the archived story and the contest questionnaire about how the story was written.