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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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
Bad Bargain
Regulators, politicians, employers and insurers have assured Americans that generic drugs – which will soon comprise 80 percent of the…
- 2009
First Place
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- General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.
The Stranger who Saved Me,’ Self Magazine
The article follows the story of a bone marrow transplant, tracking both the leukemia-ridden recipient and the anonymous donor who…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
An unusual collection of cancers,’ CR Magazine
Defining a cancer cluster is easy. But determining whether a group of cancers is not a random event but an…
- 2009
No Award
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- Community Newspapers
Baby Steps Toward Recovery,’ The Columbian
A "clubhouse" for people recovering from mental health crises provides the compassion and peer support, daily routines and professional guidance…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Jani’s at the Mercy of her Mind
This story describes the efforts of a family to obtain an accurate diagnosis, satisfactory medical care and outpatient services for…
- 2009
Second Place
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- Metro Newspapers
24 Hours in the ER,’ USA Today
With the cooperation of the University of Virginia Medical Center, USA Today reporters and photographers spent 24 hours in the…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Markers of Dispute,’ Nature Medicine
Reporter Virginia Hughes tells the story of Robert Getzenberg's discovery of a potential prostate cancer biomarker, EPCA-2. Since he discovered…
- 2009
No Award
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- Radio
Testing a New Way to Provide Health Care,’ WHYY
On TV, Cheers was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name. Some people think a doctor’s office should…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Are doctors what ails U.S. healthcare?’ Reuters
The story used data from the Dartmouth Atlas to show that simply adding more doctors will not drive down costs…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Rules of engagement,’ Associated Press
Associated Press Science Writer Alicia Chang chronicles the journey of a teenager with autism as shelearns the ins and outs…
- 2009
No Award
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- Community Newspapers
A New Attitude,’ Hemaware magazine
This story focuses on the devastating effect HIV had on the hemophilia community in the 1980s and 1990s – an…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Behind The Healthcare Debate,’ The Sacramento Bee
In many ways, Tony Andrade, 47, of Sacramento, is the Everyman of President Barack Obama's push for overhauling the country's…
- 2009
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Chasing the Worm,’ British Medical Journal
The story chronicles Guinea worm disease (GWD) eradication efforts in southern Sudan. This very troubled country has made dramatic strides…
- 2009
No Award
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- Metro Newspapers
Children and Swine Flu,’ The (Baltimore) Sun
The Sun took an in-depth look at the life and death of 14-year-old Destinee Parker, the first child in Maryland…
- 2009
No Award
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- 2TV (Below Top 20 markets)
Generics Versus Brands,’ MedPage Today
Pharmacists are allowed – and in some states mandated – to swap a brand name drug for its generic counterpart,…
- 2009
No Award
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