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)
Alive Inside
Among the untold thousands of patients living in U.S. nursing homes and believed to be in a vegetative state following…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Struggling for care
The San Joaquin Valley lacks doctors. For every 100,000 residents, the Valley has 39 primary care physicians-22 percent less than…
- 2017
First Place
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- Public Health (small)
The opioid crisis
The Opioid Crisis is a series of stories examining how the health system is responding to the opioid overdose epidemic.…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Wasted Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine estimated in 2012 that the United States wastes about $765 million of the money spent…
- 2017
First Place
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- Investigative (large)
Mexico blackouts
For years, people grappled with shame, guilt and — in many cases — the horror of what happened to them…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Public Health (large)
Lost Mothers
The “Lost Mothers” project by ProPublica and NPR is a sweeping examination of why the U.S. is perhaps the most…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
A time to heal
The primary challenge facing Milwaukee and similar high-poverty cities is not one of the usual suspects – education, crime, even…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
Charities and the lure of capitalism
This is an in-depth examnation of the strategy some charities are taking to develop new drugs by using approaches developed…
- 2017
Second Place
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- Beat Reporting
A ‘cure’ for autism at any cost
For more than 30 years, desperate parents have been flocking to a remote campus in western Massachusetts to learn about…
- 2017
First Place
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- Public Health (small)
What’s killing Indiana’s infants
Your ZIP code matters more than your genetic code. Where you live predicts how long you will live. That’s what…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Beat Reporting
April Dembosky’s 2017 Body of Work
April Dembosky’s work this year demonstrates a range of reporting skills, from meeting relentless breaking news deadlines on Congressional efforts…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Health Policy (large)
The new price of hope
Almost exactly a year after the US Food and Drug Administration approved a revolutionary new genetic treatment for spinal muscular…
- 2017
First Place
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- Beat Reporting
To save a life, doctors turn to bacteria-killing viruses
The story is about the use of bacteriophage therapy, an experimental therapy using bacteria-killing viruses, to save the life of…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Health Policy (small)
Voice of the People
The FDA considers input from the public when they approve new drugs. The legacy of the AIDS epidemic has helped…
- 2017
Third Place
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- Public Health (large)
In harm’s way
As the health and medicine reporter for the Tampa Bay Times, I had a hunch that pediatric gun injuries were…
- 2017
Second Place
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