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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- Public Health (small)
Keeping Hope Alive for Single-Payer System
I spent a Saturday at a conference put on by the California Health Professional Student Alliance discussing their hope for…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Brave and afraid and heading down the longest road
This three-part narrative series, about a young man battling chronic mental illness, offered a close look at the failures of…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
How to Defuse the Population Bomb
Almost every big problem humanity is watching come down the pike is exacerbated by, connected to, or directly attributable to…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Frontiers of Medical Technology
In this occasional series of radio stories, NPR Health Correspondent Rob Stein explores how new technology is changing medicine, and…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Access to Good Food as Preventive Medicine
This article discussed the effect of food insecurity (i.e., problems paying for food) on health. Nearly one in three U.S.…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
The Ultra-Rare Erdheim-Chester Disease: Turning Grief into a Campaign for a Cure
“This is the story of how an individual with no medical background and limited funding channeled grief into action to…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Children stuck in crisis
The number of children and teens who go to the emergency department in psychiatric crisis has been rising for years,…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
Saving Babies Lives Before They’re Born…And After
“Robin Karr-Morse, Author of “The Ghosts From The Nursery” and “Scared Sick,” discusses the impact of pre-birth and birth trauma…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
The Risks of Home Birth
Women often avoid hospital births in fear of a medicalized birth experience, but are generally unaware of the very high…
- 2014
First Place
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
One of a Kind: What Do You Do If Your Child Has a Condition That Is New to Science?
The story followed a family whose five-year-old son was the first ever case of a rare genetic disease. The child…
- 2014
No Award
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- Public Health (small)
Intelligent Life
If you go to the doctor or psychiatrist, they probably won’t ask you how much light you are getting. But…
- 2014
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (small)
Almost Without Hope: Seeking a Path to Health on the Rosebud Indian Reservation
Statistically speaking, the poor health of Native Americans living the Great Plains of the United States rivals many developing countries.…
- 2013
No Award
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- Consumer/Feature (large)
A Window into Life with Medical Pot
Colorado’s therapeutic cannabis industry launched in earnest in late 2009, triggering a “green rush” that boosted the state’s economy. Big…
- 2013
No Award
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- Beat Reporting
Sue Thoms’ 2013 Body of Work
Health care is personal and local – and that comes through in this collection of stories about health care in…
- 2013
No Award
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- Investigative (small)
The Cancer Letter: Conflicts of Interest at MD Anderson Cancer Center
In a series of investigative stories that has been running for over two years, The Cancer Letter editor Paul Goldberg…
- 2013
No Award
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