Trade Journalism Award Finalists


2024 Finalist

Quest's Alzheimer's Blood Test Has Experts Concerned

MedPage Today

Judy George

Article

2024 Finalist

MedPage Exclusive Series: “What's the Matter With For-Profit Nursing Programs?”

MedPage Today

Shannon Firth

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2024 Finalist

The world's first CRISPR medicine

BioPharma Dive

Ned Pagliarulo, Gwendolyn Wu, Shaun Lucas, and Julia Himmel

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2024 Finalist

Problems with grateful patient programs

ACP Hospitalist

Stacey Butterfield

Article

2024 Finalist

For a Pivotal Vaccine: Trial, Error, and Two Young Lives

Undark Magazine

Michael Schulson

Article

2024 Finalist

How a key viral database was mismanaged during the COVID-19 pandemic

Science Magazine

Martin Enserink and Jon Cohen

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2024 Finalist

Brain Games: Misconduct concerns, possible drug risks should stop major stroke trial, whistleblowers say

Science Magazine

Charles Piller

Part 1 Part 2

2024 Finalist

The impacts of experimental treatments

MIT Technology Review

Jessica Hamzelou

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

2024 Finalist

At $20K, Stem Cell Eye Injections May Also Cost Patients Their Sight

MedPage Today

Sophie Putka

Article

2024 Finalist

Delays and neglect: How the FDA's lax oversight fails consumers

Bloomberg Law

Celine Castronuovo, Andrew Wallender, Ronnie Greene, Gary Harki, Julie Steinberg, Kaustuv Basu, and Alex Ruoff

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2023 Finalist

What to expect when you’re expecting an extra X or Y chromosome

MIT Technology Review

Bonnie Rochman

Article

2023 Finalist

Not Reported: When Radioactive Imaging Agent Leaks Into Tissue

Medscape

Sharon Worcester

Article

2023 Finalist

Sophie Putka’s “Scams in Healthcare” Reporting in 2022

MedPage Today

Sophie Putka

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

2023 Finalist

Monkeypox series

Science

Jon Cohen and Kai Kupferschmidt

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

2023 Finalist

A battle is raging over long covid in children

MIT Technology Review

Jessica Hamzelou

Article

2023 Finalist

A biotech paused a gene therapy hatched by families. Now they want control

Endpoints News

Jared Whitlock

Article

2023 Finalist

What Happens When a Bionic Body Part Becomes Obsolete?

IEEE Spectrum

Eliza Strickland and Mark Harris

Part 1 Part 2

2023 Finalist

Blots on a field?

Science

Charles Piller and Meagan Weiland

Article

2023 Finalist

The Topic of Cancer

Washington Business Journal

Sara Gilgore

Article

2023 Finalist

The COVID Generation: how is the pandemic affecting kids’ brains?

Nature

Melinda Wenner Moyer

Article

2022 Finalist

Nurse Rehabilitation Series

MedPage Today

Ryan Basen, Cheryl Clark, Kristina Fiore, and Shannon Firth

7/29/21 7/29/21 8/3/21 9/8/21

2022 Finalist

Correcting Medicine's Use of Race

ACP Hospitalist

Stacey Butterfield

1/15/21

2022 Finalist

Legal Counsel: A Health Care Partner For Immigrant Communities

Health Affairs

Rebecca Gale

8/1/21

2022 Finalist

Inequality's Deadly Toll: A century of research has demonstrated how poverty and discrimination drive disease. Can Covid push science to finally address the issue?

Nature

Amy Maxmen

4/28/21

2022 Finalist

We Must Improve Equity in Cancer Screening

Scientific American

Melba Newsome

12/1/21

2022 Finalist

Divided We Sleep

Science Magazine

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

10/28/21

2022 Finalist

A rare but real side effect: How scientists recognized deadly complications after the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines

Science Magazine

Gretchen Vogel and Kai Kupferschmidt

3/17/21 3/27/21 5/3/21

2022 Finalist

Flying blind: Gaps in COVID-19 surveillance during a global pandemic

Science Magazine

Meredith Wadman, Elizabeth Culotta, and Kelly Franklin

2/9/21 3/10/21 5/14/21

2022 Finalist

No More Men Need to Die From Transrectal Prostate Biopsies - A movement toward transperineal biopsies

MedPageToday

Howard Wolinsky

4/21/21

2022 Finalist

The Ultimate Incubator: The Brave New World of Bionic Babies

IEEE Spectrum

Katarina Zimmer

3/30/21

2021 Finalist

MFAR rule cuts Medicaid spending, increasing the CMS' power

Modern Healthcare

Michael Brady

2/8/2020

2021 Finalist

Is the Tide Turning on the 'Grubby' Affair of EXCEL and the European Guidelines?

Medscape

Deborah Cohen and Ed Brown

9/30/2020

2021 Finalist

COVID-19 Provider Relief Accountability

Modern Healthcare

Rachel Cohrs

4/26/2020 6/18/2020 9/1/2020 9/18/2020

2021 Finalist

How Aripiprazole's Promise for Treating Autism Fell Short

Spectrum

Hannah Furfaro

2/19/2020

2021 Finalist

An Unhealthy Toll

Washington Business Journal

Sara Gilgore

4/17/2020 4/24/2020 4/24/2020 6/5/2020 9/25/2020

2021 Finalist

Pull the Pieces Together and Find the Soul

Provider

Joanne Kaldy

3/1/2020

2021 Finalist

Pharmacists in Ohio managing care as providers--and getting paid for it too

Modern Healthcare

Shelby Livingston

9/26/20

2021 Finalist

Investigation into Surgisphere Corporation

The Scientist

Catherine Offord

5/27/2020 5/30/2020 6/02/2020 6/04/2020 6/07/2020 6/16/2020

2021 Finalist

The Antibody Drugs Made Against COVID-19

MIT Technology Review

Antonio Regalado

4/10/2020 10/2/2020 10/7/2020

2021 Finalist

This is What Health Systems Change Looks Like

Health Affairs

Rob Waters

2/2020 3/2020 7/2020 9/2020

2020 Finalist

Ballad Health at Odds with Community over Controversial Changes

Modern Healthcare

Tara Bannow

9/18/2019 9/19/2019 9/20/2019 9/23/2019

2020 Finalist

Doddering Doctors: Hospitals Take a Stab at Weeding Them Out

MedPage Today

Cheryl Clark

3/14/2019 3/21/2019 5/7/2019

2020 Finalist

Peripheral Vision: As Office-Based Practices Proliferate, Who Is Watching Out for Patients?

TCTMD

Caitlin E. Cox

5/1/2019

2020 Finalist

US Air Ambulances: Expensive, Risky, and Regulation-Averse

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/921615

Jeff Wise

11/20/2019

2020 Finalist

Is Private Equity Ownership of Physician Practices Sustainable?

Modern Healthcare

Harris Meyer

7/24/2019 8/31/2019 8/31/2019 8/31/2019

2020 Finalist

To Err Is a Leadership Failure

Modern Healthcare

Harris Meyer, Maria Castellucci

11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019 11/9/2019

2020 Finalist

Dubious Diagnosis

Science

Charles Piller

3/8/2019

2020 Finalist

Don't count on having kids if you freeze your eggs (online); Honey, I froze the kids (print)

MIT Technology Review

Bonnie Rochman

8/14/2019

2020 Finalist

Why Are Mothers Still Passing Syphilis to Their Babies?

The Journal of the American Medical Association

Rita Rubin

2/26/2019

2020 Finalist

IBM Watson, Heal Thyself

IEEE Spectrum

Eliza Strickland

4/2/2019

2019 Finalist

How Catholic Religious Rules Complicated a Big Hospital Merger

Modern Healthcare

Tara Bannow, Harris Meyer

7/19/18 8/11/18 8/11/18 10/16/18 11/21/18

2019 Finalist

Rural Hospital Lab Billing Series

Modern Healthcare

Tara Bannow

6/23/2018 6/23/2018 7/25/2018 12/1/2018 12/6/2018

2019 Finalist

Health Care Quality: Motherhood and Apple Pie Until You Start to Measure It,

Managed Care

Lola Butcher

September 2018

2019 Finalist

The Sunshine State’s Dark Cloud

Science

Jon Cohen, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

6/15/2018

2019 Finalist

Overworked and Saddled with Debt, Nurses Turn to Side Gigs to Make Ends Meet

LinkedIn

Jaimy Lee

11/28/2018

2019 Finalist

When Antibiotics Turn Toxic

Nature

Jo Marchant

3/21/2018

2019 Finalist

When Surgical Innovation Kills

The Cancer Letter

Matthew Ong

5/18/2018 Video 5/25/2018 11/2/2018

2019 Finalist

Two sick children and a $1.5 million bill: One family’s race for a gene therapy cure

MIT Technology Review

Antonio Regalado

November/December 2018

2019 Finalist

The Best Medical Care in the World

The New England Journal of Medicine

Brendan M. Reilly

May 2018

2018 Finalist

State Legislatures Wade into MOC Debate

MedPage Today

Cheryl Clark

5/11/2017

2018 Finalist

Genomic Medicine Goes Mainstream

Modern Healthcare

Joseph Conn

2/20/2017

2018 Finalist

Working with a Chronic Disease

Health Affairs

TR Goldman

February 2017

2018 Finalist

Autism’s Drug Problem

Spectrum

Lauren Gravitz

4/19/2017

2018 Finalist

The Cancer Lottery

MIT Technology Review

Stephen S. Hall

January/February 2017

2018 Finalist

Playing with the Odds

New Scientist

Jessica Hamzelou

11/29/2017

2018 Finalist

Behavioral Health: Fixing a System in Crisis

Modern Healthcare

Steven Ross Johnson and Harris M. Meyer

5/29/2017

2018 Finalist

Three Parent Babies

MIT Technology Review

Emily Mullin

6/13/2017 8/7/2017

2018 Finalist

When Dying Becomes Unaffordable

Medscape

Roxanne Eileen Nelson

11/9/2017

2018 Finalist

Emerging Trends in Genetic Testing

MIT Technology Review

Antonio Regalado

6/15/2017 10/18/2017 11/1/2017 11/15/2017 12/22/2017

2017 Finalist

Pocket Psychiatry

Nature

Emily Anthes

4/7/2016

2017 Finalist

Redrawing Your Circle of Influence

HealthLeaders

Debra Beaulieu

July/August 2016

2017 Finalist

Beyond the M&M: Hospitals review every death to flag problems, jump-start quality improvement

ACP Hospitalist

Janet Colwell

September 2016

2017 Finalist

Regulating reproduction

New Scientist

Jessica Hamzelou

12/10/2016

2017 Finalist

Wounded Care

Modern Healthcare

Bob Herman and Fan Fei

12/2/2016

2017 Finalist

America’s Drug Problem

Nature Biotechnology

Brady Huggett

11/14/2016

2017 Finalist

Surgeons' move to outpatient joint replacements threatens hospitals

Modern Healthcare

Harris Meyer

6/4/2016

2017 Finalist

Can CRISPR Save Ben Dupree?

MIT Technology Review

Antonio Regalado

10/16/2016

2017 Finalist

The Big Business of Dialysis Care

NEJM Catalyst

Ron Shinkman

6/9/2016

2017 Finalist

The Builders: How Parents Shaped Autism Research

Spectrum

Jocelyn Wiener

10/5/2016

2016 Finalist

Save Blood, Save Lives

Nature

Emily Anthes

4/2/15

2016 Finalist

The Trouble with Checklists

Nature

Emily Anthes

7/30/15

2016 Finalist

Miami’s Model for Decriminalizing Mental Illness in America

Governing

John Buntin

August 2015

2016 Finalist

Call for Standardization and Quality Assurance for Medical Marijuana Products

Practical Pain Management

Kristin Della Volpe

September 2015

2016 Finalist

The Most Expensive Ride of Your Life

Baltimore Business Journal

Sarah Gantz

8/28/15

2016 Finalist

Prescribing a Climate Remedy

Modern Healthcare

Bob Herman

11/16/15

2016 Finalist

Coming to America: Neglected Tropical Diseases Taking Hold in U.S.

Modern Healthcare

Steven Ross Johnson

10/10/15

2016 Finalist

Unequal States: Mapping Healthcare’s Diverging Paths

Modern Healthcare

Beth Kutscher

June and November 2015

2016 Finalist

How Medical Devices Do Harm

The Cancer Letter

Matthew Ong

12/18/15 12/18/15 12/18/15 11/20/15 11/20/15 11/20/15 4/10/15

2016 Finalist

Engineering the Perfect Baby

MIT Technology Review

Antonio Regalado

3/5/15

2015 Finalist

Sepsis Success

HealthLeaders

Cheryl Clark

June 2014

2015 Finalist

Maryland's Hospital Regulation Experiment

Baltimore Business Journal

Sarah Gantz

2/21/14 5/30/14 8/15/14 10/17/14 11/28/14

2015 Finalist

A Changing Landscape for Academic Medicine

Modern Healthcare

Bob Herman

7/5/14

2015 Finalist

Disinvesting in Climate Change

Modern Healthcare

Bob Herman

8/2/14

2015 Finalist

Two Americas

Modern Healthcare

Beth Kutscher

8/16/14

2015 Finalist

Population Health: Risks and Rewards

Hospitals & Health Networks

Howard Larkin

February 2014 May 2014 October 2014 December 2014

2015 Finalist

Forget Me Not

Human Resources Executive

Carol Patton

5/7/14

2015 Finalist

Bariatric Surgery and the Obesity Battle

HealthLeaders

Tinker Ready

5/26/14

2015 Finalist

Spotting Cancer in a Vial of Blood

MIT Technology Review

Antonio Regalado

8/11/14

2015 Finalist

The Ratings Maze

Modern Healthcare

Sabriya Rice

5/31/14

2014 Finalist

Centering on Excellence

Human Resource Executive

Will Bunch

4/4/13

2014 Finalist

Too Many or Too Few: Who Belongs in the ICU?

ACP Hospitalist

Stacey Butterfield

February 2013

2014 Finalist

You Don’t Always Get What You Pay For

Modern Healthcare

Joe Carlson

10/26/13

2014 Finalist

Acing Acute Care for Elders

HealthLeaders

Cheryl Clark

9/9/13

2014 Finalist

Biting the All Cause Readmissions Bullet

HealthLeaders

Cheryl Clark

5/13/13

2014 Finalist

Pulse on Pricing

Workforce

Charlotte Huff

9/11/13

2014 Finalist

Sparking Controversy

Modern Healthcare

Steven Ross Johnson

9/23/13

2014 Finalist

Rethinking the formula

Nature Medicine

Roxanne Khamsi

5/7/13

2014 Finalist

Quality Paradox

Modern Healthcare

Maureen McKinney, Melanie Evans

1/7/13

2014 Finalist

Registry-based clinical trial puts heart treatment to the test

Modern Healthcare

Maureen McKinney

11/4/13

2014 Finalist

Retail Clinics

Hospitals & Health Networks

Marty Stempniak

October 2013

2013 Finalist

Tight Squeeze

Health Data Management

Gary Baldwin

November 2012

2013 Finalist

Healthcare in Motion

Modern Healthcare

Paul Barr

5/14/12 6/18/12 7/23/12

2013 Finalist

Drug Shortages Ease, but Have We Gotten to the Root of the Problem?

Biotechnology Healthcare

John Carroll

Fall 2012

2013 Finalist

Sincerest Form of Flattery

Modern Healthcare

Rich Daly

1/9/12

2013 Finalist

Market Meld

Modern Healthcare

Jaimy Lee

5/26/12

2013 Finalist

Hospitalists Confront Physician Shortages in Two Fields

The Hospitalist

Bryn Nelson

August 2012 October 2012

2013 Finalist

Health Care—a Real Fixer-Upper

Workforce Management

Rita Pyrillis

August 2012

2013 Finalist

The Many Stories Of One Highly Litigious Physician

Payers & Providers

Ron Shinkman

5/31/12

2012 Finalist

Clinical Management

Hospitals and Health Networks

Geri Aston

February 2011 April 2011 September 2011 October 2011 December 2011

2012 Finalist

The $80 Billion Question

Health Data Management

Gary Baldwin

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2012 Finalist

Chronic Care, Chronic I.T. Problems

Health Data Management

Gary Baldwin

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2012 Finalist

A Dental Hygienist Who's A Lakota Sioux Calls For New Mid-Level Dental Providers

Health Affairs

Maxine Brings Him Back-Janis

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2012 Finalist

Ending Medicaid As We Know It

Governing Magazine

John Buntin

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2012 Finalist

Out in the Open

Modern Healthcare

Melanie Evans, Joe Carlson

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2012 Finalist

HM@15

The Hospitalist

Bryn Nelson

August 2011 September 2011 October 2011 November 2011

2011 Finalist

Dueling Diagnoses

Governing Magazine

John Buntin

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2011 Finalist

Special Report: A BNA Examination Into the Potential Impact of Electronic Health Record Evidence in Malpractice Litigation

BNA's Health Law Report

Jeff Day, Peyton M. Sturges

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2011 Finalist

Coaching with Care

Modern Healthcare

Maureen McKinney

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2011 Finalist

Better Off in Prison?

Behavioral Healthcare

H. Steven Moffic, MD

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2011 Finalist

Meet Larry Riddles: A Doctor for Disasters

Physician Executive Journal

Dave Scheiber

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2011 Finalist

It's All About the Outcomes

Hospitals & Health Networks

Lisa Scott

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2011 Finalist

The War on Tuberculosis: Foot soldiers win a battle against resistance

The American Journal of Nursing

Sibyl Shalo

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2011 Finalist

For Good Behavior

Modern Healthcare

Rebecca Vesely

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