Category: Medicine
Storygram: Amy Maxmen’s “How the Fight Against Ebola Tested a Culture’s Traditions”
Amy Maxmen
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October 3, 2017
PUBLISHED BY: National Geographic ON January 30, 2015
NASW Science in Society Award
A great quarrel followed the death of a pregnant Guinean woman in June …
Storygram: Charles Piller’s “Failure to Report”
Charles Piller
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March 21, 2017
PUBLISHED BY: STAT ON December 13, 2015
AAAS Kavli Award
Stanford University, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and other prestigious medical research institutions have flagrantly violated a federal law requiring public reporting of study results, depriving patients and doctors of complete data to gauge the safety and benefits of treatments, a STAT investigation has found. …
The Real Scandal: Science Denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
Christie Aschwanden
PUBLISHED BY: The Last Word On Nothing ON February 8, 2012
NASW Science in Society Award
Is breast cancer threatening your life? This Susan G. Komen for the Cure® ad leaves no doubt about who’s to blame —you are. …
Storygram: George Johnson’s “Why Everyone Seems to Have Cancer”
George Johnson
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October 25, 2016
PUBLISHED BY: The New York Times ON January 4, 2014
AAAS Kavli Award
EVERY New Year when the government publishes its Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, it is followed by a familiar lament. We are losing the war against cancer. …
Why Nothing Works
Erik Vance
PUBLISHED BY: Discover Magazine ON July 7, 2014
NASW Science in Society Award
Once dismissed as a curiosity, the placebo effect is now recognized as the key to the brain’s “inner pharmacy.” If only doctors knew how to open the medicine cabinet. …
The Course of Their Lives
Mark Johnson
PUBLISHED BY: Journal Sentinel ON October 12, 2013
CASW Cohn Prize
The noisy, first-day-of-school chatter subsides. A hush falls over 200 students in a lecture hall at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Already, their thoughts are drifting up a flight of stairs to the sprawling dissection lab, where in two days they will meet and become intimate with something many have scarcely encountered: Death. …
