AHCJ Awards

General Interest Magazines above 1 million circ.

First Place: Bad Bargain; Katherine Eban, Self

Second Place: The Deadly Choices at Memorial; Sheri Fink, ProPublica/The New York Times Magazine

Third Place: What's Wrong with Cancer Tests?; Shannon Brownlee, Reader's Digest

Second Place: Useless Medicine; Robert Langreth, Forbes

Third Place: Big Pharma's Crime Spree; David Evans, Bloomberg Markets

First Place: Quality of Death - End of Life Care: Inside Out; Rachel Gotbaum, Anna Bensted and George Hicks, WBUR

Second Place: Twice as Deadly: Chicago’s Race Gap in Breast Cancer Survival - A Special Program; Gabriel Spitzer, Cate Cahan and Natalie Moore, WBEZ-Chicago Public Radio

Third Place: Senior Insecurity; Kelley Weiss, Capital Public Radio

First Place: Marshall Allen's 2009 Body of Work; Marshall Allen, Las Vegas Sun

Second Place: Jim Landers' 2009 Body of Work; Jim Landers, The Dallas Morning News

Third Place: Kelly Weiss' 2009 Body of Work; Kelley Weiss, Capital Public Radio

First Place: Dubious Medicine; Trine Tsouderos and Patricia Callahan, Chicago Tribune

Second Place: Jani's at the Mercy of her Mind; Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times

Second Place: Compromised Care; Chicago Tribune Staff with ProPublica

First Place: Disabled and Denied; Evan George, Los Angeles Daily Journal

Second Place: Painkiller Clinics Use Legal Loopholes; Michael LaForgia, The Palm Beach Post

Third Place: Needless Deaths; Heidi Hall, The Tennessean

First Place: The Alzheimer's Project; Maria Shriver, Sheila Nevins and John Hoffman, Home Box Office

Second Place: America's Forgotten Patients; Josh Rushing, Jeremy Young and Hanaan Sarhan, Al-Jazeera English

Third Place: My Mother's Garden; Cynthia Lester, MSNBC

First Place: Tobacco Underground; International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, Center for Public Integrity

Second Place: Are You Covered?; Peggy Girshman, Joe Neel and Kathleen Masterson, Kaiser Health News/National Public Radio

Third Place: The Color of Health, Part 1: A Growing Solution to the Food Desert Crisis; Bianca Alexander and Michael Alexander, The Soul of Green

First Place: The Cost of Murder; Joe Carlson, Modern Healthcare

Second Place: How Can Small Hospitals Survive?; Jan Greene, Trustee Magazine

Third Place: What Happens to a Donated Tumor?; Stephen Ornes, CR Magazine