Rick Weiss Wins Prize for Excellence

No reporter has done more to bring academic bioethics into public discourse than Rick Weiss. No one. He doesn't presume to be a bioethicist, unlike some who ply the trade of medical journalism, nor does he play favorites - nobody ever said to me at a meeting, "well Rick Weiss only quotes X, Y, and Z so he doesn't get the real story." He's just, well, Rick. Incisive, careful, innovative, often humble and a good writer. The list of good stories he has produced in health and science is enough to earn him an award, and it did: the 2005 Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting. As Alta Charo put it, "whooo hoooo" for Rick.
[Thanks Alta Charo]