Journal Sentinel wins Pulitzer for health care story

The team of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel journalists who chronicled the quest by doctors to save a boy by searching his DNA for clues to a mysterious illness was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting on Monday. Through words, photos, graphics and videos, the team produced "One in a Billion: A boy's life, a medical mystery." The three-part series told the story of 5-year-old Nicholas Volker, who was afflicted by a baffling condition that attacked his gut. After searching textbooks and medical journals for clues, doctors and researchers at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin pushed the frontiers of medicine by sequencing the boy's DNA. (MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL, 4/19)