Bryant Furlow
An award-winning investigative journalist and medical writer, Bryant's
reporting has appeared in The Lancet Oncology, Radiologic Technol-
ogy, New Scientist, The Guardian, and a dozen other publications
around the world.
Bryant covers New Mexico for the New Mexico Independent, where he
broke a series of exclusive reports on state agencies' disruption of
investigations into alleged cases of elder abuse and Medicaid fraud.
His reporting on military censorship of medical research at Walter Reed
and elsewhere was spotlighted by ProPublica, the National Coalition
Against Censorship and Secrecy News. He also broke the story,
subsequently reported by the New York Times, of the U.S. Veterans
Administration's failure to report more than 100,000 cancer cases to
tumor registries used to track veterans' cancer rates.
Covering Northern New Mexico for the Rio Grande SUN, Bryant reported
on politics, public finances, the impact of hospital budget cuts on rural
ambulance response times and new "harm reduction" strategies against
the region's heroin overdose epidemic. His 2009 investigative series on the
off-label use of psychiatric drugs to sedate jail inmates — a practice that
contributed to overdoses and the emergence of Seroquel as a street drug
— won a first-place New Mexico Press Association / Associated Press
award for investigative reporting.
From 2001 to 2007, Bryant closely followed government and academic
epidemiologists' studies of the Fallon, Nevada childhood leukemia cluster,
the most profound sudden elevation in cancer rates on record. He is now
writing a book about Fallon, based on interviews with families and scientists,
government and military officials, and thousands of pages of government e-
mails, databases and other records.
Bryant graduated with top honors in biology from the University of New
Mexico and studied international relations at California State University,
Sacramento. His scholarly papers have been published in several peer-
reviewed journals, including the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,
and his research has been reviewed in the journal Nature.
Contact Bryant: bryant@epinews.com
reporting has appeared in The Lancet Oncology, Radiologic Technol-
ogy, New Scientist, The Guardian, and a dozen other publications
around the world.
Bryant covers New Mexico for the New Mexico Independent, where he
broke a series of exclusive reports on state agencies' disruption of
investigations into alleged cases of elder abuse and Medicaid fraud.
His reporting on military censorship of medical research at Walter Reed
and elsewhere was spotlighted by ProPublica, the National Coalition
Against Censorship and Secrecy News. He also broke the story,
subsequently reported by the New York Times, of the U.S. Veterans
Administration's failure to report more than 100,000 cancer cases to
tumor registries used to track veterans' cancer rates.
Covering Northern New Mexico for the Rio Grande SUN, Bryant reported
on politics, public finances, the impact of hospital budget cuts on rural
ambulance response times and new "harm reduction" strategies against
the region's heroin overdose epidemic. His 2009 investigative series on the
off-label use of psychiatric drugs to sedate jail inmates — a practice that
contributed to overdoses and the emergence of Seroquel as a street drug
— won a first-place New Mexico Press Association / Associated Press
award for investigative reporting.
From 2001 to 2007, Bryant closely followed government and academic
epidemiologists' studies of the Fallon, Nevada childhood leukemia cluster,
the most profound sudden elevation in cancer rates on record. He is now
writing a book about Fallon, based on interviews with families and scientists,
government and military officials, and thousands of pages of government e-
mails, databases and other records.
Bryant graduated with top honors in biology from the University of New
Mexico and studied international relations at California State University,
Sacramento. His scholarly papers have been published in several peer-
reviewed journals, including the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London,
and his research has been reviewed in the journal Nature.
Contact Bryant: bryant@epinews.com