Bryant Furlow
An award-winning investigative journalist and medical writer, Bryant's
reporting has appeared in The Lancet Oncology, European Journal
of Cancer, Radiologic Technology, 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 stories on the state's disruption of investigations into
Medicaid fraud, and the state Insurance Division's regulation of health
insurance rates, including approvals for Blue Cross NM rate hikes
every year since 2004 — without documetnation proving the insurer's
claimed losses and expenses.
Bryant's 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.
Bryant's 2009 series in the Rio Grande SUN on the off-label use of psychiatric
drugs to sedate jail inmates — and the resulting Seroquel street trade —
won a first-place New Mexico Press Association / Associated Press award
for investigative reporting.
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 favorably reviewed in the journal Nature.
Contact Bryant: bryant@epinews.com
reporting has appeared in The Lancet Oncology, European Journal
of Cancer, Radiologic Technology, 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 stories on the state's disruption of investigations into
Medicaid fraud, and the state Insurance Division's regulation of health
insurance rates, including approvals for Blue Cross NM rate hikes
every year since 2004 — without documetnation proving the insurer's
claimed losses and expenses.
Bryant's 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.
Bryant's 2009 series in the Rio Grande SUN on the off-label use of psychiatric
drugs to sedate jail inmates — and the resulting Seroquel street trade —
won a first-place New Mexico Press Association / Associated Press award
for investigative reporting.
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 favorably reviewed in the journal Nature.
Contact Bryant: bryant@epinews.com