The independent Embrace Award judging panel consisting of leading health journalists and incontinence specialists selected the journalists Mandy Collins (True Love magazine, South Africa), Pawel Walewski (Polityka, Poland) and Professor Barry Weiss (American Family Physician, USA) to receive this award.
These journalists have won trips to the homelands of some of the world's most renowned authors, including Russia (Leo Tolstoy), the USA (Ernest Hemingway) and Ireland (James Joyce).
To view the winners' articles, visit the Embrace Award website at www.embrace-award.org.
The second Embrace Award is now open for entries until June 2006. Journalists from print, online and broadcast media are welcome to submit an entry to the award on all topics relating to the cause, prevalence, management and impact of urinary incontinence.
The Embrace Award is jointly sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim.
For further information about the Embrace Award and to obtain an application form beginning 1 September, please visit www.embrace-award.org
