Pfizer Prize for Beauty via Medicine announced 

The Pfizer Journalist Award 2007 is looking for journalistic contributions that deal with the topic of "Beauty through medicine". According to the call for entries, more and more people are dissatisfied with their appearance and are helping nature along with the help of medicine. Diets, facelifts, hair transplants, breast augmentation and liposuction are also attracting media attention. Entries for the Pfizer Prize on these topics must be scientifically sound, but written in language that is also understandable for laypeople. Individual articles, series or sequences of articles as well as radio and television reports published for the first time between April 1, 2006 and March 31, 2007 are eligible. The closing date for entries is April 15, 2007, and the prize money for the first prize-winning articles is in the region of "several thousand Swiss francs", according to a Pfizer communiqué. This year's prize from the pharmaceutical company went to Anne Kauffmann, editor at the French-speaking Swiss daily newspaper 24 Heures, for a series of articles on the subject of "bird flu".