Reporters Struggle to Cover Comas in Newspaper Articles, Mayo Clinic Study Finds

U.S. Newswire | October 18, 2006 | Copyright

To: National Desk

Contact: John Murphy of the Mayo Clinic, 507-284-5005, 507-284- 2511 (evenings) or newsbureau@mayo.edu

ROCHESTER, Minn., Oct. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Newspaper articles skew coverage of comas by focusing heavily on patients who are more likely to awaken and recover, thus possibly leading the public to believe that coma patients have better odds than they truly do.

These findings of a Mayo Clinic study on how U.S. newspapers cover comas are published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings. This study is the first of its kind and follows a study published earlier this ...

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