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Health & medicine fact checks

Explore claims publishers have checked about health & medicine. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.

13,666 published reviews in this topic

Logically FactsHealth & medicine

Chemical sunscreens are endocrine disruptors.

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

Related reporting discusses potential endocrine effects from some sunscreen ingredients, not chemical sunscreens as a whole. One article says that certain sunscreen ingredients “may have harmful effects” and “act as endocrine disruptors”; another identifies UV filters such as oxybenzone as ingredients to watch for. This evidence does not show that every chemical sunscreen is an endocrine disruptor.

LupaHealth & medicine

CAFÉ, a nova arma contra o mosquito da dengue. [...] Uma cientista paulista, a bióloga Alessandra Laranja, do Instituto de Biociências da UNESP (campus de São José do Rio Preto), durante a pesquisa da sua dissertação de mestrado, descobriu que a borra de café produz um efeito que bloqueia a postura e o desenvolvimento dos ovos do Aedes aegypti. O processo é extremamente simples: o mosquito pode ser combatido colocando-se borra de café nos pratinhos de coleta de água dos vasos, no prato dos xaxins, dentro das folhas das bromélias, e a borra de café, que é produzida todos os dias em praticamente todas as casas tem custo zero. O único trabalho é o de colocá-la nas plantas, inclusive sendo jogada sobre o solo do jardim e quintal. Os especialistas em saúde pública, entre eles médicos sanitaristas, estão saudando a descoberta de Alessandra. [...]

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Fact Crescendo ThailandHealth & medicine

mRNA vaccines causing white blood clots

Publisher’s rating: False

The review says the reported white clots are explained by natural blood sedimentation after death or clotting processes, not by mRNA vaccination. It also says the video used to support the claim includes footage from a 2019 medical study unrelated to vaccination.

The Healthy Indian ProjectHealth & medicine

Gotu Kola plant can cure depression

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Research from related reporting lists gotu kola among plants said to help rebalance the brain when it shows signs of depression. Another related article says it is believed to relieve anxiety and depression, but also notes that more research is needed to determine its safety and effectiveness; neither excerpt establishes that gotu kola cures depression.