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Health & medicine fact checks

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

13,672 published reviews in this topic

dpaHealth & medicine

Zweden stopt met het toedienen van Moderna COVID-19-vaccin vanwege risico op hartontsteking.

Publisher’s rating: Het bericht mist essentiële context. Dit is namelijk geen nieuwe ontwikkeling. Het gedeelde fragment komt uit oktober 2021, toen Zweden deze beslissing inderdaad maakte. Nog altijd wordt het Modernavaccin niet toegediend bij mensen onder de dertig. Bij mensen van boven de 30 jaar wordt het vaccin wel nog gebruikt, ook weer in de nieuwe vaccinatieronde.

dpaHealth & medicine

De Coronavaccins werden niet getest alvorens te worden losgelaten op het brede publiek.

Publisher’s rating: De opmerkingen van senator Hall zijn onwaar. De goedgekeurde vaccins tegen het coronavirus hebben allen succesvol proeven op zowel dieren als mensen doorstaan alvorens op de markt te komen.

The claim examined was made by Texas Senator Bob Hall in a video of a Texas Senate committee hearing. Hall said that animal testing of coronavirus vaccines had been stopped because too many animals died, and that testing on human participants was then skipped before the vaccines were released. The review notes that Hall did not identify a particular vaccine, and that the video showed a hearing held on May 6, 2021.

FACTLYHealth & medicine

Photo of a woman with a huge belly who gave birth to nine babies at a time

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The claim concerns a viral video of a woman with a greatly enlarged abdomen, said to have given birth to nine babies. FACTLY identifies the woman in the video as Huang Guoxian and says the post falsely presents her abdominal enlargement as pregnancy and childbirth. The review describes the circulated material as a video, although the claim is phrased as a photo. FACTLY reports that Guoxian’s abdomen enlarged because of ovarian cancer, not because she was carrying nine babies. According to the review, she underwent surgery to remove the tumour and fluid that had accumulated in her abdomen. It also says her abdomen had grown abnormally for two years before the cancer was diagnosed. To investigate, FACTLY says it searched online using relevant keywords and found reporting about the woman in the viral video. It specifically cites a Daily Mail report from October 2020 as identifying Guoxian and describing the abdominal growth and surgery. The review’s conclusion is that her images were reused with a false explanation: the visible enlargement was linked to cancer, not a birth of nine babies.