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Health & medicine fact checks

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

13,677 published reviews in this topic

YouturnHealth & medicine

உத்தரப் பிரதேசத்தில் ஒரு தாழ்த்தப்பட்ட ஏழை பெண்ணுக்கு அரசு மருத்துவமனையில் சிகிச்சை அளிப்பதற்கு அனுமதி மறுக்கப்பட்டதால் ரோட்டில் பிரசவம் நடந்த அவலங்கள் என்ன ஒரு கொடுமை அநியாயக் காரர்கள் மீது இறைவனுடைய சாபம் உண்டாகும்.

Publisher’s rating: Mix

台灣事實查核中心Health & medicine

網傳「青木瓜茶加椰子水可治痛風」？

Publisher’s rating: 部分錯誤

The report examined a circulating claim that green papaya cooked with tea and mixed with coconut water, drunk daily, could treat or even cure gout. It also checked the accompanying advice that people with gout must avoid a long list of foods. The report consulted named specialists: Huang Guoqin, a physician at China Medical University Hospital, and Hsieh Chang-wei, a professor at National Chung Hsing University. It also cited Taiwan’s 2016 gout and hyperuricemia treatment guideline and research on diet and gout. On the drink, the report found no evidence that green papaya or coconut water has ingredients that treat gout. Hsieh explained that drinking fluids may help uric acid leave the body, but that the amount excreted this way is limited and cannot resolve gout-related joint swelling or deformity. Coconut water may supply electrolytes and have a diuretic effect, the report said, but that does not establish it as a gout treatment. The report described medication, diet control, exercise and avoiding high-purine foods as the fundamental approach to treatment. The report also found the blanket food-avoidance advice misleading. It distinguished foods that should generally be limited, such as organ meats, yeast powder and meat juices, from foods that are not uniformly high in purines or may be eaten in moderation. It noted that tofu and dried beans differ in purine content, and cited the guideline’s statement that vegetables, soybeans, beans and mushrooms do not increase gout risk, while dried shiitake mushrooms and seaweed warrant more restraint. Thus, the report’s conclusion addresses both the unsupported treatment claim and overbroad dietary prohibitions.

NewtralHealth & medicine

Hace seis meses que no viene a una sesión de control

Publisher’s rating: Verdad a medias

The claim concerns Albert Rivera’s criticism of acting prime minister Pedro Sánchez: Rivera said Sánchez had not attended a session of parliamentary control for six months. Newtral compared that period with the dates of the relevant parliamentary session and the dissolution of the Cortes for the April 28 election. It reports that the previous control session took place on February 27, and that the chambers were dissolved from March 5 until they were constituted again on May 21. Thus, although six months had passed since the previous session, three of those months fell during a period when the chambers were dissolved. The review adds an important qualification: the Constitutional Court had ruled a year earlier that Congress could scrutinize a caretaker government, and Newtral says such a government was required to submit to control sessions. But the existence of that obligation does not mean a chamber was available throughout the full six-month period. The article’s distinction is that only the final three months of the period followed the restoration of a chamber capable of holding the sessions. That timeline supports the six-month interval as a literal description, while showing why it needs qualification: half of the interval coincided with the chambers’ dissolution.

FACTLYHealth & medicine

Precautionary health warning by Dr. Anjali Mathur on Appy Fizz, Kurkure, Mentos-Pepsi, etc.

Publisher’s rating: FALSE

The review examines a social-media “high alert” message attributed to Dr. Anjali Mathur, described in the message as chairman and CMO of Indo American Hospital in South Dakota. It addresses both whether the warning was credibly attributed to her and several product claims in it. The review reports that it searched for the named hospital and found no such hospital in South Dakota, concluding that the profile used to authenticate the message was fake. For the product allegations, the review says it found an FSSAI statement calling the rumour that Kurkure contains plastic a hoax. It reports that FSSAI explained that acrylamide can cause the food to burn when lit, rather than indicating that it contains plastic. On Mentos and Pepsi, the review cites a Deccan Chronicle article describing a person consuming Mentos and Diet Coke without ill effect, and explaining that Mentos can trigger rapid foam release from soda; it says cyanide is not formed by combining them. For Appy Fizz, it cites an earlier Hoax or Fact article and says neither its ingredients nor reported findings from FSSAI or research studies established carcinogenic ingredients. These are the review’s stated checks and cited findings, not new tests of the products. Its overall conclusion is that the attributed warning is a hoax and most of its claims are false.

台灣事實查核中心Health & medicine

林靜芸簡介-1949年生於台中，是台灣第一位女性外科醫師...要告訴大家的是夜尿並非膀胱功能失常，而是心臟老化的問題... ？

Publisher’s rating: 錯誤

The claim combines a biography of Lin Jing-yun with advice presented in her voice: that older adults’ nighttime urination is not a bladder problem but a sign of heart aging. The review reports that Lin is a real physician and the head of a joint plastic-surgery clinic, but says she is a plastic surgeon and had not published views connecting nocturia with heart problems. Lin also told the center that the message was not sent by her. The review characterizes the attribution as a fabricated message using a well-known person’s name to make it more credible. (The review describes her specialty as “整型外科醫師”; its text also uses “整形外科醫師.”)