Health & medicine fact checks

fluoride is harmful to our bodies

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Apeel bevat palladium, lood en arsenicum en zit op groente en fruit.

Publisher’s rating: Nee. De coating op groenten en fruit die het bedrijf Apeel ontwikkelde, wordt gewonnen uit fruitpulp, schillen en zaden. Gevaarlijke metalen behoren niet tot de ingrediëntenlijst. In de EU is de coating alleen nog toegestaan op producten waarvan de schil niet gegeten wordt. In andere delen van de wereld is de techniek al op alle groente en fruit toegestaan.

با اقدام سازنده رئیسی در عرض دو سه ماه کرونا در کشور جمع شد.

Publisher’s rating: گمراه‌کننده

Sonnenlicht löst keinen Hautkrebs aus, ganz im Gegenteil, Sonnenlicht heilt.

Publisher’s rating: Nein. Die aktuelle Studienlage schreibt Sonnenlicht keine heilende Wirkung zu. Im Gegenteil begünstigt zu lang andauernde UV-Strahlung die Entwicklung von Hautkrebs. Sonnencreme kann bedingt schützen.

Una revisión concluye que el 73.9% de las muertes analizadas fueron causadas por las vacunas COVID-19.

Publisher’s rating: Sin evidencia. La revisión, que parte de un artículo de preimpresión retirado, contiene múltiples problemas y ha sido elaborado por autores con conflictos de interés relacionados. La evidencia actual muestra que las vacunas COVID-19 no aumentan el riesgo de mortalidad en personas vacunadas.

நான் சொன்ன விஷமுறிவு மருந்தின் பெயர் FOMEPIZOLE Injection. விடியா திமுக அமைச்சர் மா. சுப்ரமணியன் சொல்வது OMEPRAZOLE Capsule. அது அல்சர் மாத்திரை. பெயரை மாற்றிச் சொல்கிறார். FOMEPIZOLE எங்கும் கிடைக்கவில்லை – அதிமுக பொதுச்செயலாளர் எடப்பாடி பழனிச்சாமி.

Publisher’s rating: misleading

Fact check: What is NHS policy on trans patients in single-sex wards?

Publisher’s rating: Under current NHS guidance, transgender patients are entitled to be accommodated in single-sex wards that match how they identify. A GRC is not required for the individual decision-making process by healthcare professionals. However, a review of the NHS constitution is under way and includes a revision of policy for transgender patients.

“A Índia pediu pena de morte para cientistas da OMS que bloquearam o acesso à ivermectina [no tratamento de Covid-19]”

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Can bananas cure ulcers?

Publisher’s rating: This claim is False.

Dr Devi Shetty is promoting a hypertension treatment

Publisher’s rating: False

"voor ongeboren kinderen kan de infectie [parvovirus] levensgevaarlijk zijn"

Publisher’s rating: Waar

The review says parvovirus B19 can rarely cause severe harm to a fetus, including miscarriage, but emphasizes that the risk is very small. Most pregnant women have antibodies, and most infections that reach the fetus have no consequences.

Atualização da OMS acaba admitindo a ineficácia das máscaras durante a pandemia

Publisher’s rating: Falso

L'Australie impose des « rations alimentaires » pour se préparer à la pandémie de grippe aviaire.

Publisher’s rating: Non, l'Australie n'a décrété aucun rationnement alimentaire. Aux prises avec une épidémie de grippe aviaire, le pays fait face à une légère perturbation de l'approvisionnement en oeufs, mais pas à une pénurie.

Bird's eye chili is proven to be very effective against dengue.

Publisher’s rating: False

drinking water help cure cramps

Publisher’s rating: Replenishing electrolytes like potassium and sodium, or stretching and massaging the affected muscle may help alleviate the pain.

از موفقیت‌های جمهوری اسلامی یکی این است که در این ۴۵ سال میانگین طول عمر که ۵۵ سال بود امروز به ۷۷ سال رسیده.

Publisher’s rating: نیمه‌درست

Fact check: Excess deaths are far below pandemic levels

Publisher’s rating: Excess deaths are far lower than during the Covid-19 pandemic: from an average of more than 2,000 excess deaths per week during the first 52 weeks of the pandemic, they have fallen to around a quarter of that in 2023 (the most recent comparable period). More young people aged 0-24 have died than expected in the first four months of 2024, the only age group for which this is the case. However, across 2023, excess deaths were much more likely among older people.

۴۵ درصد پزشکان در تهران هستند.

Publisher’s rating: نادرست

La cour d'appel des Etats-Unis pour le 9ème circuit a statué que les vaccins anti-Covid (ARNm) ne sont pas des vaccins.

Publisher’s rating: Non, la cour d'appel concernée n'a pas rendu de décision de la sorte. Elle a jugé valide une plainte sur la vaccination, un temps obligatoire pour le personnel d'une école de Californie, sans se prononcer sur la qualité des vaccins contre le Covid-19.

The Ninth Circuit’s June 7, 2024 decision concerned whether former school employees could pursue a challenge to a past COVID-19 vaccination requirement. It did not decide whether COVID-19 vaccines qualify as vaccines; the court said it was not deciding whether the plaintiffs’ allegations were true.

soaking nuts improves gastrointestinal tolerance and has a positive effect on phytate levels.

Publisher’s rating: Studies find that soaking nuts does not improve gastrointestinal tolerance or have any effect on phytate levels.