Health & medicine fact checks

“Só uma única prefeitura [Paraná] comprou a vacina [Dengvaxia]”

Publisher’s rating: Rating unavailable

กินเมล็ดมะละกอสุกวันละ 3 เมล็ดสามารถรักษาโรคมะเร็งได้

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says there is no confirmed clinical research showing that eating ripe papaya seeds treats cancer. Although compounds in the seeds have shown cancer-cell-inhibiting effects in laboratory studies, the review says there have been no animal or human studies to establish that the seeds treat cancer. [S1]

“Já existe a vacina da dengue (...). Essa vacina existe há anos”

Publisher’s rating: Rating unavailable

การสระผมก่อนอาบน้ำอาจทำให้เสี่ยงหลอดเลือดในสมองแตก

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says the claim is false: experts cited in the article explain that briefly washing hair or showering does not cause a rapid change in body temperature that would lead to blood vessel abnormalities. It identifies high blood pressure, diabetes, older age, smoking, and alcohol use as key risk factors for a brain hemorrhage.

Can massaging with olive oil make breast firmer, toned and bigger ?

Publisher’s rating: This is False.

Washing your hair before showering could potentially rupture brain blood vessels

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says experts rejected the claim, explaining that washing hair does not directly affect blood vessels and cannot cause temperature changes severe enough to produce vascular abnormalities. It identifies other stroke risk factors, including high blood pressure, diabetes, aging, smoking, and alcohol consumption.

日本教授福島雅典調查揭新冠疫苗副作用達201種

Publisher’s rating: 誤導內容

The review traces the claim of 201 vaccine side effects or sequelae to Fukushima’s compilation of reports presented at Japanese medical conferences. It says the source spreadsheet cautions that reports of conditions observed after vaccination do not establish causation, and that the two social-media pages omitted the method and limitations when presenting the 201 conditions as side effects or sequelae.

Rei Roberto Carlos revela como tratamento inovador curou sua visão embaçada

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Washing Hair Before Showering Can Cause A Stroke !!

Publisher’s rating: Misleading

The review says washing hair before showering does not directly affect blood vessels or cause abnormalities that lead to a stroke. It identifies established stroke risk factors including high blood pressure, diabetes, aging, smoking, and alcohol consumption.

Existe una alerta mundial para los vacunados contra el covid-19.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

A menina que apareceu vomitando em um balde após receber a vax, veio a óbito! [...]

Publisher’s rating: Falso

Bereits im Dezember 2020 war bekannt, dass Lockdowns schädlicher seien als Covid-19. Dennoch beschloss die deutsche Bundesregierung den Lockdown.

Publisher’s rating: Die Aussage in den RKI-Dokumenten bezieht sich auf den Verlauf der Pandemie in Afrika. Dort würden sich Ausgangssperren negativ auf Behandlungen von Tuberkulose und Impfungen auswirken.

The quoted RKI statement about lockdown consequences concerned the pandemic in Africa, where restrictions were expected to disrupt tuberculosis treatment and routine vaccinations—not Germany. The German lockdown had already been decided three days before the RKI meeting, and was in effect on the meeting day.

Laut ORF-Artikel wurde Siegfried Meryn in einer ORF-Sendung von Gesundheitsminister Johannes Rauch zusammengeschlagen, weil er die Absprachen zwischen Pharmaunternehmen und deren absichtliches Unterschlagen wirksamer Medikamente gegen Herz-Kreislauf-Erkrankungen aufgedeckt hat.

Publisher’s rating: Die angebliche ORF-Webseite wurde gefälscht, der Beitrag erfunden. Bei dem angepriesenen Medikament handelt es sich um ein Nahrungsergänzungsmittel.

The review says the purported ORF page was fabricated and the reported assault story invented. It also says the promoted product was a dietary supplement, not a medicine.

A maçã (...) contém fibras que colaboram para a absorção de gorduras, essa ação é feita especialmente pela pectina, uma substância que contém na maçã e auxilia no combate ao colesterol ruim

Publisher’s rating: Verdadeiro

O inhame é fonte de vitamina C, A e diversas vitaminas do complexo B contribuindo assim para a manutenção das funções biológicas e hepáticas do corpo além de estimular a produção de células de defesa e ajudar na eliminação de toxinas do organismo

Publisher’s rating: Verdadeiro

Se você está com dengue ou conhece alguém que esteja beba esse suco [de inhame, maçã, limão e laranja], ele aumenta as plaquetas no sangue e vai reativar o seu bem-estar

Publisher’s rating: Falso

“Le diste [Sheinbaum] un medicamento para piojos [ivermectina] a los pacientes de covid”.

Publisher’s rating: Verdad

“En la Ciudad de México las personas [...] sin acceso a los servicios de salud pasaron de ser 1.8 millones a 2.6 millones. Cuando inició el gobierno de la doctora Sheinbaum, dos de cada 10 capitalinos no tenían acceso [...]; cuando lo terminó, tres de cada 10”.

Publisher’s rating: Verdad

Can Colgate toothpaste remove body hair permanently in 5 minutes?

Publisher’s rating: False.

The review says there is no scientific evidence that toothpaste permanently removes unwanted hair in five minutes. It reports that toothpaste may make hair brittle and cause it to break, while prolonged skin contact can cause irritation or burning.

Lockdown é prejudicial à saúde e taxa da covid é igual ao da gripe

Publisher’s rating: ENGANOSO

The review says the RKI documents contained individual comments from crisis-team discussions, not the institute’s official position: “As declarações individuais feitas no contexto de tais discussões não refletem necessariamente a posição acordada do RKI”, informou o instituto. It reports that the RKI continued to defend lockdowns and that COVID-19 mortality was not similar to flu mortality; in Germany, 65,000 people died of COVID-19 in the winter of 2020/2021, compared with about 25,000 flu deaths in the 2017/2018 winter.