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3971 | Minnesota farm shutters under deal to contain deer disease. | A central Minnesota farm where deer were found infected with a fatal brain disease has closed and the U.S. Department of Agriculture compensated the owner for euthanizing his entire herd. | true | Animals, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Health, Deer, Minnesota, Animal health | The Minnesota Board of Animal Health announced Wednesday that captive deer were killed on a Crow Wing County farm to try to prevent chronic wasting disease from spreading to wild deer in the region, the Star Tribune reported. The board didn’t disclose how much Trophy Woods Ranch in Merrifield was paid or how many deer ... |
11413 | Breast MRI after mammography may identify additional aggressive cancers | Mammography (left) and MR imaging (right). Credit: RSNAThis cautiously worded release suggests that preoperative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of breast cancer patients may reveal additional cancers, while noting that it is not known whether additional treatment aimed at these newly discovered cancers helps or... | mixture | Association/Society news release,Breast cancer,Diagnostic tests | The release does not discuss the cost of breast MRI or the cost of altering treatment based on the results of the imaging. In addition, we’d note that MRI may not be covered depending on insurance, and given the way some of the plans are currently structured, the cost may be prohibitive. The release notes that potentia... |
2900 | Aegerion gets DOJ subpeona over marketing of cholesterol drug. | Aegerion Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Thursday that it received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice, requesting documents related to the marketing and sale of its cholesterol drug Juxtapid in the United States. | true | Health News | Aegerion shares fell more than 12 percent in extended trading. Juxtapid was approved by U.S. health regulators in December 2012 to treat patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HoFH), a rare genetic disease that impairs the function of the receptor responsible for removing LDL-C or “bad” cholesterol fro... |
8638 | Indonesia coronavirus cases top 2,000 amid concerns over data. | Indonesia said on Saturday that coronavirus cases had topped 2,000 and deaths risen to 191, but doubts have been raised over official figures by data showing a big jump in funerals last month in the capital Jakarta. | true | Health News | Health Ministry official Achmad Yurianto said there had been 106 new confirmed infections, taking the total number of cases in the Southeast Asian country to 2,092, with 10 new deaths. “We are still on high alert over infections that are taking place in the community that are caused by positive cases among people who a... |
10344 | Alzheimer’s drugs double death risk in elderly | This news report does a solid job of describing study findings that show Alzheimer’s patients taking anti-psychotic drugs face an increased risk of death. It does several things particularly well: It describes the study methods and results in clear detail It provides comments from two independent experts It puts the... | true | "The story fails to mention the price of the anti-psychotic medications. While this information is not crucial here, as a matter of course the cost of drug regimens under study should be mentioned. In this case, some of the anti-psychotic medications are expensive when taken long-term. The story made a modest attempt t... | |
35590 | A 2007 study showed burning sage kills 94% of bacteria. | Evidence also suggests that the virus spreads when an individual touches a contaminated surface and then touches their mouth, eyes, or nose, though recently published guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) caution that “this is not thought to be the main way the virus spreads.” It is not k... | false | Science, COVID-19 | Since as early as October 2019, Snopes readers have inquired about headlines and social media posts that claim burning sage “kills 94% of bacteria.” In 2020, the question took on new significance for some readers as the United States grappled with a surge of reported cases of the COVID-19 coronavirus disease. Though bu... |
9839 | Prozac May Reduce Symptoms of Autism in Adults | This story covers a study that adds to prior research. A quick PubMed search finds an astonishing lack of randomized clinical trials evaluating antidepressants for autism. Although the study is small, it is a randomized clinical trial and addresses a gap in the evidence. We would have like to have seen: Overall, though... | true | antidepressants,Prozac | It’s not that costs are high, it’s just that they weren’t discussed. The costs of Prozac are well known and could have been included in this story. Taking just one pill a day for 30 days would cost $214 through Drugstore.com.Prozac is generic at $10 for 3 months at one big box chain. There are also medical followup co... |
10932 | More not always better with in vitro fertilization | Although the story did not hit all our marks, it did provide some important context for readers, especially patients who are considering fertility options. We wish most of all that it had spent more time with a few independent experts to provide some stronger analysis of the study and to help readers understand the pot... | true | Associated Press | Important information about costs is provided here. The story quantifies the benefits of multiple IVF treatments (and the diminishing returns) in two different ways. Here’s the best summation: “Over the five-year period, some 300,000 women had more than half a million IVF cycles that resulted in 171,327 first-time deli... |
27879 | A list collects statements about rape made by Republican politicians. | “I have always been passionate about my beliefs, and years ago I said things that I regret. I hold no animosity toward anyone by virtue of their gender or sexual orientation, and today I am focused on ensuring freedom and economic prosperity for all Mainers,” he said. | true | Politics Quotes | A “Republicans on Rape” graphic widely circulated online since 2014 collects various comments about that crime supposedly made by GOP politicians in recent years: The remarks collected in that graphic were indeed all uttered by the persons to whom they have been attributed; below we offer four of the statements on vid... |
29054 | Reusing, freezing, or heating plastic water bottles will cause them to break down into carcinogenic compounds or release dioxins. | What's false: Reusing single-use PET bottles doesn't cause them to release carcinogenic DEHA into the fluids they contain; freezing plastic water bottles doesn't cause them to release carcinogenic dioxins into the fluids they contain. What's undetermined: Whether heating some types of plastic bottles could increase the... | mixture | Medical, bisphenol a, bpa, plastic bottles | Examples: [Collected via e-mail, 2007] No water bottles in freezer. A dioxin chemical causes cancer, especially breast cancer. Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of our bodies. Don’t freeze your plastic bottles with water in them as this releases dioxins from the plastic. [Collected via e-mail, 2004] Many are un... |
11252 | To Prevent Infection After C-Section, Chlorhexidine Better Than Iodine | Women who deliver babies via cesarean section (C-section) surgery may develop infections of the incision, and this news release describes research that shows an alternative combination of skin-cleaning agents prior to surgery may prevent those infections more effectively. The randomized study, which took place at a sin... | true | Academic medical center news release,pregnancy,Women's health | We gave the release a passing grade on cost for including context on the cost of an infection. “An estimated 1.3 million women in the U.S. delivered their babies by C-section in 2013, with surgical-site infections complicating 5 to 12 percent of those deliveries. The average cost of treating those cesarean-related infe... |
2653 | French implant boss released, faces bodily harm charge. | Jean-Claude Mas, the Frenchman who sparked a global health scare by selling substandard breast implants, was released from police custody on Friday and faces a charge of causing bodily harm, his lawyer said. | true | Health News | Mas will not be investigated for the graver charge of manslaughter, as was expected, but does now face criminal charges which carry longer sentences than those he faces in a fraud case expected to go to trial around October. He was released on bail of 100,000 euros ($131,600), banned from leaving the country and from m... |
28888 | You can tell the size of a man's penis by looking at his hands. | What's true: Studies indicate that finger length ratios (but not the size of the fingers themselves) can provide some clue about member length. What's false: Hand (or foot) size is a definitive indication of the size of a man's penis. | mixture | Politics, donald trump | The Republican debate on 3 March 2016 took a turn for the raucous early in the evening, when Donald Trump responded to a jab Marco Rubio had made a few days earlier about the size of his hands: “I have to say this,” said Trump during the debate. “He hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands.” Trump went on: I have ne... |
10424 | Early C-Section Carries Risks, Study Finds | This report about the risks of an elective c-section before 39 weeks of gestation does a credible job presenting the findings of a significant study. It describes the results accurately and with sufficient details. Two shortcomings: * The story fails to include information about the cost of the surgery * The re... | true | No data comparing costs of c-section vs. vaginal birth is provided. This is surprising, given the fact that one reason experts discourage elective c-sections is high cost. The reporter does a diligent job of quantifying the results, using both relative risks and percentage of bad outcomes in the studied population. The... | |
32950 | Marco Rubio described Zika-linked birth defects as God's punishment of a mother, and abortion as an unacceptable evasion of that judgment. | Previous Newslo, Religionlo, and Politicalo articles that confused social media users included items claiming that Marco Rubio said women should be placed in custody if it was suspected they were considering an abortion, that Pat Robertson said gay people should wear specific colors by which heterosexual people could e... | false | Junk News, abortion, marco rubio, newslo | On 21 February 2016, Newslo published an article reporting that Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said he is against abortion even if “God were to intentionally infect a baby in the womb with the Zika virus”: During a weekend interview, CNN challenged pro-life Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio ... |
10636 | The Latest Advance Against Acne | "This article descibes a treatment for persistent acne called Isolaz. By combining suction with a laser, it offers an approach different from the usual drug, topical or laser-based treatments. The article falls short of key health journalism best practices: It focuses on two anecdotes from patients satisfied with thei... | mixture | "The story reports the price as between $150 and $500 per session, and reports that insurance generally won’t cover it. The story elsewhere says that five sessions are considered a mimimum, and regular follow-ups may be required. It would have been useful to do the math for the reader–between $750 and $2,500 for the mi... | |
8218 | Taiwan reports six new coronavirus cases in largest single-day rise, all imported. | Taiwan reported six new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, all imported and marking the biggest daily rise in infections, in people who had returned to the island from countries including Spain and Japan, bringing its total tally to 59. | true | Health News | The government is working on tracking down all the people who had contact with the new cases, it said in a statement. The other countries those infected had traveled to were Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Thailand, while two of the patients had transited in Dubai, the government added. While Taiwan has won plaudits from int... |
23187 | "Rebecca Kleefisch Says ""Tom Barrett supports a government takeover of our health care" | Republican Rebecca Kleefisch says Democrat Tom Barrett supports government takeover of health care | false | Health Care, Message Machine 2010, Wisconsin, Rebecca Kleefisch, | "Even in the run-up to the Sept. 14, 2010 primary, most voters probably paid little attention to Republican Rebecca Kleefisch or any of the candidates for the get-no-respect position of Wisconsin lieutenant governor. Since her victory, Kleefisch has proven hard to ignore. First, Kleefisch garnered headlines when she re... |
9918 | Drugmakers develop pill to boost female sexual desire | "This story reports on a new drug, flibanserin, that is being touted by some as ""Female Viagra."" Preliminary study results were reported at the 12th Congress of the European Society in Sexual Medicine in Lyon, France. The studies were sponsored by the drug’s manufacturer and have not been published in peer reviewed s... | false | "No cost data was provided for flibanserin. But an estimate of the potential U.S. market, up to $100 million in sales, was given. Those sales estimates had to be based on some price assumptions. What where they? It doesn’t seem that you should provide the one number without providing the other. How might the cost of fl... | |
33720 | A cactus can explode and spew baby tarantulas everywhere. | Did a cactus explode and spew baby tarantulas everywhere? | false | Horrors, ASP Article, cactus, desert | Variations: Legends about spiders nesting in cactuses or yuccas imported from Central America surfaced in Scandinavia and Great Britain in the early 1970s. In 1985, an outbreak of “Spider in the Yucca” lore featured a plant supposedly bought from Marks & Spencer, a leading British department store. Though at times this... |
5842 | Newborn syphilis cases in US reach highest level in 20 years. | The number of U.S. babies born infected with syphilis has reached the highest level in 20 years. | true | Health, Sexually transmitted diseases, Syphilis | It is still rare for babies to get syphilis from their infected mothers, but figures released Tuesday show more than 900 cases were reported last year. That’s more than double the number in 2013. Most cases were in the Southeast and Southwest. The last time the number was that high or higher was in the 1990s. In adults... |
3507 | Governors interested in regional approach for vaping rules. | The governors of Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut said Thursday that they’re interested in taking a regional approach to regulating vaping in the future. | true | Rhode Island, Ned Lamont, Charlie Baker, Health, Gina Raimondo, Providence, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vaping, General News | They met privately Thursday to discuss issues of regional importance. Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, a Democrat, hosted Republican Gov. Charlie Baker of Massachusetts and Democratic Gov. Ned Lamont of Connecticut for lunch at Rhode Island College in Providence. They said after the meeting that they agreed a consisten... |
39733 | Senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett is a Muslim and previously said she wanted to help America become more like Islamic countries. | Valerie Jarrett is a Muslim and Controls the White House – Fiction! | false | 9/11 Attack on America | Valerie Jarrett has never identified herself as a Muslim, and there’s no record of her saying that she wanted to help make America “more like Islamic countries.” Valerie Jarrett supposedly she wanted to make America more like Islamic countries while she was study at Stanford University in 1977. The quote circulated on ... |
5865 | Jets’ Claiborne a happy father after newborn’s health scare. | Morris Claiborne was in the middle of a walkthrough practice last summer when he got the call — finally — that he was eagerly anticipating. | true | NFL football, Health, Morris Claiborne, North America, New York Jets, Football | It was time for his twin daughters to enter the world. A New York Jets trainer had the cornerback’s cellphone and was tasked with letting him know if and when Claiborne’s now-wife Jennifer was heading to the hospital. “I remember I saw the trainer walking on the field and he gave me, like, a look,” Claiborne recalled i... |
8657 | Russian regions join coronavirus lockdown as toll rises. | More than a dozen Russian regions including the city of St Petersburg introduced a partial lockdown on Monday after Russia recorded its biggest one-day rise in coronavirus cases for the sixth day in a row. | true | Health News | Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin had told Russia’s more than 80 regions to consider ordering people to stay at home after the official tally of coronavirus cases rose by 302 to 1,836. Nine people have died, authorities say. Moscow’s authorities have already ordered residents to stay at home, and Mishustin said he thoug... |
17116 | Pregnant women who stand for five to six hours at a time increase their risk of pre-term pregnancy by 80 percent. | "Providence City Council President Michael Solomon said, ""Pregnant women who stand for five or six hours at a time increase their risk of pre-term pregnancy by 80 percent,"" attributing the statistic to the Women's Fund of Rhode Island. That's a very specific claim. But the evidence is based on a few studies, cherry-p... | false | Rhode Island, Families, Health Care, Government Regulation, Public Health, Science, Women, Workers, Michael Solomon, | "On April 3, 2014, legislation intended to protect pregnant women from workplace discrimination and safeguard the health of both the mother and child was introduced before the Providence City Council. It called for accommodations such as extra break times and the right to transfer to lighter duty. Arguing in support of... |
29214 | A video shows President Obama agreeing with President Trump on immigration policy. | However, Obama repeatedly said in this speech — as well as in the “Immigration Accountability Executive Action” plan — that he was opposed to family separation. | false | Politics, family separation, immigration, obama administration | In June 2018, the Trump administration received heavy criticized for enacting a short-lived policy to separate children from their families at the border of the United States and Mexico, sending them to detention centers across the country as an apparent attempt to deter asylum-seekers. As outrage over the issue contin... |
384 | Court ruling could help J&J defeat St. Louis talc lawsuits. | A Missouri Supreme Court ruling on talc lawsuits could reduce the liability and number of large trials Johnson & Johnson faces over allegations its talc products, including baby powder, cause cancer. | true | Health News | The ruling will likely offer some respite to the healthcare conglomerate as it deals with growing pressure over the safety of its talc products, some defense lawyers said. The company revealed in its annual report on Wednesday that it had received subpoenas from the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchan... |
1011 | North Korea steps up measures to prevent spread of African swine fever. | North Korea has stepped up measures to prevent the spread of the highly contagious and deadly African swine fever, its main state newspaper said on Wednesday, breaking its silence on the outbreak which was first reported in late May. | true | Health News | In late May, North Korea reported an outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), South Korea’s agriculture ministry said but the North has not made any official comment on its outbreak. North Korea’s Rodong Sinmun newspaper said on Wednesday nationwide preventive measures ar... |
9746 | Acupuncture Best for Hot Flashes in Breast Cancer Survivors: Study | This story is about a small but intriguing study that tests four different methods to manage the kind of hot flashes experienced by women who have been treated for breast cancer. Testing acupuncture, “sham” acupuncture, the drug gabapentin and a placebo pill, it found that real acupuncture was better than the other thr... | mixture | acupuncture,breast cancer,hot flashes,menopause | There is no discussion of costs of any of the treatments studied. The benefits of the treatments were measured at 8, 12 and 24 weeks after receiving the treatment yet the magnitude of those effects are not quantified nor explained in any detail. Measurements looked at frequency and severity of hot flashes but we don’t ... |
31557 | Hiding finely-ground glass in food is an effective method for killing a person. | Sightings: In the first season of the HBO television prison drama Oz, two inmates kill another prisoner by secretly mixing crushed glass into his food until he begins to bleed from his ears and nose. | false | Medical, Poisonings | The use of finely-ground glass secreted in food is often mooted in murder mysteries and idle gossip as an effective technique for poisoning the unwary. Simply crush some glass into a fine powder, surreptitiously add the pulverized fragments to something your putative victim is about to ingest, then sit back and wait. I... |
5416 | Nebraska environmental group dedicates June to ‘plogging’. | A Nebraska environmental advocacy nonprofit is dedicating the month of June to “plogging,” a Swedish fitness trend that’s gaining popularity in the U.S. | true | Fremont, Environment, Jogging, Nebraska, Exercise | Plogging mixes fitness with environmentalism, as joggers pick up stray trash and litter during their exercise. The name combines the Swedish word for pick up, “plocka upp,” with jogging. Keep Nebraska Beautiful plans to host activities through June to introduce residents to the sport with its affiliate groups, the Frem... |
26481 | ”If you line up all the countries that have done (Covid-19) testing on a per-capita basis, we’re at the bottom of the list.” | "Scott said on April 2, ""If you line up all the countries that have done (Covid-19) testing on a per capita basis, we’re at the bottom of the list."" His statement was based on an early-March estimate by Vox that was outdated when Scott spoke. U.S. testing had expanded 130-fold by April 2, and has doubled again in the... | false | Coronavirus, Bobby Scott, | "U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., recently criticized President Donald Trump for not taking the Covid-19 pandemic ""seriously."" As proof, Scott cited the critical lack of test kits in the United States despite almost two months of warnings early this year before the disease hit American shores. ""If you line up all the c... |
36108 | "Infants look away from people after they smile because they are ""overwhelmed with joy"" and ""have to regulate"" by looking somewhere else." | Do Smiling Babies Have to Look Away from People Because They’re ‘Overwhelmed with Joy’? | unproven | Fact Checks, Viral Content | An October 10 2019 post to Reddit’s r/wholesomememes featured an uplifting claim by way of screenshot, claiming that when babies first start “emoting,” they have to look away after a few seconds of smiling:Overwhelming joy! from wholesomememesA tweet screenshot bore no date, but the username was visible and attached to... |
27820 | Deputy Scott Wood was shot by black convenience store robbers, and the incident was not widely reported in the national media. | Deputy Scott Wood was shot when three black men attempted to rob a convenience store in March 2015. | true | Crime | Scott Wood, white Kansas City Deputy, shot 7x by 3 black men & no mention made of race. Had roles been reversed? PLEASE SHARE! This is deputy Scott Wood of the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office (Kansas City, Kansas). Deputy Wood had finished his shift and stopped at a 7-Eleven before going home. While at the counter, D... |
8793 | Drug restores speech in Alzheimer's; experts worry. | Alzheimer’s patients given a popular rheumatoid arthritis drug showed seemingly dramatic improvements in a small study, but some doctors worried that the early findings will raise premature hopes in patients and their families. | true | Science News | File photo shows a young carer holding the hands of an elderly woman in a residential home for the elderly in Planegg near Munich June 19, 2007. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle The study, reported on Sunday in the journal BioMed Central BMC Neurology, involved 12 patients who had greatly improved language recall shortly after t... |
9524 | Never Too Old to Be an Organ Donor | This Well blog post is about a study that looked at the medical records from 647 kidney transplants, analyzed by the age of donors to try to determine if age made the transplants less successful. Results showed that the five-year survival rate for recipients was not changed much by the age of the donor, however, donors... | false | kidney donation | The story doesn’t discuss costs. Couldn’t the transplant surgery be more expensive for older donors due to increased rate of complications? And just in general, cost is almost always an issue with surgery, and this needed at least a brief mention. The story quantifies benefits here: In an average follow-up of five year... |
3977 | Federal shutdown affected probe into unique bovine TB case. | The longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history affected an investigation into a strain of bovine tuberculosis in a North Dakota beef cattle herd, say state officials who have so far have shouldered most of the probe into the strain similar to cases in Mexican cattle and not previously seen in the U.S. | true | Health, Animal health, North Dakota | Chances are low the situation will imperil other cattle herds or people, particularly since the herd in southeastern North Dakota’s Sargent County has been quarantined. But it could delay solving the mystery of how a strain of bovine TB similar to cases associated with cattle south of the U.S. border surfaced in cows n... |
1738 | Global population living six years longer than in 1990: study. | Global life expectancy has risen by more than six years since 1990 thanks to falling death rates from cancer and heart disease in rich countries and better survival in poor countries from diarrhea, tuberculosis and malaria. | true | Health News | In an analysis from the 2013 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study, health researchers said, however, that while life expectancy is rising almost everywhere in the world, one notable exception is southern sub-Saharan Africa, where deaths from HIV/AIDS have erased some five years of life expectancy since 1990. “The progr... |
36608 | Images show a calcified fetus found in the cervix of an 80-year-old woman after three decades. | Did a Medical Scan of an 80-Year-Old Woman Reveal a Calcified Fetus? | mixture | Fact Checks, Viral Content | On December 11, 2018, a Facebook user shared the following image and caption purportedly showing a genuine calcified fetus:80 year old lady [emoji], went to have a cat-scan, and they found a fetus that’s been in her cervix for 30 yearsThe referenced phenomenon (a calcified fetus or lithopedion) is real, but many reader... |
8025 | Iran to use 20% of state budget to fight coronavirus. | Iran is to allocate 20% of its annual state budget to fighting the coronavirus outbreak in the country, one of the worst-hit in the world, President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday. | true | Health News | Iran’s death toll from coronavirus rose to 2,517 on Saturday, with 139 fatalities in the past 24 hours, as cases rose 3,076 to 35,408, Health Ministry spokesman Kianoush Jahanpour said on state television. “We are in difficult conditions, in conditions of sanctions but we have allocated 20% of our budget this year to c... |
5235 | California voters may be asked to steer homeless to services. | California voters could decide next year whether to create new county courts to steer homeless people to mental health and drug addiction treatment programs. | true | Mental health, Addiction treatment, Health, General News, California, Courts, Drug addiction | Former Assemblyman Mike Gatto, a Democrat, proposed a ballot measure on Thursday aimed at providing services to people who commit crimes like defecating in public or using drugs. “When someone breaks the law, it should be enforced. However, certain criminal acts should be treated not as something meriting harsh punishm... |
23637 | There's no negative advertising in my campaign at all. | Negative campaigning? Not me, says Bill McCollum | false | Elections, Florida, Bill McCollum, | "Bill McCollum tried to put his tougher-than-expected Republican primary for governor into perspective during a discussion with reporters in Tallahassee on July 29, 2010. Here's the upshot: Rick Scott has spent millions of dollars crafting a negative lie-filled television campaign that has distorted voters' impressions... |
39681 | Baylor Fredrickson, a 7-year-old boy from Albany, N.Y., is looking for a bone marrow donor. | Baylor Fredrickson Needs Bone Marrow Match. | true | Medical, Pleas | The appeal is real, according to a May 7, 2014, ABC News article that said the family of Baylor Fredrickson, a 7-year-old bi-racial boy who is battling Leukemia, are seeking donors who need to be ethnically similar to him. The article said, “Baylor needs a bone marrow transplant and his sister Maddie is not a match. Th... |
8340 | India will allow some exports of anti-malaria drug after Trump appeal. | India will allow some exports of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump urged New Delhi to release supplies of the drug seen as a possible treatment for COVID-19. | true | Health News | The Indian government had earlier put a hold on exports of hydroxychloroquine as well as on the pain reliever, paracetamol, saying it had to meet its internal demand. But Trump spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the weekend seeking supplies and later hinted that India may face retaliation. “It has been decided ... |
3326 | Grin and bear it: Berlin panda gets CT scan for kidney exam. | A Berlin zoo says a giant panda whose twin cubs have captured international attention has undergone a CT scan after veterinarians discovered one of his kidneys was smaller than the other. | true | Wildlife, Animals, Bears, CT scans, Health, Berlin, Giant pandas, Science, Europe, General News, International News | The zoo said Tuesday that 9-year-old Jiao Qing was examined last week by experts at the city’s Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research after the discrepancy was picked up on an ultrasound. The 110-kilogram (243-pound) bear underwent the scan while under anesthesia. Doctors confirmed one kidney is smaller. The p... |
24635 | On a single-payer health care system. | Obama statements on single-payer have changed a bit | mixture | National, Health Care, Barack Obama, | "President Barack Obama has been prodding Congress to follow his principles on health care reform. He's advocating the same principles he supported during the campaign: Keeping employer-provided insurance in place, making it easier for people to shop for private insurance through a regulated exchange, expanding program... |
20459 | "Because of the new health care law, ""2.5 million young adults now have coverage." | Barack Obama film touts coverage for 2.5 million young Americans | true | National, Health Care, Message Machine 2012, Barack Obama, | "The Road We’ve Traveled -- a 17-minute film from President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign -- touts his achievements in health care, saying that the Affordable Care Act has substantially expanded coverage for millions of Americans. We’re checking several claims from the film, including one that ""2.5 million young... |
8174 | Netanyahu threatens Israeli lockdown orders in coronavirus crisis. | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday lockdown orders would be issued unless people stepped up compliance with guidelines urging them to stay at home to help halt the spread of the coronavirus in Israel. | true | Health News | In a controversial new measure for containing infections, the Health Ministry said it alerted people who had been exposed to coronavirus carriers, based on information it gleaned through “technological means” - an apparent reference to cyber-surveillance on loan from the Shin Bet counter-terrorism agency. “Yesterday we... |
9518 | Taking Fish Oil During Pregnancy Is Found to Lower Child’s Asthma Risk | This New York Times story looks at a new study showing a reduced risk of asthma in the children of mothers who took high doses of fish oil during the last trimester of pregnancy. The story was strong–it did a lot of things well. We were especially pleased to see the Times use both absolute and relative risk numbers whe... | true | fish oil,supplements | The story did not discuss cost. There are dozens of fish oil supplements on the market and their cost varies widely. The story could have given some sense of the financial impact that this regimen would have. This was a strong point of the story, giving us both absolute and relative risk figures up front in the second ... |
33652 | Thieves who work shopping malls are robbing women in washrooms and leaving them naked. | Are shopping mall thieves robbing women in washrooms and leaving them naked? | false | Crime, crime warnings | The spurious “warning to women” alert below began appearing in inboxes in mid-August 2002 as an article “from the AP news wire,” and a slightly rewritten version (minus the Associated Press attribution) initiated another round of forwardings in mid-2005 and again in late 2007. This story is (and always was) fiction, an... |
9160 | Investigational dose of oral interferon-free treatment can cure hepatitis C in children | This news release from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) heralding the safety and efficacy of a combination drug therapy for children with hepatitis C does a good job in several areas. It explains the scope of benefits and harms, how the study was conducted, and how the therapy could improve tr... | true | European Association for the Study of the Liver,hepatitis c | There’s no mention of costs. The manufacturer, Gilead Sciences, has been charging $94,500 for a 12-week regimen of this combination therapy, marketed to adults as Harvoni. While government and private payers have balked at the cost, the company says the price tag is justified by its effectiveness in eradicating the vir... |
9084 | Cooling treatment reduces epilepsy in children | The news release focuses on a recent journal article that describes findings from a long-term study about the effects of “therapeutic hypothermia” on newborn infants who have been deprived of oxygen at birth. Specifically, the release focuses on the finding that lowering the body temperature of infants after perinatal ... | false | perinatal asphyxia,Therapeutic hypothermia,University of Bristol | The release doesn’t address cost. Given that the cost can run into thousands of dollars, that’s a significant issue. The headline claims a reduction in epilepsy but the release does not provide any numbers backing up that claim. The closest the release comes to describing a benefit is stating that the children “had muc... |
8186 | Mexico, former swine flu hub, tests nerves with coronavirus strategy. | Mexican officials are dragging their feet on border closures and coronavirus containment measures, in what critics call a high risk strategy driven by bad memories of a shutdown a decade ago that deepened the country’s recession during the swine flu epidemic. | true | Health News | The United States and neighbors in Latin America have suspended flights, banned public gatherings and closed schools. In Mexico City, however, tens of thousands of music fans rocked out to Guns and Roses at a festival at the weekend. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador also went on tour, hugging surging crowds of sup... |
22077 | The health care price tag for childhood obesity in Georgia is $2.4 billion annually and rising. | Deal uses wrong number to make case about childhood obesity | false | Georgia, Public Health, Nathan Deal, | "Georgia’s weight problem is making us lighter in the wallet. And we’re not just talking about the adults. Gov. Nathan Deal last week went to an intermediate school in White County to talk about his plans for a statewide initiative to battle childhood obesity. Not only did the governor speak to students about the healt... |
38634 | Halos Cuties mandarin oranges are grown in California using toxic wastewater from oil refineries, according to viral reports. | Halos Cuties Are Grown Using Toxic Waste Water. | false | Food / Drink | Reports that Halos Cuties are grown using wastewater from oil refineries can be traced back to mid-2015. The real question isn’t whether or not this occurs. The real question is whether or not treated wastewater from oil refineries is safe to use for crop irrigation, or if, as the rumor claims, it’s “toxic.” Mother Jon... |
33626 | A woman sued her ex-boyfriend for surreptitiously tattooing a pile of excrement on her back. | Exactly who is pictured in the original photograph, and what the tattoo shown was intended to depict, remain unknown. Some viewers have suggested that the tattoo might be a representation of moths being drawn to a candle flame that is sitting atop a pile of stones rather than of flies buzzing around a pile of feces. | false | Fauxtography, Body Modifications | In November 2011, news outlets (such as the UK’s Sun) picked up a news story about a “furious woman suing her ex-boyfriend after he tattooed a steaming poo on her back”: Rossie Brovent wants £60,000 in damages from Ryan Fitzjerald. Rossie, from Dayton, Ohio, US, wanted a scene from the Narnia trilogy inked on her bac... |
10066 | Study: Breast-Feeding Won’t Deter Obesity | The story reports on recently published data from the Nurses Health Study showing no association between breast feeding as an infant and protection again obesity in adulthood. The story appropriately mentions that there are many factors related to lifestyle and nutrition – in childhood and in later life – that can affe... | true | "The story does not list the cost of bottle formula, which may be a significant issue for some. It would have been easy to note one of the benefits not called into question about this report is that breastfeeding is ""free"". The story does not provide data showing there is no association between breastfeeding and prot... | |
36220 | Comedian Kevin Hart was paralyzed as a result of an auto accident that also damaged his vocal cords. | Was Kevin Hart ‘Paralyzed’ in a Car Crash? | false | Disinformation, Entertainment, Fact Checks | On September 2 2019, a blog seemingly devoted to ginning up traffic for “shocking videos” on a separate website made a detour into disinformation by attempting to capitalize on comedian Kevin Hart’s real-life auto accident.According to the post, which appeared on UrbanIndustryNews.com:The comedian suffered trauma to th... |
18449 | "Ted Poe Says new Medicare billing guidelines ""have nine codes for (injuries by) turkeys." | Poe said doctors face a new regulatory burden, requiring them to use a system that includes nine different codes for turkey injuries. His office pointed us to the new codes, which will be required for Medicare claims by October 2014. Indeed, if your Thanksgiving tradition takes a tragic turn that year, your doctor will... | true | National, Animals, Health Care, Government Regulation, Medicaid, Medicare, Regulation, Ted Poe, | "Doctors’ offices, already burdened by federal billing bureaucracy, will soon find themselves pecked to death by new rules, Texas congressman Ted Poe says. New diagnosis codes required for reimbursement are so specific, he told Fox Business Network host John Stossel, there are a set of them just for injuries caused by ... |
3019 | Wisconsin child dies of flu; hundreds hospitalized in state. | A child in Wisconsin has died from influenza, marking the state’s first pediatric flu-related death of the season, health officials said Friday. | true | Health, Wisconsin, Flu | Officials said the child was under 10 years old and died on the way to a hospital in southeastern Wisconsin. Officials said they don’t know if the child was vaccinated; the child had moved to Wisconsin just a couple months ago. Department of Health Services influenza surveillance coordinator Tom Haupt said 622 people h... |
1768 | Ebola gives U.S. 'preppers' another reason to prepare for worst. | With the closest known U.S. cases of Ebola diagnosed about 160 miles away in Dallas, Cary Griffin is taking no chances. | true | Health News | If, as the former correctional officer fears, the virus spreads to hundreds of people, Griffin is headed to the woods. “I’ll do what the English royalty did to survive the bubonic plague,” Griffin said, referring to King Charles II’s flight to the countryside during the Great Plague of London in 1665-66. “I’m going int... |
41040 | You should gargle as a prevention with salt in warm water. | There’s no evidence this will prevent or cure the virus. | unproven | online | If you have a runny nose and sputum, you have a common cold. These are the symptoms for the common cold, but they don’t rule out Covid-19. Coronavirus pneumonia is a dry cough with no runny nose. Some Covid-19 patients do get pneumonia, and one of the symptoms is a dry cough. A runny nose doesn’t rule out Covid-19. The... |
11544 | New Test Aids Prognosis for Colon-Cancer Patients | "As the ratings show, this story about a new genetic test for colon cancer falls short of journalistic best practices in several ways. Among other things it fails to report costs, explain the results clearly, provide necessary caveats or put the test in context of clinical use. Worse than that, viewed as a whole the st... | false | "A company official declines to estimate how much the test will cost. This information is in the last line of the story. It’s tempting to assign a satisfactory rating for at least asking the question. But a more complete story would have asked the official to estimate a price compared to the company’s similar breast ca... | |
20287 | "Mike Dovilla Says President Obama's decision to not issue a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline meant ""we were denied the ability immediately to reduce prices at the pump." | Mike Dovilla: Obama's refusal to allow the Keystone Pipeline thwarted ability to reduce gas prices | false | Ohio, Climate Change, Economy, Energy, Gas Prices, Mike Dovilla, | "Both houses of the Ohio General Assembly approved resolutions in the past 10 months urging Congress to ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to approve the controversial TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline project from Alberta to Oklahoma. The Ohio House acted last June. The Senate passed its resolution in January, as P... |
11698 | Paul Sperry Says border fencing finished near El Paso in 2010 dramatically curtailed illegal crossings, local crime and drug smuggling. | Sperry wrote that the fencing finished near El Paso in 2010 dramatically curtailed illegal crossings, local crime and drug smuggling. Such crossings evidently plunged after the fencing was built (though they later rebounded a bit) and it could be that drug smuggling fell off as well. Yet this claim fails to account for... | mixture | Immigration, Homeland Security, Texas, Paul Sperry, | "Conservative Paul Sperry highlighted fencing erected near El Paso a decade ago as evidence that President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall could enhance security. Sperry wrote in a January 2018 New York Post commentary that the fencing, described as completed in 2010, explains a dramatic decrease in violent crime i... |
8083 | Israel's Netanyahu says complete lockdown unavoidable unless new infections ebb. | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday there would be “no avoiding” a complete lockdown of the country without a decrease in the rate of new coronavirus infections. | true | Health News | Israel has seen five deaths and close to 2,400 cases so far. Citizens hoping for a stroll or jog were instructed earlier on Wednesday to stay within 100 metres (110 yards) of their homes for a week under tightened restrictions to curb the contagion. The new restrictions further reduced public transport, required employ... |
9592 | Kids With Anxiety Disorders ‘Significantly’ Benefit From Mindfulness Exercises By Changing Brain Activity | The story addresses the use of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy as a means of treating anxiety disorders in children, focusing on a recent study of nine children who had been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder and who had a parent with bipolar disorder. The story reports that the study found cognitive therapy was ef... | false | anxiety,cognitive behavioral therapy | Cost is not discussed at all. How much does cognitive therapy cost for children with anxiety disorders? Does it require long-term treatment with multiple sessions? Is it usually covered by health insurance providers? These are all important questions for families who have a child experiencing an anxiety disorder — and ... |
8076 | Bindi Irwin ties knot ahead of Australian clampdown on weddings. | Bindi Irwin, daughter of the late ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin, wed on Wednesday at her family’s Australia Zoo, in an event that spurred online protest as it came just hours before a ban on ceremonies with more than two witnesses took effect. | true | Environment | Irwin posted a wedding snap on social media late Wednesday, saying: “We held a small ceremony and I married by best friend.” “We’ve planned this beautiful day for nearly a year and had to change everything, as we didn’t have guests at our wedding. This was a very difficult decision but important to keep everyone safe,... |
6868 | Lions QB Stafford sits out workout as wife has brain tumor. | Detroit Lions quarterback Matthew Stafford did not join his teammates at voluntary workouts Tuesday and later in the day, his wife was packing for a hospital visit. | true | Health, Tumors, NFL, Detroit, Detroit Lions, Matthew Stafford, Graham Glasgow, Football | Stafford’s wife, Kelly, announced earlier this month she plans to have surgery to remove a brain tumor . She posted on Instagram two days later, thanking everyone for an outpouring of support . “I’m excited for this journey to come to an end and move on with my life!” Kelly Stafford posted Tuesday night. Lions center G... |
9567 | No More Readers? New Implant May Help Aging Eyes | This story tells a single anecdote about a woman who has trouble reading close-up materials, known as presbyopia. To fix this, she has a product known as Raindrop Near Vision Inlay, which was recently approved by the FDA, implanted in one eye. The story claims she can see better within 15 minutes, but readers aren’t gi... | mixture | vision loss | The story gives us the price of $4-5,000 for surgery, which is not likely to be covered by insurance or Medicare. This story gives us an anecdote about a single patient, who is apparently the first person to have the implant outside of clinical trials. This is not helpful for the readers who want to know the research e... |
28086 | "Sen. Bernie Sanders once supported a proposal to ""dump nuclear waste"" in the ""poor Latino community"" of Sierra Blanca, Texas." | "What's true: Sanders did support a proposal in which Maine and Vermont could dispose of low-level nuclear waste a proposed site in Sierra Blanca, Texas, which is a predominantly Latino and relatively poor community. What's undetermined: It's not clear whether Sanders told activists he would ""absolutely not"" visit th... | true | Politics, bernie sanders, nuclear waste, texas | In April 2018, the right-leaning Turning Point USA posted a Facebook meme which attacked Independent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders for once supporting a proposal to “dump nuclear waste” in a “poor Latino community in Texas”: In the 90’s, Trump supported a bill to dump nuclear waste in Sierra Blanca, a poor Latino comm... |
8224 | UAE cancels events, flights as central bank announces coronavirus fiscal plan. | The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it was shutting major tourism and cultural venues to contain the spread of coronavirus and announced a $27-billion plan to counter the outbreak’s economic impact. | true | Health News | Attractions such as the Louvre Abu Dhabi museum and the Ferrari World theme park will be closed from March 15-31, the Abu Dhabi Government Media Office said, while the country’s civil aviation authority indefinitely suspended flights to and from Lebanon, Turkey, Syria and Iraq from March 17. The UAE, which has reported... |
33786 | Hospitals experienced a sharp increase in births nine months after September 11. | Catastrophe, be it a personal tragedy or a communal horror, often serves as a wake-up call to those who’ve been letting their lives slip through their fingers, but how individuals will choose to react to such a clarion call is unpredictable. Yes, important decisions may be spurred by horrifying events, but people don’t... | false | September 11th | The search for even the smallest positive arising from the horror that was the September 11 terrorist attacks led to the resurrection of a cherished legend so often kited in the wake of intense, short-lived disasters: a terrible event led to a significant spike in the birth rate nine months later. This belief was widel... |
7969 | Somali doctor, veteran of many battles, girds for war with coronavirus. | Somali doctor Abdirizak Yusuf Ahmed has escaped an execution, battled deadly diseases and treated war victims. Now - at 35 years old - he’s been tapped to lead his nation’s response to the coronavirus. | true | Health News | So far, Somalia has reported only three cases. But if the disease is unleashed, it could spread like wildfire through camps housing malnourished families who huddle under makeshift domes built from sticks and rags. Many of the 2.4 million Somalis displaced by conflict and other disasters live in such camps. Out of a to... |
33259 | The artificial sweetener aspartame is responsible for an epidemic of cancer, brain tumors, and multiple sclerosis. | Reports of the ingestion of aspartame in patients who later have suffered multiple sclerosis or systemic lupus is obviously not scientifically sustainable evidence. | false | Medical, aspartame, Toxin Du Jour | The following message about the alleged dangers of the artificial sweetener aspartame has been circulating online for two decades now: I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on “ASPARTAME marketed as ‘NutraSweet’, ‘Equal’, and ‘Spoonful”‘. In the keynote address by the EPA, they anno... |
9171 | FDA approves new eczema drug Dupixent | This news release from the FDA announces the agency’s approval of a new drug, dupilumab (to be marketed as Dupixent), for treating eczema, or atopic dermatitis. It briefly describes the type of clinical trials leading to the approval and identifies the possible harms that might arise from use of this injectable drug. I... | true | Dupixent,eczema,FDA | The FDA evaluates drugs without considering costs, which is why they are not discussed in this news release. We hope the FDA will also begin commenting on the projected cost of a drug and its cost-effectiveness. In this case, costs are very steep. An NBC.com story on the approval which we also reviewed, predicts the dr... |
4658 | Board to consider new conditions for medical marijuana use. | The state Medical Board is accepting new petitions through the end of the year from those seeking to add illnesses as qualifying conditions for physicians to recommend medical marijuana to Ohio patients, cleveland.com reported. | true | Ohio, General News, Medical marijuana, Marijuana | Once an illness is added to the list of approved conditions, the board cannot remove it because state law does not give the board authority to do so, according to board spokeswoman Tessie Pollock. Petitions will be reviewed early next year. AIDS, Alzheimer’s disease, and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, are among... |
6122 | Trump cites his support for Medicare, slams Medicare for All. | President Donald Trump on Thursday accused Democrats of an all-out attempt to “totally obliterate Medicare” and portrayed himself as the program’s defender as he signed a directive to expand the program’s private insurance options. | true | Seniors, Health, General News, Politics, Impeachments, Medicare, Donald Trump | Trump skipped past his own proposals for Medicare budget cuts, and he ignored the fact that no Democrat is proposing to take coverage or benefits away from seniors. During a visit to The Villages, a bustling community for adults in Central Florida, Trump was trying to turn attention away from House Democrats’ impeachme... |
28039 | A photograph shows a tombstone from 1875 that marks the resting place of Kate McCormick, who reportedly died after a botched abortion. | The inscription on the stone reads: “Kate McCormick Seduced and pregnant by her father’s friend, unwed, she died from abortion, her only choice. Abandoned in life and death by family. With but a single rose from her mother. Buried only through the kindness of unknown benefactors. Died Feb. 1875 age 21. Victim of an unf... | true | Fauxtography, abortion | A photograph supposedly showing the gravestone of a woman named Kate McCormick, who passed away in the 1870s from a fatally botched abortion, has been circulating online for several years. In May 2019, the Facebook page “American News X” revived interest in the image: This is a genuine photograph of a tombstone markin... |
13385 | "Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Says marijuana use among Colorado high school students ""has not increased since legalization." | "The ad claimed, ""according to the Colorado state government, marijuana use among high school students has not increased since legalization."" Based on the numbers cited, there does appear to have been a slight increase in marijuana use among Colorado’s high school students. However, multiple experts we spoke with sai... | mixture | Arizona, Marijuana, Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, | "Colorado has been the measuring stick for both supporters and opponents of an initiative to legalize recreational marijuana in Arizona this November. A recent ad from the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, a pro-marijuana group, attempts to show the positive effects of marijuana regulation in Colorado, highl... |
2078 | Surgery prevents breast cancers in high-risk women. | Women with mutations in the well-known BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes who have their breasts and ovaries removed are much more likely to survive than women who do not get preventive surgery, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. | true | Health News | Vasiliki Kostoula, a Greek breast cancer patient, is framed through a breast x-ray after a radiological medical examination in an Athens hospital October 29, 2008. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis The study shows the benefits of genetic tests that give women with a family history of cancer the chance to take steps to increase t... |
2462 | U.S. obesity leveling off, but at high rate: report. | Obesity levels among adults appear to be holding steady across the United States, adding to recent evidence that the growth rate for U.S. waistlines is slowing, according to an analysis released on Friday. | true | Health News | But within the holding pattern there is a dramatic rise in “extreme” obesity among adults and children. The annual “F as in Fat” report from the Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found that the proportion of adults who are extremely obese - at least 100 pounds (45.4 kilograms) overweight... |
28181 | Scientific studies support the conclusion that marijuana can play a role in healing broken bones. | It is also important to note that this is an ongoing area of investigation hampered by legal restrictions on research, that few large-scale studies have been performed, and that these studies are dominantly on laboratory animals or isolated cells, not on humans. | true | Medical, drug rumors, drugs, marijuana | Despite being used both recreationally and medicinally for millennia, the mechanisms by which cannabis affects the human body have only recently come to light. The most significant development in this body of work is the discovery of what scientists term the “endocannabinoid system,” a collection of chemical pathways f... |
8075 | New York sees glimmer of progress against coronavirus, New Orleans worsens. | New York state, leading the nation in coronavirus infections and deaths, is showing tentative signs of curbing the spread of the disease, the governor said on Wednesday, even as fatalities in New York City jumped while the health crisis deepened in hard-hit New Orleans and elsewhere. | true | Health News | The rate of hospitalizations in New York has slowed in recent days, Governor Andrew Cuomo said, with numbers he called “almost too good to be true.” He also hailed the enlistment of 40,000 retired nurses, physicians and other medical professionals signing up for a “surge health care force,” but warned much remains to b... |
5895 | Former President Jimmy Carter celebrates 95th birthday. | Jimmy Carter celebrated his 95th birthday on Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone as he continues his humanitarian work and occasionally weighs in on politics and policy. | true | Georgia, Health, General News, Politics, Africa, AP Top News, Donald Trump, Atlanta, U.S. News, Jimmy Carter, United States | Carter still lives in tiny Plains, Georgia, and planned no public celebrations on Tuesday. But he’s had plenty to say recently, warning that re-electing President Donald Trump would be “a disaster” and expressing hopes that his Carter Center will become a more forceful advocate against armed conflicts in the future, in... |
3782 | 1 in 2 seriously ill Medicare enrollees struggles with bills. | More than half of seriously ill Medicare enrollees face financial hardships with medical bills, with prescription drug costs the leading problem, according to a study published Monday. | true | Seniors, Health, General News, Legislation, Politics, Prescription drug costs, Prescription drugs, Medicare | The study in the journal Health Affairs comes as legislation to curb drug costs for seniors languishes in Congress and the growing financial exposure of patients with insurance is getting more attention in the nation’s health care debates. The survey findings were a surprise to researchers, since Medicare is considered... |
32412 | "Edward Snowden was ""pronounced dead"" by his girlfriend in Russia in August 2016." | "A fake news web site's claim that Edward Snowden was ""pronounced dead by his girlfriend"" has been aggregated by other low-credibility sites but remains false." | false | Junk News, dead man's switch, disclose.tv, edward snowden | On 10 August 2016, the unreliable web site Disclose.tv published an article reporting that former National Security Agency (NSA) employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden was “pronounced dead by his girlfriend” in Russia: Days after Edward Snowden‘s rumored death was debunked by journalist Glenn Greenwald and a Russian... |
8127 | Spain lauds the medics on the front line of coronavirus crisis. | Spain paid tribute on Monday to front-line staff battling a worsening coronavirus outbreak that has infected nearly 4,000 health workers, who make up more than a tenth of known cases in the country. | true | Health News | The virus killed a further 462 people overnight in Spain, Europe’s second hardest hit country after Italy, bringing the death toll to 2,182. Nurses, doctors and other health workers have echoed the complaints of their counterparts in other countries, saying they lack protective equipment like masks. The national health... |
30494 | Singer Toni Braxton has passed away at age 50 of unknown causes. | That this report of Braxton’s death is mere misinformation is not surprising, as the REPORTS site at breaking-cnn.com is a known purveyor a fake news, including previous death hoaxes about singers such as Marilyn Manson and Phil Collins. | false | Junk News, breaking-cnn.com | On 4 April 2018, a web site reported that Grammy Award-winning singer Toni Braxton had passed away at age 50 of as yet undetermined causes: American singer Toni Braxton has died after been rushed to hospital on Tuesday night for feeling “unresponsive” at home, family tells the media. According to the family’s spokespe... |
17812 | "Suzanne Bonamici Says ""nearly 30,000"" federal employees in Oregon were furloughed during the government shutdown." | Were 30,000 Oregonians employed by federal government furloughed during shutdown? | false | Oregon, Economy, Federal Budget, Jobs, Suzanne Bonamici, | "The federal government is finally reopening its doors, and hundreds of thousands of furloughed employees are back on the job. Still, the cost to the economy lingers. Recently, Standard & Poor’s, the financial services company, estimated that the 16-day shutdown cost the U.S. economy some $24 billion. In an opinion pie... |
3373 | Austin measles case not a threat, officials warn of fevers. | An Austin resident who was diagnosed with measles is no longer a health threat, but officials are urging some people to get medical attention if they develop a fever before New Year’s Day. | true | Measles, Health, Austin, Public health, Texas | Public health officials made the plea to anyone who visited specific Austin locations that the affected resident was in between Dec. 14 and Dec. 17. The Austin American-Statesman created a map of those locations. The resident is currently not in Texas. Measles is a virus that can cause high fever, cough, runny nose and... |
23423 | I can put 10,000 people to work. Electricians, plumbers, sheet metal workers -- by retrofitting all of the state buildings for energy independence or efficiency. | Barnes ad claims he can put 10,000 people to work through energy program | mixture | Georgia, Energy, Roy Barnes, | "It is one of the most striking claims of this campaign season. Roy Barnes, former Georgia governor who is hoping to return to the Governor's Mansion in January, said in a televised campaign ad he can put 10,000 people to work. How? ""By retrofitting each state building to make them more energy-efficient,"" he said in ... |
25764 | "Senate Majority PAC Says Susan Collins ""voted against accountability for opioid makers” and denied taking campaign money from a family who made its wealth selling OxyContin." | Collins voted against one measure that would have punished opioid manufacturers and their executives because she said it was overly broad. She also voted for measures to hold opioid manufacturers accountable for the distribution of suspiciously large orders of drugs and for drug diversion. Collins did say no when asked... | false | Campaign Finance, Drugs, Government Regulation, Senate Majority PAC, | "The opioid addiction crisis, along with the billions earned by the maker of OxyContin, are being invoked in a race that could help determine whether Republicans keep control of the U.S. Senate. The target is four-term GOP incumbent Susan Collins of Maine. The attack comes from Senate Majority PAC, which works to elect... |
3903 | State will pay $10M to mental health providers after suit. | New Mexico will pay out $10 million to resolve the last remaining lawsuits over a shake-up of its behavioral health system in 2013 under the prior administration of Republican Gov. Susana Martinez. | true | Mental health, General News, Susana Martinez, Business, Medicaid, New Mexico, Lawsuits, Santa Fe | Disclosed Wednesday by the Human Services Department, the settlement locks in payments to five businesses and turns the page on a bitter confrontation that drove many mental health care providers away or out of business completely. Martinez’s administration froze payments to 15 mental health service providers in 2013 a... |
4177 | Advisory in place for Idaho’s Winchester Lake. | A public health advisory is in place for Winchester Lake after testing indicated elevated levels of toxins produced by blue-green algae. | true | Health, General News, Lakes, Algae, Public health, Idaho | The Lewiston Tribune reports health officials and the Nez Perce Tribe have urged people to use caution when spending time in or near the water. A release from Public Health Idaho North Central District states that blue-green algae is a natural part of Idaho’s water bodies. But when temperatures rise, their populations ... |
26548 | Facebook post Says for otherwise healthy people “experiencing mild to moderate respiratory symptoms with or without a COVID-19 diagnosis … only high temperatures kill a virus, so let your fever run high,” but not over 103 or 104 degrees. | A fever makes it harder for some viruses to survive, but it’s not yet known whether that’s true for the novel coronavirus. You might not need to treat a fever that’s under 103 degrees. But it depends on age, general health, other symptoms and other factors. If you have COVID-19 symptoms such as fever, cough and shortne... | false | Public Health, Facebook Fact-checks, Coronavirus, Facebook posts, | "If you’re a mostly healthy person who contracts the coronavirus, will letting your fever run high help get rid of it? That’s what a post shared on Facebook suggests. It says: ""Passing along corona advise from a retired respiratory therapist"" for ""the otherwise generally healthy population."" It lists eight recommen... |
810 | French mayors ban glyphosate weedkiller, defying government. | Some 20 French mayors have banned glyphosate from their municipalities, defying the government, which is now taking legal action to impose national legislation which allows the controversial weedkiller’s continued use for now. | true | Environment | In 2017, President Emmanuel Macron had pledged to ban glyphosate in France within three years, rejecting a European Union decision to extend its use for five years after heated debate over whether glyphosate, developed by Bayer-owned Monsanto, can cause cancer. But Macron has since said that a blanket ban is not possib... |
3431 | Northern Irish nurses strike over pay, staffing levels. | Nurses in Northern Ireland walked off the job Wednesday in outrage over poor staffing and pay that lags in comparison to their counterparts in England and Wales. | true | England, Health, Europe, General News, Strikes, Europe, Wales, Northern Ireland | Picket lines formed outside hospitals as men and women waved signs including “Safe Staffing Saves Lives,” and “Fair Pay Now.″ Passing ambulances let sirens wail in solidarity. Cars honked horns. “We don’t do this lightly — it is the first time we have gone on strike in 103 years,″ said Donna Kinnair, general secretary ... |
27952 | An article accurately recounts details of Senator John McCain's divorce from his first wife, Carol. | As for the subjective parts of the article, a number of different people who knew the McCains, including John and Carol themselves, have offered widely differing opinions and interpretations regarding John McCain’s first marriage and the reasons why it ended — the “why” is a question with no definitive answer. It’s wor... | true | Politics Politicians, john mccain | Carol McCain McCain likes to illustrate his moral fiber by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children. But there is another Mrs... |
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