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Tech investor gets five towns to join social-health experiment.
Technology investor Esther Dyson thinks she has found the answer to America’s growing health concerns, and has enlisted five smaller cities across the country to try and prove it.
true
Health News
Dyson, an early investor in Square and board member for Yandex, Russia’s answer to Google Inc, has drafted five towns to participate in a five-year long test, or what she calls a “healthy living challenge.” By introducing programs and urban planning initiatives, such as wholesome school lunches, corporate wellness pro...
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New Mexico to bolster Medicaid spending on mental health.
New Mexico is seeking to bolster access to a variety of health care services, including mental health treatment, in rural areas with a $78.5 million proposed increase in annual Medicaid spending, the Human Services Department announced Tuesday.
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Mental health, Health, General News, Medicaid, New Mexico, Health care services, Health care industry
The agency already increased federally subsidized Medicaid payments earlier this year by roughly $230 million to hospitals, physicians and other providers. Slated to start Oct. 1, the newly proposed rate increases rely heavily on federal matching funds, leveraging a state general fund appropriation of $16 million to in...
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Swiss tap pharmaceutical reserves as coronavirus deaths rise.
Switzerland has begun tapping its strategic stockpile of pharmaceuticals to cover rising demand caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the government said on Friday amid a “vigorous” rise in the country’s death toll and number of infections.
true
Health News
Switzerland, headquarters for pharmaceutical companies such as Novartis and Roche, released medicines including powerful painkillers from stores that it sets aside for crises, said an official in the Federal Office for National Economic Supply. The government has already rationed some common painkillers and anti-fever ...
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Oakland County health officials confirm rabies in pet cat.
Health officials in suburban Detroit have confirmed rabies in a pet cat.
true
Animals, Rabies, Health, General News, Detroit, Cats, Pets
The confirmation in Birmingham Friday follows verification so far this year of the disease in four bats and 11 skunks in Oakland County. Officials said last month that a dead skunk found in nearby West Bloomfield tested positive for rabies. Other Oakland County communities with rabies confirmed in skunks include Southf...
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A rural hospital in Missouri closes every 8 months. The legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid has brought crisis to many of Missouri’s rural health care providers.
"Our ruling Koster said, ""A rural hospital in Missouri closes every 8 months. The legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid has brought crisis to many of Missouri’s rural health care providers."" Koster said, ""A rural hospital in Missouri closes every 8 months. The legislature’s failure to expand Medicaid has brought ...
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Medicaid, Missouri, Chris Koster,
"As we move into the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, Democratic gubernatorial nominee and Attorney General Chris Koster is making a point to separate his political stances from the actions of the Missouri General Assembly. In a graphic posted on Instagram, Koster’s campaign wrote, ""The legislature’s failure to...
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The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that up to half of daily marijuana smokers become addicted -- an estimated 2.7 million people in the U.S.
"Susan Shapiro wrote ""The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that up to half of daily marijuana smokers become addicted -- an estimated 2.7 million people in the U.S."" The survey found that 5.4 million people reported using marijuana daily or almost daily. A more detailed table from the same survey sho...
true
Rhode Island, Drugs, Marijuana, Susan Shapiro,
"Vigorous debate surrounds efforts to legalize marijuana around the nation and in Rhode Island, where advocates are pushing legalization proposals in the General Assembly. (In 2013, the state decriminalized possession of small amounts of non-medical  marijuana.) Author Susan Shapiro, who says she is ambivalent about le...
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Scorpion venom component can reduce severity of rheumatoid arthritis
This news release reports on a study that found a component of scorpion venom — called iberiotoxin — reduced the severity of rheumatoid arthritis in rats without producing adverse effects associated a with a similar treatment. The study was published in the Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. The rel...
mixture
Baylor College of Medicine,rheumatoid arthritis,scorpion venom
There’s no discussion of how much a product like this might cost or how the cost might compare with other treatments. Peptides International (funders of the study) lists iberiotoxin at $295 per 0.1 ml vial on its website. However, we’re never told how much toxin is used when applied as a treatment so it’s impossible to...
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In late September 2020, the U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed millions of federally funded aid boxes that included a letter from President Donald Trump crediting his administration for their distribution.
Democratic lawmakers argue that the letter violates the federal Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from using taxpayer resources to campaign or engage in other electioneering activities. While the president himself, who is up for reelection, is exempt from the law, the law does apply to White House staff, suc...
true
Politics, COVID-19
Letters written on behalf of U.S. President Donald Trump and printed on White House letterhead were included in millions of federally funded food aid boxes distributed across the nation to families in need, sparking controversy over whether the move violated federal law prohibiting certain political activities by U.S. ...
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Spinal fluid proteins can help diagnose Alzheimer’s
"While the headline and the lead sentence emphasize the potential usefulness of spinal fluid testing for confirmation of Alzheimer’s Disease diagnoses, the story incorrectly states that the test predicted disease progression. It says the test was ""able to detect 100 percent of people with memory impairments who would ...
false
This story mentions neither estimates of the direct costs of such a test nor the indirect financial implications of testing before symptoms appear. Although this story does a generally careful job of highlighting the potential use of spinal fluid testing to help diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease in people who are already ex...
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Veronica Escobar Says Texas “either is near the bottom or at the very bottom when it comes to testing per capita.”
Texas is one of the states that has administered the fewest coronavirus tests per capita. At the time of Escobar's statement, only Virginia and Kansas had tested fewer people per capita than Texas.
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Texas, Coronavirus, Veronica Escobar,
"As state leaders in Texas look to ease restrictions implemented to slow the spread of coronavirus in the state, some people have raised concerns about the number of tests the state has administered. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso, raised the issue during a webcast with the Wilson Center’s Mexico Institute and t...
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94 deaths from plague in Madagascar, UN health agency says.
An unusually large plague outbreak in Madagascar has taken 94 lives, the World Health Organization said Friday.
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World Health Organization, Madagascar, Geneva, Health, Africa, Plague, Travel, Indian Ocean
The number of suspected cases has reached 1,153, Dr. Ibrahima Soce Fall, Africa emergencies chief for the U.N. health agency, told reporters in Geneva. More cases are expected, “but we think we can affect the curve very quickly thanks to the deployment of human resources and all types of intervention,” he said. Interna...
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Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people
"This story covers a provocative commentary on the use of cognition-stimulating medications by healthy people. The commentary, published in the journal Nature, raises a topic that’s significant to people as individuals and to society as a whole. While clearly biased in favor of wider use of the drugs, the commentary cl...
mixture
"The article fails to report the prices of these drugs, which range from negligible [generic stimulants] to very high [Provigil]. The commentary itself does not cite data about the benefits. Indeed, the paper is in part a call for more research to determine the benefits and harms of various brain-boosting drugs. Having...
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"Georgia's U.S. senators voted for legislation that would ""gut clean air protections and increase oil dependence."
"Senators side with ""big oil,"" critic says"
mixture
Georgia, Environment, Energy, Stephen Kretzmann,
"Are Georgia's two U.S. senators too beholden to ""Big Oil"" companies? That's the claim on a website created by Oil Change International, critical about the positions of some U.S. senators on some oil and energy issues. The site, www.bobbinginpetroleum.org, has images of 46 senators, including Georgia's Saxby Chamblis...
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Germany confirms case of H5N8 bird flu in poultry farm.
A case of H5N8 bird flu has been confirmed in a poultry farm in the eastern German state of Saxony, German authorities said on Monday.
true
Health News
The social affairs and protection ministry in the state of Saxony said the case involved bird flu of type H5N8 found on a farm in Bad Lausick near Leipzig. All poultry on the farm has been slaughtered and a quarantine area set up around it. A series of outbreaks of the disease, which in the past has led to major disrup...
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Facebook post Says Democratic leaders aren’t wearing masks or social distancing in private
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been a strong supporter of masks, wearing them in her many public appearances. The picture cited as proof that she isn’t wearing the masks “in private” is from December 2019. At that point, it was still a month before the first confirmed COVID-19 case in the U.S., and several months befor...
false
Congress, Wisconsin, Coronavirus, Facebook posts,
"One of the many COVID-19 conspiracies circulating on Facebook focuses on the supposed benefits Democrats get from the presence of the virus. A June 30, 2020, post in a conservative Facebook group said ""hype"" about COVID-19 allows Democrats to limit President Donald Trump’s campaign rallies, minimize public attention...
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Adult swaddling therapy fad hits Tokyo.
Wrapped up from head to toe in a white bag and gently rocking from side to side, five Japanese mothers are hopeful Tokyo’s latest health trend can cure their post-pregnancy aches and pains.
true
Health News
According to its exponents, Otonamaki, which translates as “adult wrapping”, was devised by a Kyoto midwife who thought replicating how children are swaddled at birth could help mothers overcome post labor shoulder and hip pain. The five mothers at a recent session in Tokyo lay on their backs with their knees on their ...
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Medical First: Brain tumor breached with ultrasound
The story from STAT, an affiliate of Boston Globe Media, reports on the first patient to have a drug delivered into her brain facilitated by ultrasound waves, which work to open up the blood brain barrier. The procedure was carried out only to evaluate safety, with no therapeutic goal for the patient involved. A brain ...
mixture
chemotherapy,focused ultrasound,interventional radiology
The article doesn’t mention costs at all. It’s likely a very expensive procedure since interventional radiologists are involved. Since this is a single patient there is no quantification involved, so N/A. This is a single patient and the story does mention that “no damage from the ultrasound was visible inside her brai...
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"A meme shows a number of Soviet ""Space Race"" firsts, achievements of which many Americans are unaware."
‘Americans are So Brainwashed, They Think They Won the Space Race’ Meme
mixture
Fact Checks, Viral Content
On November 9 2019, a post to Reddit’s r/socialism made a titular claim that Americans “think they won the space race”:Americans are so brainwashed that they think they won the space race. from socialismAnother meme had previously appeared on Reddit, and it was shared to r/HistoryMemes on May 12 2019:The Space Race fro...
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As virus explodes, world races to mask up.
Spiez Lab, a government-run institute in the Swiss mountains, was set up to protect the nation from nuclear, biological and chemical threats. “For a world without weapons of mass destruction,” runs its slogan.
true
Health News
It is now fighting another global menace - the coronavirus - by providing face masks, the demand for which is growing faster than the disease they’re meant to fend off. Hospitals treating COVID-19, the pandemic caused by the virus, can need up to nine times the protective equipment they do when dealing with normal flu,...
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eRumor stating that Joe Biden will make an announcement that owing to health problems that he will step down as the Vice Presidential candidate and name Hillary Clinton as his replacement.
Joe Biden To Step Down October 5
unproven
Politics
This is a widely circulated eRumor that started in September, 2008, during the presidential campaign. There is no source cited and there has been nothing to substantiate it. The email builds upon hopes that Hillary Clinton could still end up on the Democratic ticket and speculation that presidential hopeful B...
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A Harvard Study showed that Tibetan Monks can significantly raise the temperature of their fingers, toes and other extremities through meditation alone.
We were able, for the first time, to document reliable [core body temperature] increases during the FB type of g-tummo practice, all within the slight to moderate fever zone, validating the legends of the extraordinary capacity of g-tummo meditators to elevate their body temperature beyond normal. However, the results ...
true
Science
In 1981, Harvard Medical School researcher Herbert Benson traveled to Tibet to meet with three Buddhist monks expertly trained in a form of yoga named g-tummo, a practice that is popularly associated with the ability to warm your body temperature through concentration. His academic interest in the practice lies in his ...
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People think AIDS is done -- it’s not done.
"Bono said that the ""public thinks AIDS is done -- it’s not done."" There's an obvious bit of rhetorical flourish in Bono's comments, but independent polling does show that the public sees AIDS as less of a threat both at home and overseas than it once did. However, people still rank it rather high on the global healt...
true
Global News Service, Public Health, Bono,
"Paul David Hewson is best known as Bono, the lead singer of the band U2. But he also is famous for his work to reduce poverty and disease, particularly in Africa. Over the years, Bono has met with presidents and billionaires and has enlisted mainstream retailers to funnel hundreds of millions of dollars to combat AIDS...
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Study adds evidence that bone drugs work, are safe
Although these drugs are supposed to strengthen bone, some reports have raised the possibility that they actually may increase the likelihood of an unusual type of fracture for some women. For the most part, this story provides a thorough look at new research suggesting that these fractures are extremely rare and do no...
true
"Treatment costs for both Fosamax and Reclast are provided. The story characterizes the benefits of these drugs in a way that is accurate and easy for readers to understand. It notes that treating 1,000 osteoporotic women for three years would prevent 100 fractures at a possible cost of only one or fewer thigh bone fra...
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As of June 2019, the United States was ranked as having the cleanest air in the world.
Clearly, the United States performs superbly well by several measures of air quality, as evidenced by its ranking among the top 10 out of almost 200 countries. However, President Trump quite definitively and specifically claimed in October 2018 and June 2019 that the U.S. had “the cleanest air in the world.” This is de...
false
Politics
During a visit to Ireland on 5 June 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump was confronted by a reporter with remarks made by Irish President Michael D. Higgins, who had said Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement was “regressive and pernicious.” In response, Trump made a series of claims about the sta...
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Ted Cruz tried to ban dildoes while serving as solicitor general of Texas.
"What's true: While Ted Cruz was serving as solicitor general of Texas, his office defended an existing law banning the sale of ""obscene devices."" What's false: Ted Cruz banned (or attempted to ban) the sale of dildoes in Texas, or personally supported a law that enforced such a ban."
false
Politics Politicians, ted cruz
Back in the 1970s, state of Texas banned the promotion of “obscene devices,” which were defined to be items “designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs,” including “a dildo or artificial vagina.” In the 1985 criminal case Yorko v. State (brought by an appellant who pled not gui...
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'Unprecedented' mental health issues seen in Hong Kong amid virus fears.
As Hong Kong tries to contain the coronavirus outbreak, medical experts say many in the Asian financial hub are reeling from increased anxiety and an unprecedented level of mental health issues.
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Health News
The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic came after months of tumultuous anti-government protests that had already led to a sharp increase in depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), they said. It also touches on fears of the 2003 SARS epidemic, which killed nearly 300 people in the city. “Hong Kong is in a unique position...
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FDA allows marketing of cooling cap to reduce hair loss during chemotherapy
Credit: DigniCapThe Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued this news release following its approval of the first cooling cap for the U.S. market. While undergoing chemotherapy, breast cancer patients may pursue courses of treatment with the DigniCap scalp cooling device to prevent hair loss. The release does a few t...
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Breast cancer,FDA,medical devices,Women's health
The cost of therapy is not mentioned in the news release. Media reports have said prices will depend on how often the cap is used during chemotherapy, but it’s likely a course of treatment will cost between $1,500 and $3,000. According to DigniCap’s website, the company is working toward getting the treatment covered b...
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3 flu-related deaths reported in Connecticut.
Three people have died of flu-related complications in Connecticut this season, state public health officials said.
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Health, General News, Connecticut, Flu, Public health
The three people who died as of Dec. 7 were all age 65 or older, the state Department of Public Health said Thursday. In addition, 29 people were hospitalized last week with the flu, bringing the total number of people hospitalized with the flu to 120 for this season, the agency reported. The flu is considered to be wi...
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Testing urged for students exposed to tuberculosis case.
County health officials are urging some middle school students and teachers outside of Portland, Oregon to get tested for tuberculosis.
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Health, Washington, Oregon, Vancouver, Tuberculosis, Infectious diseases, Portland
The Clark County Public Health department said it sent letters to those who may have been exposed to a case. The unidentified person at Wy’East Middle School in Vancouver, Washington was recently found to have the infectious disease. Those who were in proximity to the affected person should get screened and evaluated a...
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On home health workers’ low pay and limited benefits, “40% are still on SNAP or Medicaid.”
Forty-two percent of direct care workers, a category composed of personal care aides, home health aides and nursing assistants, received some form of public assistance. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for home health workers is about $24,060 a year. The two programs Biden mentioned by name p...
true
Health Check, Joe Biden,
"In a speech this month, former Vice President Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, offered the third installment of a four-part economic plan being rolled out in advance of the  Democratic National Convention in August. This set of proposals focused on caregivers — whether for children, older ad...
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Number of coronavirus intensive care patients in Italy drops for first time.
Italy reported its lowest daily rise in COVID-19 deaths for nearly two weeks on Saturday and said the number of patients in intensive care had fallen for the first time.
true
Health News
Officials urged the country not to flout strict lockdown measures they said were starting to show results, although new cases rose by 4,805 on Saturday which was slightly higher than recent daily increases. The Civil Protection department reported 681 deaths, bringing the total to 15,632 since the outbreak of the new c...
What's false: However, these guidelines affected all places of worship and providers of religious services, not just churches or Christian organizations. Additionally, there is no penalty from the state for violating the guidelines.
Bethania Palma
snopes
Politics, COVID-19
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"A photograph of a sneaker renders in pink and white or gray and green depending on whether you're ""left-brained"" or ""right brained."
Do the Colors You See in a Photograph Reveal Left or Right Brain Dominance?
false
Fact Checks, Viral Content
On May 3 2019, @CNYcentral shared the following tweet featuring a photograph of a shoe with a claim that the colors in which it appeared to render revealed whether a reader is either “left-brained” or “right-brained”:WHAT COLOR DO YOU SEE? 👀 Apparently, If the right-half of your brain is dominant, you will see a combi...
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In late 2018 or early 2019, a pattern of druggings and abductions took place in Arizona and Texas whereby human traffickers used breath mints
The warning was posted to Facebook by a single individual who did not cite any source, and its claims were not corroborated by any local, regional or national news reports, statements by law enforcement agencies, or the findings of any criminal investigations.
unproven
Crime, human trafficking, immigration
Personal safety warnings are a frequent subject of viral social media posts, and in recent years human trafficking and sexual assault have increasingly become the focus of widespread fear among internet users in the United States — a phenomenon which we have examined in detail on several occasions. Many such warnings a...
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A reported .04 percent death rate for COVID-19 is inaccurate, and a death rate cannot be calculated by dividing the number of deaths by a country's population size.
‘You do NOT DIVIDE the deaths into the total population. EVER! NEVER!’
mixture
Fact Checks, Viral Content
A popular Facebook post in August 2020 was not alone in taking issue with one estimate concerning the COVID-19 virus’ mortality rate, but might also mislead readers looking for an easy answer.The post, first published on August 20, 2020 and shared more than 14,000 times since, calls reports that the virus has a 0.04 pe...
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For Teens, The Depression Test
"This story grapples with a complex issue – screening and treatment of major depressive disorder in adolescents. The case study is useful in stimulating reader interest but ends up muddying the waters – focusing on the specifics of this individual’s treatment, the notion of parental informed consent for screening, and ...
false
"There was no indicating of treatment costs or whether it was commonly covered by insurance. The story did not provide any information about the success rates associated with any of the treatments discussed. A number needed to screen should be available. Is it 100 that need to be screened to achieve one additional depr...
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California residents support soda tax to fight obesity, health study shows.
Fighting obesity by taxing sugary drinks and restricting junk food advertisements aimed at children has support from a wide majority of residents surveyed in a Southern California public health study released on Thursday.
true
Health News
The findings from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health come as friction mounts between the beverage industry and health advocates over the best way to fight obesity and diabetes, tied by studies to over-consumption of soda, sweets and junk food. “There have been a lot of arguments against this sort of pol...
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“It’s actually the safest time to fly.”
Older Americans and those with chronic conditions are advised to reconsider all travel plans to avoid COVID-19. The State Department is advising all citizens to reconsider travel abroad. China and Iran have been issued Level 4 travel advisories because of the virus. If you do have to travel via airplane, you’re unlikel...
false
Public Health, PunditFact, Coronavirus, Ainsley Earhardt,
"Since the outbreak of COVID-19, airline stocks have plummeted. Companies like Delta, American and United have cut or reduced flights. Photos show empty airport terminals around the world. On March 13, Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt took those signs to mean that now is a great time to take a trip. ""It’s actual...
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"In response to a ""no one should live in a closet"" tattoo tweet, JK Rowling responded, ""Yes they should."
Did JK Rowling Respond to ‘No One Should Live in a Closet’ Tattoo with ‘Yes They Should’?
false
Disinformation, Fact Checks
"On January 25 2020, Twitter user @iknownaama tweeted the following image, a purported screenshot of JK Rowling reacting to a pro-LGBT tattoo (“no one should live in a closet”) by saying “yes they should”:so did the simulation glitch or does JK Rowling genuinely never think twice about what comes out of her mouth pic.t...
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Hobby Lobby provided this (birth control) coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit.
"On CNN, Kohn said, ""Hobby Lobby provided this coverage before they decided to drop it to file suit."" The Christian-owned company did previously offer insurance plans that included coverage of a few contraceptives at issue in the case, namely morning-after pills, but reports suggest owners weren't aware they offered ...
true
Health Care, Supreme Court, PunditFact, Sally Kohn,
"Hobby Lobby’s Supreme Court victory over the federal government’s contraception rule set off a fast-breaking wave of punditry on national TV. CNN brought in liberal pundit and contributor Sally Kohn, who panned the court’s 5-4 decision as disastrous and Hobby Lobby’s intentions as disingenuous. ""Hobby Lobby provided ...
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Lincoln council adds e-cigarettes to ban on indoor smoking.
The Lincoln City Council has voted to ban vaping in public spaces and work sites, adding e-cigarettes to the city ban on indoor smoking of tobacco products.
true
Lincoln, Health, General News, Nebraska, Smoking, Vaping
The council voted 7-0 for the ordinance Monday, which takes effect in two weeks. The council rejected an attempt to delay to delay implementation so vape shops could seek exemptions. “This is a small change,” City Attorney Jeff Kirkpatrick said at the meeting. “It’s not putting them (vape shops) out of business.” Sarah...
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Denver, Los Angeles airport measles cases connected.
U.S. health officials have confirmed that three children recently hospitalized with measles in Colorado traveled from New Zealand to Los Angeles International Airport before arriving in Denver.
true
Colorado, Health, Measles, General News, Denver, Travel, U.S. News
The Denver Post reported Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued warnings at airports in Denver and Los Angeles involving the same airline passengers. Travelers who passed through Denver International Airport or Los Angeles International Airport on Dec. 11 are at risk for measles after th...
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A meme accurately compares police training and police killings in the United States and three Nordic countries.
We counted the total number of police killings in each country between 2002 and 2017 (using Fatal Encounters’ data for the U.S.), then adjusted for each country’s average population over the course of that 16-year period. That method equated to 71 police killings per million people in the U.S., over that time period; 3...
mixture
Politics, police shootings
The use of deadly force by police officers is the subject of long-standing concern in the United States, and the internet is often the venue for debates about the causes of fatal encounters between law enforcement agents and members of the public. In September 2018, a meme shared on Facebook pointed the finger at one c...
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New eye test detects earliest signs of glaucoma
This safety trial to determine early signs that may lead to glaucoma was carried out on a small number of patients who already had glaucoma and a control group of healthy people. The trial found the test safe in this small group of volunteers but is described in the release with much more enthusiastic language than is ...
false
eye test,glaucoma,Wellcome Trust
There is no discussion of the costs of the test and the potential costs or cost savings of identifying patients earlier than they otherwise would be identified. The news release claims that “our developments mean we could diagnose patients 10 years earlier than was previously possible” but what does that mean in terms ...
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Donald Trump's jet private carried a critically ill 3-year-old Jewish boy from California to New York for medical treatment.
"""The problem was that the commercial airlines refused to fly the child."""
true
Politics, donald trump
In mid-August 2015, a number of web sites reproduced a story about business magnate (and 2016 Republican presidential hopeful) Donald Trump’s having responded to the pleas of the parents of a critically ill 3-year-old Jewish boy, using his private jet to ferry the child from Los Angeles to New York for medical treatmen...
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Explainer: Do men fare worse with COVID-19?.
Death and infection tolls from the COVID-19 pandemic spreading around the world point to men being more likely than women to contract the disease and to suffer severe or critical complications if they do.
true
Health News
Here are some insights from research and experts: ARE MEN MORE SUSCEPTIBLE TO INFECTION WITH THE NEW CORONAVIRUS? It looks that way, yes. In Italy, an analysis of more than 127,700 COVID-19 cases found that 52.9% of all infected people were men and 47.1% women. Among Italy’s first 14,860 deaths, almost 68% were men. A...
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Working out in the early hours.
Night owls, insomniacs, shift workers and other denizens of the dark are finding less need to fit their workout time into the nine-to-five world.
true
Health News
Performance specialist David Delgado, 27, demonstrates a rope exercise in the company gym which is open 24 hours a day at the Google campus near Venice Beach, in Los Angeles, California January 13, 2012. The 100,000 square-foot campus was designed by architect Frank Gehry, and includes an entrance through an iconic pai...
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The modern image of Santa Claus was created by the Coca-Cola Company.
The image of Santa Claus as a jolly large man in a red-and-white suit was the standard long before Coca-Cola co-opted it for their advertising.
false
Holidays, christmas, coca-cola, santa claus
Among the pantheon of characters commonly associated with the Christmas season (both the religious holiday and the secular wintertime celebrations), the beloved persona of Santa Claus is somewhat distinctive in that his appearance is neither one that has been solidified through centuries of religious tradition nor one ...
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Giving your dog ice or ice water on a hot day is likely to cause your pet to die from bloating and spasms.
Giving your dog ice or ice water on a hot day is not likely to cause your pet to die from bloating and spasms.
false
Critter Country, Crusader Habit
Humans often treat their canine companions as if they were fellow human beings, and when one sees a dog panting or displaying other signs of being overheated on a warm day, a natural inclination is to provide the animal with something we people find cool and refreshing, such as ice-cold water or pieces of ice (or both)...
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Defying stigma, survivors join the Ebola fight in West Africa.
High school teacher Fanta Oulen Camara spent two weeks in March fighting for her life against the deadly Ebola virus but her darkest days came after she was cured of the disease and returned to her home in Guinea.
true
Health News
“Most of my friends stopped visiting. They didn’t speak to me. They avoided me,” the 24-year-old said. “I wasn’t allowed to teach anymore.” The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Guinea and neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone. But thousands more have survived, ostraci...
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A dying child was made an honorary fireman by the Phoenix Fire Department.
Was a dying child made an honorary fireman in Phoenix?
true
Viral Phenomena
Though the story circulated in email identifies the dying child as “Billy” instead of by his actual name, this Internet tale is a relatively truthful, if overwritten, account. It’s also (with the exception of the child’s name) lifted word-for-word from the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book. Example: The 26-year-...
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Exercise reduces fat in livers of diabetics: study.
Regular moderate exercise helps people with diabetes to reduce fat in their livers, in turn potentially preventing liver failure and heart disease, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
true
Health News
People with type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease and one closely tied to obesity, often have elevated liver fat levels and are at high risk for a condition called nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Diabetics who did a six-month program of cardiovascular exercise and weight lifting three times a week ...
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Striking' Results from Early Zika Vaccine Trial
This is a story about several vaccines in development for the mosquito-transmitted Zika virus. An unfortunate headline notes “striking” results from “early Zika vaccine trial,” suggesting a human clinical trial of this particular vaccine had already begun, when in fact the reference is to a pre-clinical trial in monkey...
mixture
Zika virus
Putting a cost estimate on experimental vaccines would be difficult to do, so we’ll rate this N/A. However, there is an opportunity in any story about Zika interventions to address the overall costs and financial needs. Congress, for example, has been in the news for months over its failure to earmark funds for Zika co...
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GSK recalls popular heartburn drug Zantac globally after cancer scare.
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) on Tuesday said it is recalling the popular heartburn medicine Zantac in all markets as a “precaution”, days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found “unacceptable” levels of probable cancer-causing impurity in the drug.
true
Health News
Zantac, also sold generically as ranitidine, is the latest drug in which cancer-causing impurities have been found. Regulators have been recalling some blood pressure and heart failure medicines since last year. Britain's medicines watchdog said GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was recalling four prescription-only Zantac medicine...
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There are nearly 500,000 registered sex offenders across the country and at any one time about 100,000 are unaccounted for.
Palumbo says there are 500,000 registered sex offenders in U.S. and 100,000 are unaccounted for
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Rhode Island, Children, Crime, Peter Palumbo,
"For several years, state Rep. Peter G. Palumbo has worked to revise the way Rhode Island registers and monitors convicted sex offenders. This year he introduced legislation to consolidate the state’s sex offender registry under the supervision of the state police and revamp it to comply with federal guidelines. A Gene...
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The current city mayor (Kasim Reed) has been virtually absent in terms of regional cooperation the last eight years.
Eaves said Reed has been virtually absent from regional cooperation over his eight years in office. This seems to be rooted in Reed’s attitude toward a mayors’ initiative led by Eaves. There is also some evidence that Reed failed to faithfully attend meetings of Atlanta’s Regional Commission. However, in terms of promo...
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Georgia, City Government, John Eaves,
"At a recent candidate forum in Atlanta’s mayoral race, John Eaves touted his credentials as a force for broad economic development. The former Fulton County chairman said he understands what the job requires. ""I’ve been there, done that,"" Eaves said. ""The current city mayor has been virtually absent in terms of reg...
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IU researchers find magnesium intake may be beneficial in preventing pancreatic cancer
This news release from Indiana University summarizes findings from a large database of health data gathered through a public survey of vitamin and supplement use — the VITamins and Lifestyle study. The aim of the study is to help ascertain whether supplements have any impact on reducing cancer risk. This news release f...
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Academic medical center news release,Cancer
No cost information is provided but there are cost implications to following the recommendations. The release concludes that everyone “should strive to get the daily recommendations of magnesium through diet” and “adding a magnesium supplement to their diet may prove beneficial in preventing this disease.” There’s very...
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Global obesity rising faster in rural areas than cities, study finds.
Global rates of obesity among people who live in the countryside are rising faster than those among city dwellers, in part due to greater access in urban areas to healthier foods and places to exercise, researchers said on Wednesday.
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Health News
In a study of 33 years of trends in body mass index (BMI) across 200 countries and territories, the scientists found that people worldwide are getting heavier - with average weight rising by 5 to 6 kg (11 to 13 pounds) over the period of the study - and that most of the rise is due to gains in BMI in rural areas. “The ...
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A U.S. surgeon who exposed “Clinton Foundation corruption in Haiti” was found dead in his home under suspicious circumstances.
By this standard — and this does appear to be the standard Your News Wire is working with — anyone who dies an unexpected death who also held a negative view of any aspect of Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State would implicate the Clintons as a suspect in their death. This is not a reasonable standard, and t...
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Junk News, bill clinton, clinton body bags, clinton body count
On 12 December 2017, frequent purveyor of misinformation Your News Wire published a paranoid, gratuitous account of a well-known surgeon’s suicide, apparently geared to play into two widespread anti-Clinton conspiracy theories: that the Clinton family has killed (and continues to kill) their political and personal enem...
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Biosynthetic Corneas Show Promise in Transplants
This story establishes the small scope of the story up high. It brings in one outside voice and is more cautious than the other two stories in describing the number of people affected by corneal conditions. It also is the only story to use a dollar figure when discussing the costs and to put an actual number to the deg...
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"This is the only story of the three reviewed to discuss costs. As for cost, Griffith said the biosynthetic corneas ""in theory"" should be cheaper than donated corneas. Griffith said a German study recently found that donated corneas cost about $2,500. The benefits are quantified about as well as in the other two stor...
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UK government launches plan to curb air pollution.
The British government announced on Tuesday it was launching a new plan which aims to reduce air pollution and its costs on society by 1 billion pounds ($1.4 billion) a year by 2020.
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Environment
The new plan comes just days after the European Commission said it would take Britain and five other European Union member states to the EU Court of Justice for failing to respect air quality limits. Under the EU’s Air Quality Directive, member states were supposed to comply with nitrogen dioxide emission limits in 201...
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Abbreviated breast MRI may be additional screening option for dense breasts
This news release describes preliminary results of a study in 195 women with dense breast tissue subsequently having cancers detected from an abbreviated breast MRI after screening negative with a mammogram. The release states that this type of screening has a much higher rate of cancer detection than mammography or 3D...
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breast MRI,cancer screening,dense breasts,University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
There was no discussion of costs of the abbreviated breast MRI and it was unclear if this type of procedure is commonly covered by insurance for asymptomatic women. The release also refers to women who “…request additional screening after a negative mammogram….”  Requesting additional costly screening adds to overall h...
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New Test for Brain Injury on Horizon
There’s a lot of optimism in this story for a study that hasn’t even been funded yet. Read the full point-by-point review below. While one could piece together the information in this article to see a picture of preliminary research, it might not be clear to a reader that there is no evidence yet for the use of this te...
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"Not applicable in this case because we understand that It’s too early to discuss costs. There is no specific test mentioned, nor are we told which biomarkers would be included in the pivotal study of that test. Once a test has been created, costs will be relevant (and that’s a point the story could have made.) If the ...
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Study finds mammograms offer modest benefit
The strengths of this story include a good overview of the study design that helps readers understand how the new information contributes to our understanding of the effects of mammography. It is also one of the few stories to list the funders of the study. On the other hand, it failed to mention any of the harms of sc...
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The story does not mention the costs of screening or follow-up testing or treatment – and those costs can be significant to the individual and are significant, collectively, to society. This story features an accurate description of what the researchers reported: that mammography offers modest benefits that appear to b...
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Texas is about to legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational use.
What's true: Texas has tentatively legalized the use of marijuana for the treatment of a form of epilepsy. What's false: Texas has not announced plans to legalize marijuana for general medicinal and recreational use.
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Media Matters, marijuana, Not Necessarily The News
In September 2014, the NewsBuzzDaily web site published an article reporting that Texas was about to follow in the footsteps of the states of Colorado and Washington and legalize marijuana for medicinal and recreational use: On September 29, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry will be signing a new bill into law, legalizi...
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UK online carer-patient matchmaker HomeTouch expands nationwide.
A British online service that matches elderly and disabled patients with home carers is expanding nationwide by adding another 25,000 care professionals to its database, founder Jamie Wilson said on Monday.
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Health News
The expansion comes as British government, at both the national and local level, seeks to increase the provision of home care to take the pressure off hospitals run by the state-funded National Health Service in looking after an ageing population. Finance minister Philip Hammond will announce 1.3 billion pounds ($1.6 b...
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MTV launches ‘Save Our Moms’ campaign to combat mortality.
MTV is launching a campaign aimed at stemming the rise of maternal mortality in the U.S.
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Health, Lena Waithe, Minhal Baig, North America
Thursday’s launch of “Save Our Moms” comes as Mother’s Day approaches and will feature original content and educational resources across all MTV platforms. The centerpiece will feature a video produced by actress Lena Waithe’s Protest Art Productions and directed by “HALA” filmmaker Minhal Baig. Waithe says in a statem...
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Bernie Sanders was forced to endorse Hillary Clinton under DNC rules, but can go on to win a contested convention like FDR (who also endorsed his opponent before winning).
What's true: Bernie Sanders endorsed Hillary Clinton on 12 July 2016, but did not suspend his campaign. What's false: FDR had a majority of delegates heading into the 1932 convention, just not enough to secure the nomination without a fight. Roosevelt's endorsement of a rival candidate is undocumented.
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Politics Ballot Box, 1932, bernie sanders, DNC
On 12 July 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders formally endorsed rival Hillary Clinton at a New Hampshire event, causing consternation among supporters who were confident he still planned to take his candidacy for the nomination to the convention in Philadelphia later that month. A number of interlin...
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Deciphering the Results of a Prostate Test
"This article describes the history and some of the current dilemmas of PSA screening for prostate cancer. Although it does a nice job of discussing some of the current controversies in PSA testing for prostate cancer, it does not discuss the real controversy of PSA testing, that is, there is no convincing evidence tha...
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"No costs are mentioned. The article doesn't provide any evidence of the potential benefits of PSA screening. Specific harms of screening and its downstream consequences are not mentioned. For instance, the article only states prostate cancer surgery is debilitating, without stating why or how and without recognizing t...
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Probe sought in Trump administration’s ouster of scientist.
Calls mounted Thursday for an investigation into the ouster of a senior government scientist who says he’s being punished for opposing widespread use of an unproven drug President Donald Trump touted as a remedy for COVID-19.
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AP Top News, Frank Pallone, Malaria, Health, General News, Politics, Pandemics, Virus Outbreak, Donald Trump
Rick Bright, former director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, says he was summarily removed from his job earlier this week and reassigned to a lesser role because he resisted political pressure to allow widespread use of hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug favored by Trump. On Thursday, Hou...
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On July 7 2020, new cases of coronavirus numbered 298 in Germany, 10 in Denmark, 11 in Norway, 57 in Sweden, and 55,442 in the United States.
A tweet from political scientist Brian Klaas correctly transposed COVID-19 figures for four of the five countries as they appeared on Worldometers.info — the United States, Germany, Denmark, and Norway. The figures for Sweden were inaccurately transcribed as 57, versus the site’s claim of 295. However, the veracity of ...
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Fact Checks, Viral Content
On July 8 2020, Twitter user Brian Klass shared the following post in response to President Trump’s tweets about reopening American schools — purportedly demonstrating the number of new cases on July 7 2020 in the United States and four European nations:New cases, yesterday:Germany: 298Denmark: 10Norway: 11Sweden: 57Un...
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A photograph shows a railroad tank car identified as carrying 'COVID-19.'
Clearly, ‘COVID-19’ is not a designation that conforms to any legitimate reporting mark, nor to any other standard form of marking or identification one would expect to find on a railroad tank car:
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Fauxtography, COVID-19
The COVID-19 coronavirus disease pandemic of early 2020 — as all such outbreaks do — generated conspiracy theories that the virus was man-made, and even possibly deliberately released onto a defenseless population. The following examples provide just a small sampling of theories that followed in the wake of the disease...
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UK cancels order for simple ventilators, needs more complex ones: source.
Britain has cancelled an order for thousands of units of a simple model of ventilator developed by industrial companies to treat COVID-19 because more sophisticated devices are now needed, a source involved in the project said on Sunday.
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Health News
The government confirmed it no longer required that particular model, known as BlueSky. “We are no longer supporting the production of the BlueSky device following a reassessment of the product’s viability in light of the ever developing picture around what is needed to most effectively treat COVID-19,” said a spokesma...
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" During the 1987 Iran-Contra hearings, Oliver North warned Congress that Osama bin Laden was ""the most evil person alive"" and that ""an assassin team [should] be formed to eliminate him and his men from the face of the earth."
Did Oliver North warn Congress about Osama bin Laden during the Iran-Contra hearings?
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September 11th, 9/11, 9/11 attacks, ASP Article
For most of us who watched the televised Joint Hearings Before the Senate Select Committee on Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Nicaraguan Opposition and the House Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran (better known as the “Iran-Contra hearings,” held by Congress to determine wheth...
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Egyptian masseur plays with fire to ease muscle pain.
An Egyptian masseur plays with fire to relieve his clients’ muscle pain at his spa in the Nile Delta governorate of Gharbeya.
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Health News
Abdel Rehim Saeid, 35, applies the ancient Pharaonic technique, known as the “fiery towel” by starting with a standard massage, using oil and camomile, to stimulate blood circulation and alleviate some of the pain in affected areas. Then comes the heat. Saeid places several layers of towels and other isolating material...
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Drug may work in melanoma tumors in brain
This story offers tantalizing hints of potential benefits of an experimental drug for melanoma, ipilimumab, but without any substance that would allow readers to judge the merits of the claims. It relies on readers to know that medical meeting presentations do not go through the sort of peer review required by leading ...
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Although the cost of this experimental therapy may not be known, it would have been useful to point out whether this drug is similar to other drugs that carry extremely high price tags (some are thousands of dollars per dose) or might be something that might be offered at a lower cost. These trials did not compare the ...
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Replacing Recalled Heart Devices a Risk
This article does an excellent job of providing both the details and the broader context for new findings about the risk of replacing implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) that are the subject of safety advisories or recalls. By explaining what the devices do, what can go wrong if they malfunction, and what ma...
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The article notes that surgery to replace devices that are the subject of safety advisories can cost thousands of dollars. The article includes the numbers of patients who had serious complications after replacement surgery, as well as how many had minor problems. Data are also included that would help readers assess h...
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In run-down Caracas institute, Venezuela's coronavirus testing falters.
As coronavirus explodes across Latin America, Venezuela’s leaders have taken to the airwaves to laud the nation’s efforts to control the spread.
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Health News
Since it confirmed its first case on March 13, the socialist government says it has performed almost 270,000 tests and is carrying out 25,000 more a day. Caracas claims that robust testing, along with tough lockdown measures, have given Venezuela one of the lowest incidences of coronavirus in the world - just 204 repor...
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More than 7,000 Americans lost their lives to climate change-fueled events last year.
"Beyer wrote, ""More than 7,000 Americans lost their lives to climate change-fueled events last year."" The congressman lacks documentation and admits he got his facts wrong. That makes our work easy:"
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Environment, Climate Change, Virginia, Don Beyer,
"After a long career as a car dealer, lieutenant governor and ambassador, Democrat Don Beyer was elected to the U.S. of House Representatives last year with a focus on protecting the planet against climate change. Beyer, D-8th, reiterated his goal in a March 4 column for the Falls Church News-Press, calling global warm...
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Officials report high number of ticks carrying Lyme disease.
Connecticut officials are warning of unusually high numbers of disease-carrying ticks, especially ones that carry Lyme disease.
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Lyme disease, Connecticut, Health, Ticks
Goudarz Molaei, director of the state Agricultural Experiment Station tick testing program, tells the Hartford Courant about 40 percent of the 2,600 ticks tested so far are carrying Lyme disease. Molaei said Monday that is a 10 percent increase over results from the past five years. A spokesman for the state Department...
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Photo shows “Dr. Fauci, Melinda Gates and Barack Obama at the Wuhan Lab in 2015.”
This photo shows Barack Obama and Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health in 2014. Melinda Gates is not pictured.
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Facebook Fact-checks, Coronavirus, Viral image,
"Part of a photo showing former President Barack Obama with Anthony Fauci and two women has been furiously circled in black with a description that suggests the men are behind the coronavirus pandemic. ""Dr. Fauci, Melinda Gates and Barack Obama at the Wuhan Lab in 2015…!!!!"" reads the circled text atop the image in a...
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Studying Acupuncture, One Needle Prick at a Time
Let’s be clear:  this is a difficult topic. But this article provided an overly optimistic view of acupuncture’s therapeutic effects by selectively reporting the results of four clinical trials. These included two sham-controlled trials on the treatment of chronic knee pain and one sham-controlled trial on the manageme...
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"The article didn’t address costs or reimbursement issues. If acupuncture could be shown to be efficacious for common health conditions, its relatively low cost could be viewed as a major selling point in a world of spiraling treatment expenditures. Mixed bag. On the knee arthritis study, the story didn’t explain what ...
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Mental Activity Seen in a Brain Gravely Injured
This story reports on the brain activity of a single patient in a vegetative state. That the patient had more brain activity than anticipated has raised many questions about the quality of our existing diagnostic abilities and the meaning of conciousness. This research study is relevant for two separate but important r...
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The story does not mention the costs of the imaging test. Until it has been more systematically evaluated, there is no way to quantify the benefits of the imaging technique. The story does not mention harms of the imaging technique, either from the risks of the technique itself or from the implications of false positiv...
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Cocktails are a wholly American invention, popularized by Prohibition.
I actually know where “cocktail” came from, pretty solidly. It’s in the book. Ginger was used in the horse trade to make a horse stick its tail up. They’d put it in its ass. If you had an old horse you were trying to sell, you would put some ginger up its butt, and it would cock its tail up and be frisky. That was know...
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Business, American History, cocktail, drinks
The Prohibition era lasted little more than a decade — from 1920 to 1933 — but its effects stretched far beyond those years. Speakeasies and saloons are still lionized by historical fetishists, and slang from that era is still in American English today. One popular story about Prohibition is that the cocktail (using bo...
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Study: Safe to transplant hepatitis C-infected hearts, lungs.
Doctors can safely transplant hepatitis C-infected lungs and hearts into people desperate for a new organ, say researchers who may have found a way to protect those patients from getting the risky virus.
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Health, Infectious diseases, Hepatitis, North America
The experiment, reported Wednesday, is the latest attempt to put a dent in the nation’s long transplant waiting list by using organs that otherwise would be wasted, often ones from victims of the opioid epidemic. The new twist: Instead of trying to cure hepatitis C after it took hold in transplant recipients, researche...
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Illinois “got into fiscal problems because of a Republican governor who was governor there” before Gov. J.B. Pritzker.
Pelosi is referring to former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, who served as the state's chief executive for one term. Rauner and the Democrats who control the Illinois General Assembly reached an impasse over how to run the state that left Illinois without a spending plan for two years. But Rauner wasn't solely responsib...
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State Budget, Illinois, Nancy Pelosi,
"President Donald Trump frequently cites Illinois’ fiscal mismanagement as a reason for potentially withholding federal assistance amid the national crisis caused by the outbreak of COVID-19. In a May 4 interview with CNN, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shot back with her own assessment of Illinois’ financial straits. ""Lo...
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Banana Boat brand sunscreen is causing severe burns, particularly on toddlers and young children.
We encourage people who have concerns about a type of burn to visit a dermatologist who can determine the differences between a chemical burn, a sun burn, or a reaction to sunscreen itself.
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Medical, banana boat, children's health, health
In May 2017, Rebecca Cannon, a Canadian woman, published a series of posts on Facebook, describing the second-degree chemical burns her 14-month-old daughter Kyla purportedly suffered after Cannon sprayed her with Banana Boat Kids SPF-50 sunscreen. Photos accompanying the posts appear to show significant burns, blister...
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"Political activists are ""being paid"" to protest members of Congress."
"Gohmert said political activists are ""being paid"" to protest members of Congress. His office didn’t provide any evidence of this, and neither did several other Republican officials we asked. It’s possible some protesters somewhere may be paid, but there’s zero evidence of a wide-ranging conspiracy to bring in paid a...
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National, Congress, Louie Gohmert,
"Several Republican lawmakers have accused protesters at recent town hall-style meetings of being the tools of deep-pocketed benefactors pushing a liberal agenda. They’re being paid to demonstrate, some GOP officials say, with some activists being shipped in from out of state to Republican-led congressional districts t...
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Passion for vodka kills Russian men in their thousands.
A quarter of all Russian men die before they reach their mid-fifties and their passion for alcohol - particularly vodka - is largely to blame, according to research published on Friday.
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Health News
A study of more than 150,000 people found extraordinarily high premature death rates among male Russians, some of whom reported drinking three or more bottles a week of the potent clear spirit. Perhaps unsurprisingly, deaths among heavy drinkers were mainly due to alcohol poisoning, accidents, violence and suicide, as ...
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Full marriage equality [would provide same-sex couples] with about 1,700 rights.
Same-sex marriage advocate says full marriage equality offers 1,700 rights
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Rhode Island, Civil Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Marriage, Bill Fischer,
"In the debate over same-sex marriage, proponents have argued that proposals to create civil unions and other arrangements to mimic marriage are unacceptable. They contend that such measures fail to provide for the same rights and benefits received by couples in traditional marriage. One such proposal, which would allo...
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KETAMINE SHOWS PROMISE AS TREATMENT FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH DEPRESSION
This story reported on a preliminary study looking at whether the drug ketamine might be a potential treatment for adolescent depression. The story refrained from disease-mongering and quantified the scope of the observed benefits. However, the headline and lead were misleading in stating that teens who took the drug h...
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adolescents,depression,ketamine
There was no mention of the costs of ketamine infusions, which can be expensive. A quick internet search yields costs of between $400 to $800 per infusion. Therefore, the six infusions used in this study would cost  a family $2,400 to $4,800. And since ketamine is not FDA-approved for treating depression, insurance com...
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Europeans are world's heaviest drinkers: WHO report.
People in Europe drink more alcohol than in any other part of the world, downing the equivalent of 12.5 litres of pure alcohol a year or almost three glasses of wine a day, according to report by the World Health Organisation and the European Commission.
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Health News
A barmaid pours a pint of beer at The Builders Arms pub in east London in this February 2, 2012 file photograph. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh But while the title of world’s heaviest drinkers goes to the European Union as whole, where consumption is almost double the world average, there are also wide variations in drinking leve...
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A cuckolded husband presented his wife with the head of her lover.
Stephan Schap was courtmartialed for the murder of Gregory Glover in April 1994. He was found guilty and given a mandatory life sentence.
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Horrors, Gruesome Discoveries
Our grisly tale begins with this newspaper clipping from December 1993: FULDA, Germany, Dec 8 (AFP) – An American soldier cut off the head of his pregnant wife’s lover and put it on her bedside table in the hospital here where she was about to give birth, a spokesman at the German public prosecutor’s office said on We...
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Eleven dead, 300 treated after drinking coconut wine in Philippines.
At least 11 people have been killed and more than 300 treated in hospital after drinking coconut wine in the Philippines, including some who were celebrating at a Christmas party, health and local authorities said on Monday.
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Health News
The poisoning occurred in Laguna and Quezon, two provinces south of Manila, and all had consumed lambanog, a drink popular in provinces and consumed widely during holidays and celebrations. Many were admitted to hospitals on the urging of mayor Vener Munoz in Rizal, Laguna, where the deaths occurred between Thursday an...
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Farmers use tech to squeeze every drop from Colorado River.
A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water they would give the crops the next day.
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Colorado River, AP Top News, Colorado, Technology, Greeley, Business, Science, U.S. News, Agriculture, General News
After a brief, snaking flight above the field, the drone landed and the researchers removed a handful of memory cards. Back at their computers, they analyzed the images for signs the corn was stressed from a lack of water. This U.S. Department of Agriculture station outside Greeley and other sites across the Southwest ...
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"Nancy Gavin penned a real-life story of a ""man who hated Christmas"" and the significance of a ""little white envelope"" for their family."
‘The Little White Envelope for the Man Who Hated Christmas’ Posts
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Fact Checks, Viral Content
In November 2019, a nearly year-old “Maui 24/7” post titled “THE LITTLE WHITE ENVELOPE” (alternately: “the Man Who Hated Christmas”) circulated virally on social media:Text attached to an image told a heartstrings-tugging tale of the meaning of Christmas, a bit like a Hallmark Movie Channel effort in Facebook post form...
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I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history.
"Dewhurst said: ""I have cut taxes 63 times, including a 2006 property tax reduction that ranks as the largest in state history."" This statement paints an incomplete picture. About 63 (or 54) measures giving someone a tax break passed into law on Dewhurst’s watch, but it's not like Texans are less tapped by such taxes...
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Candidate Biography, Education, Small Business, Taxes, Texas, David Dewhurst,
"David Dewhurst, seeking his fourth term as lieutenant governor of Texas, consistently talks up the state’s economy while simultaneously noting tax cuts. The Houston Republican, who presides over the Texas Senate, touted 54 tax cuts in a recent video ad. A bit earlier, in an Oct. 1, 2013, post on his campaign website, ...
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Plasma from newly recovered patients from Covid -19 can treat others infected by Covid-19.
This is being used as a treatment in some countries, but clinical trials have not yet proved that this is effective.
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online
Doctors in India have been successful in treating coronavirus with a combination of drugs (Lopinavir, Retonovir, Oseltamivir along with Chlorphenamine) and are going to suggest the same medicine globally. India’s ministry of health has advised that the anti-HIV drugs, Lopinavir and Retonovir, are used in some groups of...
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Glaxo antibody drug combats rare blood disorder.
An experimental antibody drug from GlaxoSmithKline Plc has proved effective in tests for treating a rare disorder known as hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES), researchers said on Sunday.
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Health News
A staff member works at the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) laboratory works in Singapore March 21, 2007. REUTERS/Nicky Loh A Phase III study found significantly more patients who were given Bosatria, also known as mepolizumab, were able to maintain control of their disease with a reduced dose of a corticosteroid, compared t...
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President Donald Trump “put a hold on ALL EVICTIONS through December.”
An eviction moratorium for properties linked to federal housing financing was included in the CARES Act, a major coronavirus relief bill. The moratorium expired in late July. Trump’s executive order doesn’t extend the moratorium. Instead, it takes a softer approach by telling executive branch officials to think about p...
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Housing, Coronavirus, Facebook posts,
"Some Facebook users jumped the gun on a series of executive actions signed by President Donald Trump after bipartisan negotiations on a new coronavirus relief bill ground to a halt. One of the four orders Trump signed on Aug. 8 addressed eviction policy, an urgent matter given the coronavirus pandemic, which has promp...