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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... | 0 | 4 |
"A malaria drug that could potentially be used to treat COVID-19 has become the latest political touchpoint of the coronavirus pandemic. A meme published on Facebook by Turning Point USA, a conservative group that targets high school and college students, claims Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak bucked doctors’ recommendations... | 0 | 4 |
Q: Is NASA “spraying Americans with lithium and other chemicals”? A: No. The space agency uses such materials, which are also used in fireworks, in the upper atmosphere – way above where planes fly. Experts say it’s “extremely unlikely” even “a minute amount” would reach Earth’s surface. A persisting conspiracy theory ... | 0 | 4 |
"Not applicable. The cost of green tea is not in question. None. If you’re going to play the rat research game, you should at least tell us the scope of the ""benefit"" seen in rats. How many tested? How many successes? It feels almost ridiculous to have to comment on whether the story discussed harms seen in the rats ... | 0 | 4 |
"In mid-July 2020 a link circulated on social media, appearing to be an article reporting that Ivanka [PERSON] had accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of trying to make her father, United States [OFFICIAL], “look incompetent”:Ivanka Says Fauci ""Trying To Make My Father ""Look"" Incompetent"" REESUS PATRIOT™💙 () July 15, 2020Cl... | 0 | 4 |
A fake news website is behind the false report that hundreds died after eating Patti Labelle brand sweet potato pie. The fake news website Report Quickly published a story on November 14, 2015, that said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had found that Patti Labelle pie that was tainted with “tetrodotoxin,... | 0 | 4 |
The story included an estimate for the cost of an angioplasty. Although mentioning that it may take many office visits to get medical therapy right, the story should have included an estimated cost for this as well. The story reported on the percent of individuals in the two treatment groups who reported relief of ches... | 1 | 4 |
"With a measles outbreak sprouting in 14 states, and Georgia reporting its first case in almost three years, vaccine opponents are reviving claims about the dangers of vaccines against the disease in newsfeeds across the country. An alert reader was skeptical of one Facebook post, reviving a 2012 story that purports to... | 0 | 4 |
In April 2011, online rumors surfaced to the effect that billionaire real estate mogul [PERSON] (who was already being spoken of as a potential presidential contender) might be suffering from a genetic disorder known as Klinefelter syndrome. Klinefelter syndrome, also known as XXY, is caused by a redundant X chromosome... | 0 | 4 |
Chlamydia cases have been rising since 2010, increasing from 432 cases in Deschutes County a decade ago to 675 last year, The Bulletin newspaper in Bend reported . The number of cases in Crook County has nearly doubled and the number in Jefferson is up 52 percent. Syphilis cases are also on the rise, and gonorrhea diag... | 1 | 4 |
"The costs associated with liver transplantation were not provided beyond the sense that they were out of reach for a family of modest means without medical insurance. The costs associated with the recommendation that pediatricians include liver testing as a routine part of patient care was also not discussed. Lastly –... | 0 | 4 |
"Public health officials say one of the best ways to avoid catching the coronavirus is to wash your hands with soap and water or, when that’s not an option, rub them with hand sanitizer. But some Facebook users are sharing posts saying hand sanitizer can be dangerous. ""This lady here applied sanitizer to her hands/for... | 0 | 4 |
"On the presidential primary campaign trail in Iowa, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., brought out a favorite talking point: ways the president can bring down drug prices without waiting for [INSTITUTION]. It’s not the first time Warren and other candidates have referenced this alleged power. In this case, she pointed to... | 1 | 4 |
"[PERSON] tripled down on his baseless claim that the U.S. election system is rigged against him, capping a weekend of lashing out at the media for publishing ""fabricated"" allegations of sexual assault and at Alec Baldwin for impersonating [PERSON] on Saturday Night Live. House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans... | 0 | 4 |
"The General Assembly on April 3 narrowly approved an amendment by Gov. Bob McDonnell that will ban insurers participating in an upcoming federal health care exchange in Virginia from offering policies that cover most abortions. The action was disappointing to NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia. The group said, among other thin... | 0 | 4 |
"The [PERSON] administration’s top Medicaid official has been increasingly critical of the entitlement program she has overseen for three years. Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has warned that the federal government and states need to better control spending and improve care ... | 0 | 4 |
“Pets are your loved ones, pets should be your family, pets are not something you keep on a chain in the backyard,” the intensive-care nurse from Somers, Connecticut, said. Lescault, 43, who enrolled Moose in a clinical trial of an experimental drug designed to help his immune system fight his cancer, represents the ty... | 1 | 4 |
Of the new cases, 19 patients were linked to previous cases, and three had no links to old cases, said Taweesin Wisanuyothin, a spokesman for the government’s Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration. One of those infected was in state quarantine, and the cases of seven people who tested positive were being investi... | 1 | 4 |
"Since the novel coronavirus hasn’t been around that long, public health information about the virus and how it behaves is constantly changing. That’s why social media posts that make sweeping medical claims about COVID-19 should be viewed with skepticism. Like this Facebook post, which displays a screenshot of a CNBC ... | 0 | 4 |
"An instagram post claims that weed can kill the novel coronavirus. It isn’t true, bud. The image resembles a breaking news story with a picture of a cannabis bud in the background. Similar to another claim that cocaine kills the coronavirus, this picture was made using a breaking news generator. There is no proof that... | 0 | 4 |
"The coronavirus pandemic has escalated the political battle over efforts to expand voting by mail, with the [INSTITUTION], [INSTITUTION] and local election officials feuding over whether to make it easier to cast ballots from home this year. A June 3 House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on protecting the right to vote... | 0 | 4 |
The article does not mention cost. In knee replacement there is more to cost than the price of the implant and the hospital and surgeon’s fees. After surgery, patients must plan for time away from work, intensive rehabilitation, and perhaps the cost of an inpatient rehab facility or visiting nurse. There is no attempt ... | 0 | 4 |
This news release mentions both a treatment and a screening test. The treatment is ibuprofen, an over-the-counter, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug that is probably widely known to be quite affordable. The screening test is measuring levels of amyloid beta protein 42 (Abeta42) in the saliva. The cost of that test is... | 0 | 4 |
There was no cost estimate because there has not actually been a treatment developed yet that makes use of the approach described in the research. Framing this approach as one that could someday cure not only diabetes, but also heart disease, stroke, and ‘many other ailments’ is troubling. This extrapolation to disease... | 0 | 4 |
Every so often, a seemingly high number of earthquakes strike the Yellowstone National Park region. Whenever this happens, with an inevitability rivaling Old Faithful itself, the Internet takes the opportunity to remind anyone with a clicking finger that Yellowstone sits above a massive reservoir of magma capable of gl... | 0 | 4 |
"Conservative Rush Limbaugh told listeners that liberal Austin has moved toward wiping out local barbecue joints. On his July 28, 2015, program, the commentator read from a web post stating the Austin City Council in April 2015 ""passed a preliminary plan"" restricting smoke from barbecue restaurants. Limbaugh said the... | 0 | 4 |
On March 12 2020, Twitter user tweeted that South Korea had managed to test 200,000 people for novel coronavirus strain COVID-19, while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) only tested 77 people in a week — adding that all 58 Utah Jazz players managed to secure coronavirus tests with little difficulty:S... | 1 | 4 |
The story makes no mention of costs. The average hospital charges for a single-level fusion is about $50,000, exclusive of surgeon fees, rehab costs, and related costs such as time lost from work. The addition of screws or and a “bone growth material” adds thousands more. Not trivial issues. This broadcast falls down i... | 0 | 4 |
The story notes that nitric oxide is expensive; however, it does not give any support or evidence for the quoted expert’s statement that the treatment might be cost-effective in the long run. No details are provided on the numbers of infants who either did or did not develop bronchopulmonary dysplasia or other outcomes... | 0 | 4 |
"U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse recently joined Hasbro executives at their downtown headquarters to push a bill to regulate thousands of chemicals, including hazardous substances that pose a risk to children. From behind a blue podium that was as brightly colored and as plastic as a child’s toy, Whitehouse made this clai... | 0 | 4 |
"One theory ricocheting around social media blames Florida’s large coronavirus outbreak on mistakes in case reporting. The claim was made by internet prankster Joey Saladino, who says he creates content ""to expose the Democrats and MSM,"" or mainstream media. The onetime candidate for a New York City congressional sea... | 0 | 4 |
After reading about the benefits of bees in the Koran, Abulhassan, 30, decided five years ago to raise the insects and use the venom in alternative therapy. He believes bee stings can relieve pain and cure illnesses such as rheumatism. “These are not the only benefits,” said Abulhassan, who has no medical background. “... | 1 | 4 |
"Thanks to a little-known congressional bill, it may soon be impossible to tell whether your Fourth of July burger is all-American Angus or beef imported from the Amazon, according to a Facebook meme. ""The [INSTITUTION] just voted 300-131 to remove ‘country-of-origin labeling’ on chicken, pork, and beef sold in the Un... | 1 | 4 |
On 19 April 2015, the Huzlers web site published an article reporting that the Arizona Beverage Company was using human urine in many of their AriZona Tea products: Upon being unexpectedly inspected a few days ago, FDA inspectors visited five of AriZona’s biggest factories in the United States and what they discovered ... | 0 | 4 |
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... | 0 | 4 |
"There was no mention of cost – and Tykerb is a VERY expensive drug – thousands of dollars each month. There was no quantification of benefit in the story – strange when the entire story is about the drugmaker seeking new approval for the drug. Upon what evidence is that request based? The story says that Tykerb can da... | 0 | 4 |
"State lawmakers have a month before they get back to work in the 2015 legislative session and already the debate over medical marijuana has gotten into the, ahem, weeds. State Rep. Allen Peake, R-Macon serves as co-chair of a joint legislative committee that has studied whether and how to legalize the drug for certain... | 1 | 4 |
In the first sessions of the day, people heard presentations on how activists could work together to push for Medicare for All, a system that would guarantee health care for everyone in the country, including a study on how it to pay the cost. “Only all that we love is on the line,” said Nina Turner, a fellow of the Sa... | 1 | 4 |
About 6,000 rolled pieces were neatly stacked about 10 feet high, covering more than an acre of private land, according to the mayor of Cleona, Pennsylvania. The green blades of artificial grass peeking through the coiled logs offered the first clue. “This is what it looks like when someone gets rid of a dozen turf fie... | 1 | 4 |
The story does not mention projected costs for the new drug. The story could have provided some insight into the costs of available drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes. The likelihood of this new drug in combination with metformin being less exepnsive than available drugs is very low. The story reports the benefit in terms ... | 0 | 4 |
"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 [INSTITUTION], touted 54 tax cuts in a recent video ad. A bit earlier, in an Oct. 1, 2013, post on his campaign we... | 0 | 4 |
"There is no mention in this story of costs, which is a shame. CTs are the preferred diagnostic tool right now and, apparently, are widely used. A switch to MRIs would not only mean the purchasing of a lot of new equipment but also staff training, new protocols and new drugs and dyes to be administered. Are we talking ... | 0 | 4 |
Infection rates of the respiratory disease are beginning to slow in two of the worst-hit countries which have together accounted for more than 20% of over 1.2 million cases in the global pandemic, according to World Health Organization data. Staff for the medical charity said the slight easing in the case-load was allo... | 1 | 4 |
Ottawa said it would spend C$2 billion to help buy supplies amid complaints from some doctors and nurses about shortages of personal protection gear. “The situation is going to get worse before it gets better. That is the unfortunate truth,” Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland told a daily briefing. By 9 a.m. easte... | 1 | 4 |
"Facing questions about the handling of the state's $130 billion investment portfolio, the executive director and chief investment officer of the State Board of Administration tried to reassure Florida Gov. Rick Scott that everything is fine. SBA executive director Ash Williams defended SBA procedures and policies to S... | 0 | 4 |
"Not long after the [INSTITUTION] voted down a bipartisan effort to expand background checks on gun sales, the National Rifle Association released a statement hailing the proposal’s downfall as good news. ""This amendment would have criminalized certain private transfers of firearms between honest citizens, requiring l... | 0 | 4 |
U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced the funding Tuesday from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funding will be split between FMRS Health Systems and Westbrook Health Services. FMRS serves residents in Fayette, Monroe, Raleigh and Summers counties. Westbrook serves Calhoun, Jack... | 1 | 4 |
Autopsies conducted on the birds confirmed that at least two of them died from H5N1 avian influenza, said Riaz Ahmed Khan, the National Zoological Park’s curator. “We decided to close the zoo for a few days as a precautionary measure,” Khan said, adding that the zoo would reopen next week. He said the birds, including ... | 1 | 4 |
The 75-year-old Frenchman is eating normally and spent three hours sitting in a chair in the company of his family on Sunday, the team caring for him at the Georges Pompidou European Hospital in Paris said. “The artificial heart is functioning normally, automatically catering to the body’s needs without any manual adju... | 1 | 4 |
"Judging by her newest television ad, Sharron Angle, the Republican candidate for U.S. [INSTITUTION] from Nevada, is banking on the idea that even Sin City voters have limits on acceptable behavior. In an ad released Oct. 7, 2010, Angle accuses Harry Reid of voting to use taxpayer dollars to pay for Viagra for convicte... | 0 | 4 |
The University of Kansas will have what it says is the smallest four-year medical education site in the country when eight students begin taking classes on Monday on a satellite campus in Salina, Kansas. The move is in response to a shortage of rural doctors in the United States. “By training physicians in a nonmetropo... | 1 | 4 |
On April 24 2019, a Facebook user shared the following status (archived here), claiming that a Snapchat sex trafficking ring was operating in Lawrence, Massachusetts:So there’s a sex trafficking ring going on in Lawrence Mass. If you get a random person who tries adding you on Snapchat this morning and it says “added b... | 0 | 4 |
"Described as ""relatively low-cost in the long run"" in the words of a researcher. But what does that mean? No dollar figures given. No explanation of how ""pain relief"" was measured. No discussion of results in sham device comparison group. No discussion of the limitations of drawing conclusions from a small (34 peo... | 0 | 4 |
PGE and Orsted, the world’s biggest developer of offshore wind, said last month they had started discussions over the sale. “We are hoping to finalize the negotiations - meaning signing the basic terms - by the end of this year,” the chief executive of state-run PGE’s offshore wind subsidiary Monika Morawiecka told Reu... | 1 | 4 |
"During a May 11, 2017 hearing on his bill to create tougher penalties for college students who disrupt public speakers, Wisconsin state Rep. Jesse Kremer, R-Kewaskum, had this exchange with state Rep. Terese Berceau, D-Madison: Berceau: So, my question is, if a geology student says, ""I’m sorry, but the Earth is only ... | 0 | 4 |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials say they will begin taking temperatures and asking about symptoms of passengers at three U.S. airports who traveled from the outbreak city of Wuhan. Officials estimate roughly 5,000 passengers will go through the process in the next couple of weeks at New York City’s... | 1 | 4 |
In December 2017, a 21-year-old British man named Daniel Davey received a six-and-a-half year sentence for having sexually abused a five-year-old boy: A 21-year-old man, who used to live in Bradford on Avon, has been sentenced to six and a half years in jail after admitting to sexually assaulting a young boy. Daniel Da... | 0 | 4 |
All but essential shops must close immediately and people should no longer meet family or friends or risk being fined, Johnson said in a televised address to the nation. Johnson had resisted pressure to impose a full lockdown even as other European countries had done so, but was forced to change tack as projections sho... | 1 | 4 |
"An Austin City Council member made a honk-the-horn statement about passenger assaults as she advocated for voter approval of a proposition that would shrink what the city requires in background checks of drivers who work with ride-hailing services. If approved, the proposal on Austin’s May 7, 2016, ballot would rescin... | 0 | 4 |
Ten melon-headed whales were found stranded alive early in the morning on Sugar Beach in the coastal resort community of Kihei. Hours later, a whale calf believed to belong to the same social group was found dead on the beach about a mile to the north, said David Schofield, the regional marine mammal response coordinat... | 1 | 4 |
"As the country learned about the shooting death of Walter Scott in North Charleston, S.C., a comparison between police in the United States and the United Kingdom began to spread across the Internet. The liberal website Addicting Info put up a graphic under the headline ""U.S. Police killed more people in just one mon... | 0 | 4 |
Reports that a Saudi billionaire purchased Buford, Wyoming, and hired the Bin Laden family’s construction firm to build a “Western Mecca” were drudged up by a fake news website. Real News Right Now published a story in November 2015 under the headline, “Saudi Billionaire Begins Construction of ‘Western Mecca’ in Wyomin... | 0 | 4 |
Western wildfires have grown ever more lethal, a grim reality that’s been driven by more housing developments sprawling into the most fire-prone grasslands and brushy canyons, experts say. Many of the ranchers and farmers who once managed those landscapes are gone, leaving neglected terrain that has grown thick with ve... | 1 | 4 |
In June 2016 several alternative health and conspiracy blogs published posts claiming that a Berkeley doctor had recently “blown the whistle” on chemotherapy as a treatment for cancer, revealing that it doesn’t work 97% of the time and is only recommended due to practitioner greed (i.e., oncologists get kickbacks from ... | 0 | 4 |
"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... | 0 | 4 |
"[PERSON]’s announcement that she would run for president was met with a round of attacks from Republicans on the Sunday shows. Taking up the cause on Fox News Sunday was 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. ""You've seen in polls and in discussions across the country a feeling that [PERSON] is just not tr... | 0 | 4 |
The Oregon Health Authority announced the case of pediatric multi-system inflammatory syndrome Wednesday. The case in Oregon involves a girl who had confirmed COVID-19. She is being treated at Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel in Portland. Officials said the syndrome is similar to Kawasaki disease, which ca... | 1 | 4 |
Coincident with thenm-current news that Italian physician Dr. Sergio Canavero had lined up a volunteer subject for his planned attempt at undertaking the first human head transplant, the News Examiner web site published an article reporting that such a procedure had just taken place at the Charlotte Maxexe Johannesburg... | 0 | 4 |
He Jiankui, who was convicted of practicing medicine without a license, was also fined 3 million yuan ($430,000) by a court in the southern city of Shenzhen, China’s official Xinhua News Agency reported. Two other researchers involved in the project received lesser sentences and fines. The verdict said the three defend... | 1 | 4 |
Officials with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare announced the deaths Friday, saying they are unusual because most influenza-related deaths occur among older adults. “This flu strain appears to be impacting some children in Idaho heavily, and we want to make sure that Idahoans are taking precautions to stay sa... | 1 | 4 |
"A fake news story that claimed former [OFFICIAL] tweeted that he wanted U.S. Sen. John McCain to die from a brain tumor originally came from a parody website looking to troll conservatives. The headline on a July 20, 2017, post on DailyThings.world read, ""[PERSON] tweets sick attack on John McCain, says he should hav... | 0 | 4 |
Then Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, strewing mold-producing wreckage across the island and forcing many to use fume-spewing generators for power. The boy, now 8, started having twice-monthly attacks and needing nearly four times the amount of medicine he used to take. His mother said weekly power outages in th... | 1 | 4 |
“You want to get clean so bad. You know something’s killing you and you can’t stop,” said the 33-year-old who used heroin for 10 years. This spring was different. While in a jail work-release program, she took a medication called buprenorphine. It quieted a voice in her brain that told her to keep using. When she got o... | 1 | 4 |
In essence, “antioxidants allow cancer cells to escape cells’ own defense system” against tumors, biologist Per Lindahl of Sweden’s University of Gothenburg and a co-author of the study told reporters. That lets existing tumors, even those too small to be detected, proliferate uncontrollably. The findings imply that “t... | 1 | 4 |
In March 2020, social media users started sharing clips from the 2018 South Korean television show “My Secret Terrius,” which supposedly showed characters using the word “coronavirus.” This is crazy . If you are home , go on Netflix now ……. Type “My Secret Terrius” and go to season -1 and episode 10 and move straight t... | 0 | 4 |
In early July 2019, Haile Bailey’s casting as main character Ariel in a live-action reboot of Disney’s animated film The Little Mermaid caused controversy on social media, sparking a meme about another person of color having appeared in the original animated television series from the early 1990s.In the meme linked abo... | 1 | 4 |
A meme stating that every person who has been diagnosed with cancer has a pH that is “too acidic” (and that cancer cannot live in an alkaline environment) has been popping up on social media since late 2016. This specific meme was posted by prolific internet misinformation artist and frequent abuser of the appeal to na... | 0 | 4 |
There are currently no approved treatments or vaccines specifically for COVID-19, the respiratory disease that has killed more than 35,000 people and infected over 745,000 globally in just a few months. No vaccine is expected to be ready for use until at least 2021, as they must still be widely tested in humans before ... | 1 | 4 |
"Speaker Dean Cannon's proposal to create separate criminal and civil divisions of the Florida Supreme Court passed the House 79-38 on April 15, 2011, but not before Democrats and Republicans argued over an alleged purpose of the court expansion -- the handling of death penalty cases. Cannon wants to expand the Supreme... | 1 | 4 |
Since 2007, a rumor about a young girl with a gun (Patricia Harrington) and two undocumented people breaking in (Ralphel Resindez and Enrico Garcia) plays on xenophobia and fear to make its point during its cyclical appearances on Facebook and in email boxes:Shotgun Preteen vs. Illegal alien Home Invaders: Butte, Monta... | 0 | 4 |
“Swatting” is a type of prank whereby someone falsely notifies police of a serious threat, such as bomb-making or a hostage situation, in an attempt to have police respond with a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team to a targeted address: Example: [Collected via e-mail, August 2014] This story is circulating all ove... | 0 | 4 |
In April 2016, the web site News4KTLA published an article reporting that Coca-Cola had issued a recall on Dasani water products after a clear parasite was found in bottles across the United States: If you purchase/drink Dasani water you might want to listen up. There has been a major recall by the Coca-Cola company to... | 0 | 4 |
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren became the subject of increased scrutiny and rhetorical attacks from the right in January 2019, after she declared she was in the running for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020. Against that background, a viral meme re-emerged on social media that attributed an eye-catching viewp... | 0 | 4 |
"March 7 is the last day the U.S. Department of State will hear public comments on Keystone XL, a proposed pipeline that would carry diluted oil sands from Western Canada to Nebraska and then to refineries on the Gulf Coast. With the closing of the 30-day comment period, six years of contentious debate between environm... | 1 | 4 |
On 8 December 2017, the “America’s Last Line of Defense” web site published an article reporting that the daughter of U.S. Senator Chuck Schumer (D.-NY) had recently spoken out about her father’s supposed affair with one of her high school classmates: Things just keep getting worse for the Democrat party. As Republican... | 0 | 4 |
The cost of infusing natalizumab is not mentioned, but this study found the 2-year cost to be $72,120. The news release mentions the main benefit of less frequent dosing of natalizumab (infusions every five to 12 weeks, instead of the standard every 4 weeks) as a “risk reduction for PML as high as 94 percent” up to 6 y... | 0 | 4 |
Nova has struggled in May following a solid start. He is 0-4 with a 7.61 ERA this month. The Pirates diagnosed the injury after Nova gave up five runs, four earned, in a loss to Cincinnati last Thursday. Director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk says he expects 10 days being enough time for Nova to recover. The Pirates ... | 1 | 4 |
During an April 2 speech to the National Republican [INSTITUTION]ional Committee, [OFFICIAL] once again attacked wind power, falsely claiming that noise from turbines causes cancer and that turbines sink property values by 75 percent.The president has repeatedly erred when it comes to wind power. As we’ve explained bef... | 0 | 4 |
Three of the other five patients are in either a serious or a critical condition in hospital, while the remaining two have mild symptoms, the United Nations health agency said in a disease outbreak update. H7N9 bird flu emerged last year in China and has infected around 150 people so far there and in Taiwan and Hong Ko... | 1 | 4 |
In the summer of 2019, we received renewed inquiries from readers about an unusual interpretation of the legacy of St. Patrick, one that claimed the patron saint of Ireland was responsible for the genocide of an African tribe who were purportedly the original inhabitants of that island. The theory has given rise to man... | 0 | 4 |
On 10 March 2019, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) was considering leveraging people’s social media accounts to determine the veracity of their disability claims: The [PERSON] administration has been quietly working on a proposal to use social media like Facebook and Twitte... | 1 | 4 |
Although some of these infections can be treated easily, others - like the superbug MRSA and other drug-resistant bugs - can be fatal or affect patients’ health very seriously, taking several months of costly hospital care and medication to beat. A survey by the European Centre for Diseases Prevention and Control (ECDC... | 1 | 4 |
"For the most part, Republican attacks on the [PERSON] Foundation have raised questions about its donors, but now an article from the conservative Daily Caller website challenges one of the foundation’s signature efforts, getting affordable HIV/AIDS drugs to patients worldwide. In a story headlined as an exclusive, a D... | 0 | 4 |
There was no mention of cost. The article reports that “patients with two copies of the arginine variant lived an average 38 percent longer than patients with the glycine variant. Patients with glycine variant didn’t respond to the beta blocker.” Did they live longer whether or not they received bucindolol or not? It i... | 0 | 4 |
"Carly Fiorina may be a former CEO, but her campaign hasn’t been all about business and economics. Fiorina has made abortion one of her top issues, most notably referencing a controversial anti-abortion video during a Republican debate. On Jan. 20, 2016, at an Iowa Right to Life event in Des Moines, she cited a statist... | 0 | 4 |
We think it’s too early to guess at what any therapy based on this technique would cost, so we won’t flag the story for not mentioning costs. The story says that the therapy resulted in “increased platelet counts” and “improvement of some immune-system cells.” The story should have provided quantitative data and tried ... | 1 | 4 |
In August 2020, as states and school districts in the United States grappled with whether and how to reopen schools for the fall semester, multiple readers asked Snopes to examine the accuracy of a social media post, shared widely by users in the United States, that claimed children who showed symptoms of COVID-19 coul... | 0 | 4 |
The release makes no mention of the cost of the supplemented diets compared to what might be expected for a normal daily diet. Some brands of extra-virgin olive oil can cost considerably more, comparatively, than other available cooking oils. And you’d have to buy lot of olive oil to match this diet — participants rece... | 1 | 4 |
"It’s understandable that a story might not be able to discuss the costs of something that’s 10 years away from availability. What is not so understandable, however, is why they did the story now. The story simply stated, ""The cream succeeded in 9 out of 10 cases with the rats."" How is the ""success"" of an anti-impo... | 0 | 4 |
Voters in both Western states approved ballot initiatives in 2012 allowing personal possession and use of marijuana by anyone aged 21 and or older for purposes of just getting high, though public consumption of pot remains illegal. In January the world’s first state-licensed retail marijuana outlets opened for business... | 1 | 4 |
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