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News Facts Network→ Trump Frees Medicare Fraudster Behind $200M Scam Targeting Vulnerable Patients

2025-06-02 Donald Trump has commuted the 50-year sentence of Lawrence Duran, a South Florida man convicted... The post Trump Frees Medicare Fraudster Behind $200M Scam Targeting Vulnerable Patients appeared first on News Facts Network. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Donald Trump – No evidence Trump’s experimental drug program for terminal patients saved ‘thousands and thousands’

2024-10-31 "Right to Try" experimental drug program saved "thousands and thousands of lives." Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ NHS England report on waiting lists confuses patients and cases

2024-10-15 An interactive report available on the NHS England website claims to show the number of patients awaiting treatment, but uses figures for the number of cases instead. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Remdesivir didn’t kill COVID-19, Ebola patients, as social media post claims

2024-06-27 "Hospitals murdered patients” with remdesivir, a drug banned from Ebola trials because of “53% kill rate.” Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Why COVID-19 patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it

2024-03-11 Why COVID patients who could most benefit from Paxlovid still aren’t getting it Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Video Does NOT Show Israeli Army Attacking Patients From Kamal Hospital In Gaza With Bulldozers

2023-12-20 Does a viral video on the X platform prove that "the Kamal Hospital in the Gaza Strip" was attacked by the Israeli forces "with a bulldozer" in 2023? No, that's not true: The footage predates the conflict. It is a least a decade old, and Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – No, Texas Children’s Pediatrics clinics don’t have a vaccine mandate for patients

2023-12-19 “Texas Children’s Hospital pediatric clinics announce they will no longer treat unvaccinated children.” Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Around 6.5 million patients in England on hospital waiting lists

2023-11-20 Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves seems to have mistaken the number of treatments waiting to begin with the number of individuals awaiting treatment. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Palestinian Health Ministry Did NOT Announce That All ICU Patients Had Died At Al Shifa Hospital In Gaza By November 12, 2023

2023-11-16 Did the Ministry of Health in Gaza announce that all the ICU patients at the Al Shifa hospital had died in mid-November 2023 because of Israeli bombardments and cutting off electricity as well as blocking supplies? No, that's not true: Pa Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Elon Musk’s claim that ventilators killed COVID-19 patients confuses correlation with causation

2023-11-14 REVIEW In early November 2023, a reader reached out to Health Feedback, asking us to review the credibility of a claim made by Elon Musk, the owner of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience. Musk’s Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Wes Streeting wrong to say a million more patients waiting than a year ago

2023-11-09 The latest official data shows that about half a million more people are waiting for planned treatment in England. Labour used a less reliable figure for its comparison. Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Are patients in Wales twice as likely to be on an NHS waiting list as those in England?

2023-11-07 The health secretary has not explained what his claim was based on, but the best comparable data we can find suggests those in Wales are around 60% more likely to be on a waiting list. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: 80% Of COVID-19 Patients Put On Ventilators Did NOT Die

2023-11-03 Did 80 percent of COVID-19 patients put on ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic die? No, that's not true: A Johns Hopkins public health expert told Lead Stories that "80% is high," adding that the actual number is "around 30-40%." The Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Are 40% more Welsh patients ‘escaping’ to England for treatment?

2023-10-12 The health secretary’s claim about a rise in patients from Wales getting treatment in England appears to be based on unpublished data. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Mayo Clinic Website NOT ‘Recently’ Updated To Say Hydroxychloroquine Can Be Used To Treat COVID-19 Patients — Doctors Can Prescribe But It’s Not Recommended Treatment

2023-09-27 Did the Mayo Clinic website change in September 2023 to say hydroxychloroquine can be used to treat COVID-19 patients, after previously saying it was ineffective? No, that's not true: First, the Mayo Clinic's website was not "recently" up Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Health Professionals NOT ‘Urged’ To Call Vaginas ‘Bonus Holes’ To Avoid Offending Transgender Or Nonbinary Patients

2023-07-11 Are health care professionals being "urged" to call vaginas "bonus holes" to avoid offending "trans or non-binary patients"? No, that's not true: There is no widespread or official push to change the terminology. A single charity in the U Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Instagram posts – Claim mischaracterizes study’s findings on causes of death for COVID-19 patients

2023-05-23 Says a report shows that “Ventilators Killed Nearly ALL COVID Patients” Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Ventilators Did NOT Kill ‘Nearly All COVID Patients’ — Study’s Conclusion Was Misrepresented

2023-05-19 Did mechanical ventilators kill "nearly all COVID patients" during the early stages of the pandemic? No, that's not true: The headline making the claim misrepresented the results of a study that reached a different conclusion: that second Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Kaposi’s sarcoma is an opportunistic cancer that occurs in advanced AIDS patients; it’s not caused by poppers

2023-04-07 REVIEW In 2021, an estimated 650,000 people died of AIDS-related illnesses worldwide. When untreated, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infections progress to a chronic condition known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome or AIDS. AIDS is potentia Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Corn Flakes Were NOT Created To ‘Kill The Libido’ Of Health Resort Patients

2023-03-23 Were Corn Flakes, the cereal product that launched the Kellogg Company, invented to "kill the libido" of patients at a health resort? No, that's not true: Several versions of the Kellogg Company's website attribute the creation of the cer Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Ivermectin hasn’t proven effective in COVID-19 patients so far, despite persistent online claims

2023-01-02 REVIEW On 25 December 2022, the Epoch Times reposted an article by naturopath Colleen Huber titled “Ivermectin is Safe and Effective: The Evidence”. At the time of this review’s publication, the article had received more than 4,500 interaction Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ No evidence midazolam used to kill thousands of patients in April 2020

2022-12-01 It is not surprising that prescriptions of a palliative care drug used to make dying people more comfortable increased during one of the worst months of the pandemic. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ TikTok posts – No, an Ontario medical regulatory group didn’t say vaccine-hesitant patients may be mentally ill

2022-11-22 The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario suggested “that ‘unvaccinated’ people are mentally ill and in need of psychiatric medication.” Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Will 16 million patients be left without a GP by 2030?

2022-09-23 Figures projecting a shortfall of 8,800 GPs by 2030 don’t necessarily suggest that one in four people will be without a GP by the end of the decade. Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Alzheimer’s, Dementia Patients Do NOT ‘ALWAYS Have High Levels Of Aluminum’

2022-09-21 Do Alzheimer's and dementia patients "ALWAYS have high levels of aluminum in their bodies"? No, that's not true: A neurologist told Lead Stories this claim was false; a spokesperson for the National Institute of Environmental Health Scien Go to site post…»

AllSides→ Clinical Trials Show Ivermectin Does Not Benefit COVID-19 Patients, Contrary to Social Media Claims

2022-09-16 https://www.factcheck.org/2022/09/scicheck-clinical-trials-show-ivermectin-does-not-benefit-covid-19-patients-contrary-to-social-media-claims/ Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ Clinical Trials Show Ivermectin Does Not Benefit COVID-19 Patients, Contrary to Social Media Claims

2022-09-15 SciCheck Digest Randomized clinical trials have repeatedly found that ivermectin does not benefit COVID-19 patients. The National Institutes of Health recommends against its use for COVID-19. Ivermectin enthusiasts continue to falsely claim the contrar Go to site post…»

Truth or Fiction?→ ‘Hospitals Are Cancelling Appointments for Cancer Patients on the Day of the Queen’s Funeral’

2022-09-13 On September 13 2022, a screenshot of a tweet claiming that hospitals across the UK canceled treatments for cancer patients on the day of Queen Elizabeth’s memorial servces “as a ‘mark of respect'” was highly popular across pla Go to site post…»

Full Fact→ Pharmacists survey didn’t find patients’ ‘lives’ were being put at risk

2022-08-11 A headline in the Daily Express does not accurately reflect the findings of a survey published in The Pharmaceutical Journal. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Power to the Patients – Rapper Fat Joe says no one is making sure hospitals post their prices

2022-08-09 About a federal hospital price transparency requirement, “Nobody’s enforcing that law.” Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: African Americans Do NOT Make Up 87% Of Kidney Dialysis Patients In US In 2022

2022-08-02 Do African Americans make up 87 percent of kidney dialysis patients in the United States in 2022? No, that's not true: According to government data, the proportion of Black recipients of the treatment is 35 percent. The claim appeared in Go to site post…»

Snopes→ Are Missouri’s Pregnant Patients Being Denied Cancer Treatment Due to New Abortion Ban?

2022-07-06 Cancer care could be affected by restrictive abortion laws that took effect in early summer 2022.  Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez – Texas law targets abortion providers, not patients

2022-05-09 "In Texas, Republicans passed a law allowing rapists to sue their victims for getting an abortion." Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ Clinical Trials Find No Increase in Mortality Among COVID-19 Patients Treated with Remdesivir, Contrary to Viral Claim

2022-04-06 SciCheck Digest Remdesivir is the only antiviral medication approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat COVID-19. But a retired chiropractor misleadingly claims on a viral clip on social media that the drug is “killing people.” St Go to site post…»

Lead Stories→ Fact Check: Real Patients Were Killed, Injured In Russian Bombing Of Mariupol Maternity Hospital

2022-03-11 Did a pregnant crisis actor wear bloody makeup to play the role of several different injured pregnant women in order to be photographed in the aftermath of the real bombing of a "long non-operational maternity hospital" in Mariupol, Ukrai Go to site post…»

Health Feedback→ Study on SARS-CoV-2 antibodies levels following infection don’t prove that recovered patients are protected from reinfection

2022-02-15 REVIEW As of February 2022, more than 77 million people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection, with more than 4 million requiring hospitalization, and more than 910,000 deaths. But many of these outcomes are preventable with vacc Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Nicole Sirotek – No, hospitalized COVID-19 patients weren’t killed by remdesivir

2022-02-10 Says remdesivir is responsible for killing patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Go to site post…»

PolitiFact→ Tulsi Gabbard – Fact-checking Tulsi Gabbard’s misleading claim about monoclonal antibody treatments, delta patients

2022-01-31 “Biden won’t allow Delta-variant COVID patients to get proven and effective monoclonal treatments even though there are 50,000-100,000 Americans infected by Delta EVERY DAY.” Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ Dr. Fauci Still Treats Patients, Contrary to Dr. Oz’s Claim 

2022-01-28 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, has been working for nearly two years to help end the COVID-19 pandemic — even directly treating patients wit Go to site post…»

FactCheck.org→ Dr. Fauci Still Treats Patients, Contrary to Dr. Oz’s Claim 

2022-01-28 Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, has been working for nearly two years to help end the COVID-19 pandemic — even directly treating patients wit Go to site post…»

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