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Mental health
What age do mental health conditions develop at?
Mental health spending in the English NHS
Has the number of teenage girls self-harming doubled?
Mental health: there are fewer beds, nurses and psychiatry trainees than in 2010
Mental Health in England: Jeremy Hunt vs Ralf Little
Mental health during pregnancy
latest factchecks
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10th Oct 2019
You do not need to stay home for two weeks after getting the flu vaccine
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3rd Oct 2019
Is the suicide rate up?
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3rd Oct 2019
The government has given six hospitals money to upgrade buildings
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27th Sep 2019
Pretty Little Thing products can contain lead, but probably not dangerous amounts
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26th Sep 2019
It’s not certain that 87 people a day are dying waiting for care
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24th Sep 2019
Express front page headline on diabetes is based on flawed research
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12th Sep 2019
We can’t say how many people are ‘hooked on’ prescription drugs
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5th Sep 2019
Red Bull and Monster don’t contain bull semen
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2nd Sep 2019
Life expectancy in the UK isn’t falling
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29th Aug 2019
There’s no evidence that any current vaccines cause cancer
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29th Aug 2019
Drinking water at set times does not provide certain health benefits
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20th Aug 2019
Being ‘measles free’ doesn’t mean there are no cases of measles
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13th Aug 2019
We can’t say patients are waiting over two weeks to see a GP on average
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8th Aug 2019
Autism prevalence is up but scientists have consistently found that vaccines don’t cause it
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6th Aug 2019
Money for the NHS: is it new or not?