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A Telegraph article reported comments made during the Covid Inquiry, which inaccurately described the content of Age UK’s witness statement. Read
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Wes Streeting told the Labour conference that tooth decay was the number one reason children end up in hospital but this is only true of children aged five and over. Read
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Suzanne Webb MP claimed in Parliament that 40% of those in this age group are obese, but her office says she meant to say “obese or overweight”. Read
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Last week Sir Keir Starmer claimed that Labour achieved the shortest waiting lists “in history”, while Wes Streeting said it had delivered the shortest waiting times. Read
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Claims last month that one in three women working in surgery have been sexually assaulted by a colleague come from a voluntary survey that was shared by email and on social media. Read
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There is no evidence thousands of girls were injured by an HPV vaccine project or that this led to the Gates Foundation being kicked out of India. Read
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The health secretary’s claim about a rise in patients from Wales getting treatment in England appears to be based on unpublished data. Read
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Claims on social media that cholesterol in food doesn’t affect blood cholesterol levels are misleading, as are claims that carbohydrates—not fat—increase these. Read
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The BMA accused the chancellor of being ‘misleading’ over claims doctors had received an above inflation pay rise. Read
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Tests with two different wells for samples that can detect three different infections do not prove the infections are the same. Read
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