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Health misinformation can ruin lives and damage health services. Our health team fact checks claims about health including funding and delivery, and dangerous medical claims, and makes recommendations to improve the quality of public information about health. We are grateful to the Health Foundation and the European Media and Information Fund for their support of this work.
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Latest health fact checks
Fenbendazole is not a proven treatment for cancer in people
Claims of a cheap cancer cure resurfaced on social media, but fenbendazole is not a recognised treatment for cancer.
Guardian corrects article about GPs refusing to give prostate cancer tests to black men
A poll from Prostate Cancer Research asked black people about “you or a loved one”, so we can’t say it tells us about their own experiences of prostate cancer testing.
How many people were treated in Covid-19 Nightingale hospitals?
There is some confusion online regarding the Nightingale hospitals and how many people they treated during the pandemic.