Claims about just 10% of WHO-approved medicines being available not backed by fact
Fact-check Malta: Are WHO-advised palliative care medicines unavailable in Malta? Read More »
Public outcry on incinerator and conflicting claims over its impact
Fact-check Malta: What does an impact assessment into the new Magħtab incinerator say? Read More »
More than 12 countries have euthanasia laws, but no two are identical
Fact-check Malta: How does Malta’s assisted dying proposal compare to other countries? Read More »
Readers paused to catch their breath when a respiratory expert warned of Malta’s dire asthma rates
Fact-check Malta: How high is Malta’s asthma rate? Read More »
Bernard Grech warned that power cuts can be fatal if someone’s sleep apnoea machine loses power
Fact-check Malta: Is a power cut deadly to someone with sleep apnoea? Read More »
July 10, 2024 Social media sees an endless stream of trends. A potential contender for the summer’s hottest: sunscreen is actually bad for you. At least, so say a number of TikTok users. News sites in the United States have been reporting that misinformation about sunscreen is spreading profusely on the bite-size video platform and
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July 8, 2024 Shocking new revelations into a Steward-funded campaign orchestrated to smear former Health Minister Chris Fearne led inaccurate claims over whether this absolved Fearne of his ongoing legal troubles linked to a concession awarding three of Malta’s public hospitals to a private consortium. The deal was later taken over by US healthcare giant
Fact-check Malta: Do smear campaign reports clear Chris Fearne? Read More »
June 27, 2024 Rumours that a butcher on the island of Gozo was killing sick dogs and cats and selling them to customers as sausages spread like wildfire on Friday 21 June, causing panic and disgust in equal measure. They claimed that several people had fallen sick and were admitted to hospital over the weekend
News of Steward’s bankruptcy led some to speculate that the hospitals would have been up for sale
Fact-check Malta: Would Malta have had to sell the hospitals under a bankrupt Steward? Read More »
Doctors for Life made the claim in a letter to MEP Cyrus Engerer
Fact-check Malta: Are 90% of pregnancies in which Down syndrome is detected aborted? Read More »
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