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Nov 9, 2026 10:47 AM UTC

What do you check before sharing a health headline?

A headline about a new treatment can sound quite different from the study behind it. Before sharing one, I want to know whether the research involved people, how many took part and what the actual numbers were.

For a starting point, here is a health news resource: https://medproofs.com/health-news/. What do you look for first: the original paper, the size of the study or who funded it?