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A five-year-old health tip about applying tomato juice to treat varicose veins reappeared on Facebook.

Iloilo Rep. Janette Garin misattributed the study, which was actually conducted by the U.S. FDA to test the safety of medicine stockpiles of the country’s military.

HB 7758 seeks to grant working women two-day menstrual leave with full pay.

An impostor of the Philippine General Hospital has claimed on Facebook that endocrinologist Augusto Litonjua endorsed Glufarelin. 

A Filipina vlogger is falsely claiming that the WHO admitted in its website that COVID-19 vaccines can cause multiple sclerosis.

Kumalat ulit ang Facebook post na nagbababala sa pag-inom ng nagyeyelong tubig kapag tag-init dahil magdudulot daw ito ng pagputok ng mga ugat ng dugo. Mali ito.

While Marcos did not extend the state of calamity which ended in 2022, he has yet to lift the state of public health emergency which remains in effect.

A Facebook Reel revived a video where a naturopathy practitioner claimed that people with diabetes should not eat fish without scales. 

An infographic claims that wearing face masks and presenting vaccination cards when entering establishments are mandatory while Metro Manila remains under alert level 1. Not true.

While the Arcturus subvariant is “increasing in global prevalence,” health officials noted that current available evidence does not show any differences in the severity of its effect compared to the original Omicron variant.

Taking oral glutathione is not included in the guidelines to reverse non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, hepatologist Arlinking Ong-Go.

Websites imitating ABS-CBN News posted a story on "Glucoactive", a diabetes remedy supposedly endorsed by Dr. Tony Leachon. The article is fabricated.