Health
Our coverage of health issues and health misconceptions and disinformation, including fact checks, fact sheets, multimedia stories, and in-depth reports. The health topics covered in this microsite are those that have gained the most prominence among Filipinos based on VERA Files' coverage. These include cancer and other non-communicable diseases, maternal and reproductive health, food and nutrition, traditional medicine, vaccines, COVID-19 and other infectious diseases, and mental health.
Latest Stories
FACT CHECK: Eating one malunggay seed daily does NOT cure over 300 diseases
By VERA Files
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Oct 31, 2024
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A Facebook user claimed that eating one malunggay seed daily can cure a myriad of diseases. An expert in herbal medicine says otherwise.
FACT CHECK: Drinking water with calamansi for 120 days will NOT clean the liver
By VERA Files
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Oct 15, 2024
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Neither hepatologists nor traditional medicine experts recommend drinking water mixed with calamansi juice to "clean" the liver.
Program boosts media reporting on public health vis-a-vis environment, climate change issues
By Kiara Gorrospe
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Sep 12, 2024
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A UP veterinarian said Filipinos' common encounters with animals in domestic, agricultural and wildlife settings pose potential risks for zoonotic disease transmission.
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