VERA FILES FACT CHECK: NO ‘new COVID-19 wave’ in Metro Manila
A text message about an alleged new wave of COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila is circulating on Facebook and private messaging. This is not true.
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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: DOH disowns circulating FAKE story promoting unregistered hypertension ‘cure’
A Facebook page posted an article supposedly based on an interview with Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire endorsing a product that claims to treat hypertension and other blood pressure-related conditions. The website article is fabricated.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: FAKE DOH advisory on ‘respiratory infection’ in China circulates
A bogus warning attributed to the DOH supposedly cautions the public against an antibiotic-resistant “upper respiratory infection” from China.
PH’s fight vs tobacco at a crossroads amid COVID pandemic
One product’s availability online that many find worrisome is tobacco.
Vape bill exposes young ‘vulnerable’ consumers to health risks, endangers already weak enforcement
Duterte, who expressed his anti-vaping stance strongly in 2019, has the option to sign it into law, allow it to lapse into law after 30 days, or veto the entire or parts of the proposed law.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: COVID-19 vaccines are NOT dangerous
While it is true that COVID-19 vaccines have risks of complications, “severe or life-threatening reactions are extremely rare” according to the Department of Health’s (DOH) Frequently Answered Questions page.
VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Post comparing symptoms of Omicron, Delta infections, common flu FALSE
The DOH affirmed there is no clear distinction in the symptom profiles of an earlier coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection from other virus variants and influenza.
Dalan padung sa ‘zero tobacco’: mga hinabako nga gustong moundang nakakuhag suporta gikan sa DOH Quitline
Matod sa Mayo Clinic sa United States (US), ang pagpanabako og sigarilyo usa sa mga nagdala og risgo sa high blood pressure. Mga kemikal gikan sa tabako mahimong “makadaut sa walls sa ugat” nga mahimong “mopadako sa risgo sa sakit sa kasingkasing.”
Ti Dalan Para iti ‘zero tobacco’: Dagiti agusar iti sigarilyo nga kayat nan ti agsardeng ket makaala iti extra nga suporta manipud iti DOH Quitline
Iti aldaw nga naipan idiay emergency room ti Cainta Hospital gapu iti hypertension wenno ‘high blood’,Jehoiakim Cabia, edad 28, ket nabagaan nga ti panagsigarilyo ket dakkel iti naitulong na isu nga napasamak daytoy kenkuana.
Philippines: Tobacco industry’s ‘laboratory rat’
FDA director Ana Rivera justified their grant-seeking venture by revealing that the agency had little allocation in 2016, and so funding research was nearly impossible.
