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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Geriatrician Gary Sy NOT promoting Glufarelin for diabetes

By VERA Files | Jul 19, 2023 5:38 PM

Netizens are still sharing a two-month-old Facebook (FB) post about a fake ad claiming that geriatrician Gary Sy promoted Glufarelin, a milk supplement that allegedly cures diabetes. In 2022, the Food and Drug Administration warned people against purchasing or consuming Glufarelin, which is not on the agency’s list of registered food products. Impostor FB page […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: PGH, endocrinologist Augusto Litonjua NOT promoting milk supplement for diabetes

By VERA Files | Jul 07, 2023 6:25 PM

An impostor of the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) has claimed on Facebook (FB) that endocrinologist Augusto Litonjua endorsed Glufarelin, a milk supplement that could allegedly cure diabetes. “That’s fake news,” PGH Public Affairs Coordinator and pediatric cardiologist Jose Jonas Del Rosario said in a July 5 message to VERA Files Fact Check. The bogus FB […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Glufarelin does NOT treat diabetes

By VERA Files | Nov 12, 2022 12:59 AM

Several Facebook (FB) pages are fraudulently promoting a milk supplement that claims to treat diabetes in just under a week. The promo posts appeared as early as Sept. 19 and continue to circulate this week, receiving 580,000 recent views, according to FB. One of the posts’ headlines read: “1,391,510 people have recovered from the disease, […]

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