People may be willing to condone statements they know to be false and even spread misinformation on social media if they believe those statements could become true in the future, according to research published by the American ...
Apr 14, 2022
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The World Health Organization voiced alarm Wednesday that registered COVID cases are once again rising globally, despite testing levels having dropped significantly.
Mar 16, 2022
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Following years of growing vaccine opposition and several outbreaks of measles—a vaccine-preventable disease—Facebook established in 2019 its first policy to stop the spread of misinformation about vaccines. Researchers ...
Mar 3, 2022
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Cancer patients undergoing active treatment were more likely to believe misinformation related to COVID-19 than those without a history of cancer, according to a new study led by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Feb 11, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines abounds, and people with depression are more likely than others to fall for it, a new study finds.
Jan 24, 2022
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As the Biden administration moves to contain the latest ravaging wave of COVID-19 by providing Americans with 1 billion COVID-19 self-test kits and 400 million N95 masks for free, new survey data reveal how many are wearing ...
Jan 24, 2022
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In a first-of-its-kind study comparing hundreds of millions of social media posts about online health topics, a team of researchers found that posts about COVID-19 were less likely to contain misinformation than posts about ...
Jan 12, 2022
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Since COVID-19 vaccines became available for children ages 5 to 11 in early November 2021, many families have been lining up to get their school-age kids vaccinated prior to holiday travel and gatherings.
Dec 16, 2021
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A study documenting experiences of Australian health researchers and science communicators during the COVID-19 pandemic shows a shared concern regarding the contribution of long neglected issues in the research and media ...
Dec 1, 2021
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The pandemic shows how quickly health misinformation can spread. However, there are tools to debunk misinformation, as demonstrated by a new study on health communication strategies from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, published ...
Nov 10, 2021
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