QUESTIONS ASKING FOR PERSONALIZED MEDICAL ADVICE ARE OFF-TOPIC. CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN. Healthcare refers to the system or systems used to deliver medical care to patients. It may be a monolithic, government controlled system (like the NHS in some parts of the UK) or a mixed system of providers and insurers (as in the US). Healthcare is the way the delivery of medical science is organised (at least for the purposes of tagging on this site).
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Did Kashpirovsky successfully heal people through psychic healing?
Anatoly Kashpirovsky (Russian Wikipedia, English Wikipedia) was a super-famous Russian celebrity, who, in the late '80s, went on Soviet TV and claimed he psychically healed people, and provided pain-relief psycically during surgery over a…
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Are there health benefits from using a massage chair on a regular basis?
http://www.humantouch.com/massage-chair-benefits.html make a series of claims regarding the health benefits from regularly using a massage chair:
Regular massage offers several measurable health benefits that
help promote everyday health. By…
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Does food on blue plates look tastier?
This Daily Mail article says the NHS is replacing their plates with blue ones to get patients to eat more.
NHS caterers have finally found a means of getting frail patients to eat more – putting the meals on blue plates.
The simple switch has…
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Do people with mental illnesses die equal to other health issues?
I have often heard having a serious mental illness it worse than diabetes and smoking. Mental illness is 'as bad for life expectancy as smoking', experts warn
Mental illness is 'as bad for life expectancy as smoking' link
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Is child's development in danger if living in institutions, like “orphanages”?
Decades of international research shows that living in institutions,
like “orphanages”, is harmful to a child’s development.
The Source of this statement doesn't provide any reference to this research.
What research has been done to prove this…
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Are children's baby/milk teeth a potentially useful supply of stem cells?
There's a raft of claims recently that baby (or milk) teeth are are a rich source of stem cells and could be used in the future to help cure diseases to or regrow failed and damaged organs. These claims are encouraging parents to save their…
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Are the top selling prescription drugs only effective for one in five patients?
A 2016 editorial in the BMJ makes the following claim:
The top 10 prescription drugs in sales have a cumulative clinical response rate of less than 20%.
The claim is not the central theme of the article, which is an argument for doing clinical…
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Is up to 95% of the human population genetically safe from leprosy?
In the article How Armadillos Can Spread Leprosy at the Smithsonian.com they state that
"Even more reassuring: up to 95 percent of the population is
genetically unsusceptible to contracting it."
Is this true? From my understanding, as well as a…
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Are those claims from Linda Bacon's Health at Every Size accurate?
Facebook, Reddit, and basicly the rest of the internet exploded with the new viral movement HAES. This movement mainly claims, that being fat is healthy; alleging that they have "evidence" catching these claims in the picture:
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Are some beards dirtier then toilets?
Top stories this week include this: Some Beards Contain More Poo Than a Toilet. Is this true?
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Did a computer algorithm predict the 2014 Ebola outbreak 9 days before WHO?
This article claims that a computer algorithm predicted the recent (2014) Ebola outbreak 9 days before the World Health Organization announcement. Is this true?
As you can read in the article the algorithm didn't identify the disease, only collected…
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Are the "DHSC Communications Team" using bots to flood social media with posts showing NHS workers supportive of government policy?
The image below seems to be circulating on Facebook along with a text
To give you an idea of the times we are living in, Twitter has been
flooded with hundreds of new accounts today.
All have the NHS tag and a picture of a Nurse or doctor. All…
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Have chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine already been prescribed to billions of people?
In a March 27, 2020 Tech Startups article about a controversial study about the treatement of COVID-19 with the drugs Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine they quote a paper as saying:
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are extremely well-known drugs…
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Is back pain often caused by unconscious emotional issues, such as rage?
Tension Myositis Syndrome (TMS) is a diagnosis for back pain given by Dr. John Sarno.
According to Sarno, TMS is a condition in which unconscious emotional issues (primarily rage) initiate a process that causes physical pain and other symptoms. His…
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Root canals cause heart attacks?
There is a widely viewed Youtube video (400,000 views as of now), by a cardiologist, referencing his book, co-authored with a dentist, that claims that root canals, even if they are done well, cause systemic infections which cause inflammation, and…
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