Five Years After Covid-19: Unanswered Questions and Lasting Impacts
A French podcast series revisits the Covid-19 pandemic five years after its start, exploring its origins in Wuhan and its lingering impacts using archived material from over 30 podcasts, media reports and expert interviews, addressing unanswered questions and assessing its long-term consequences.
Five Years After Covid-19: Unanswered Questions and Lasting Impacts
A French podcast series revisits the Covid-19 pandemic five years after its start, exploring its origins in Wuhan and its lingering impacts using archived material from over 30 podcasts, media reports and expert interviews, addressing unanswered questions and assessing its long-term consequences.
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24% Bias Score
Blackpool's Public Health Crisis: Lowest Male Life Expectancy in the UK
Blackpool has the UK's lowest average male life expectancy (73.6 years), six years below England's average, due to poverty, poor housing, and reduced public health funding.
Blackpool's Public Health Crisis: Lowest Male Life Expectancy in the UK
Blackpool has the UK's lowest average male life expectancy (73.6 years), six years below England's average, due to poverty, poor housing, and reduced public health funding.
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48% Bias Score
Toxic Cyanobacteria Threatens US Water Supplies
The freshwater cyanobacteria Aetokthonos hydrillicola, found on the invasive Hydrilla verticillata plant, produces toxins causing neurodegenerative disease in birds and potentially humans through contaminated food sources; its spread in US waters poses a growing threat.
Toxic Cyanobacteria Threatens US Water Supplies
The freshwater cyanobacteria Aetokthonos hydrillicola, found on the invasive Hydrilla verticillata plant, produces toxins causing neurodegenerative disease in birds and potentially humans through contaminated food sources; its spread in US waters poses a growing threat.
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32% Bias Score
Canadian Cancer Costs to Reach $37.7 Billion in 2024
A Canadian Cancer Society study reveals that cancer will cost Canadian society $37.7 billion in 2024, with patients and caregivers paying $7.5 billion, highlighting financial inequities in accessing cancer care; the study projects that cost to rise to $37.4 billion annually by 2034.
Canadian Cancer Costs to Reach $37.7 Billion in 2024
A Canadian Cancer Society study reveals that cancer will cost Canadian society $37.7 billion in 2024, with patients and caregivers paying $7.5 billion, highlighting financial inequities in accessing cancer care; the study projects that cost to rise to $37.4 billion annually by 2034.
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28% Bias Score
Trump Nominee to Investigate Vaccine-Autism Link Despite Scientific Consensus
President-elect Trump's nominee for health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, may investigate a link between vaccines and autism, despite scientific consensus rejecting this. The increase in autism diagnoses from one in 150 in 2000 to one in 36 in 2020 (CDC) is cited as justification, contradicting the...
Trump Nominee to Investigate Vaccine-Autism Link Despite Scientific Consensus
President-elect Trump's nominee for health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, may investigate a link between vaccines and autism, despite scientific consensus rejecting this. The increase in autism diagnoses from one in 150 in 2000 to one in 36 in 2020 (CDC) is cited as justification, contradicting the...
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52% Bias Score
Alcohol Consumption Significantly Increases Cancer Risk, Warns Voronezh Oncology Dispensary
The Voronezh Regional Oncology Dispensary warns that alcohol increases cancer risk through acetaldehyde production, DNA damage, and interaction with other carcinogens, linking it to cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, breast, stomach, and intestines; they recommend total abstinence or se...
Alcohol Consumption Significantly Increases Cancer Risk, Warns Voronezh Oncology Dispensary
The Voronezh Regional Oncology Dispensary warns that alcohol increases cancer risk through acetaldehyde production, DNA damage, and interaction with other carcinogens, linking it to cancers of the mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, breast, stomach, and intestines; they recommend total abstinence or se...
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56% Bias Score
"Opioid Settlement Funds: Allocation Raises Concerns Over Effectiveness"
"Approximately $50 billion in opioid settlement funds are being distributed across the U.S., with less than one-fifth of the decision-making authority given to advisory groups that include individuals with lived experience of substance use disorders, leading to concerns about the effectiveness of sp...
"Opioid Settlement Funds: Allocation Raises Concerns Over Effectiveness"
"Approximately $50 billion in opioid settlement funds are being distributed across the U.S., with less than one-fifth of the decision-making authority given to advisory groups that include individuals with lived experience of substance use disorders, leading to concerns about the effectiveness of sp...
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52% Bias Score
"Colombia: Más de 560.000 botellas de licor adulterado incautadas en cinco años, con 41 muertes por metanol en 2023."
"Las autoridades colombianas incautaron más de 560.000 botellas de licor adulterado entre 2019 y 2024, con 41 muertes por intoxicación con metanol en 2023; el ñeque es la bebida más confiscada, seguida del aguardiente y el ron; la atomización de los cargamentos dificulta la investigación."
"Colombia: Más de 560.000 botellas de licor adulterado incautadas en cinco años, con 41 muertes por metanol en 2023."
"Las autoridades colombianas incautaron más de 560.000 botellas de licor adulterado entre 2019 y 2024, con 41 muertes por intoxicación con metanol en 2023; el ñeque es la bebida más confiscada, seguida del aguardiente y el ron; la atomización de los cargamentos dificulta la investigación."
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32% Bias Score
Opioid Settlement Funds Misallocated: Lack of Lived Experience Input Criticized
A new analysis finds that people with substance use disorder largely lack a formal say in how approximately $50 billion in opioid lawsuit settlement money is being used, with some funds going to efforts such as jail contraband scanners and drug-sniffing dogs, rather than proven recovery programs.
Opioid Settlement Funds Misallocated: Lack of Lived Experience Input Criticized
A new analysis finds that people with substance use disorder largely lack a formal say in how approximately $50 billion in opioid lawsuit settlement money is being used, with some funds going to efforts such as jail contraband scanners and drug-sniffing dogs, rather than proven recovery programs.
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48% Bias Score
Record Fentanyl Precursor Seizure in Netherlands Highlights Growing European Threat
The Netherlands seized 25 kilograms of N-boc-4-piperidone, a fentanyl precursor, enough for 15 million doses—the largest European seizure of its kind—raising concerns about the drug's spread across the continent.
Record Fentanyl Precursor Seizure in Netherlands Highlights Growing European Threat
The Netherlands seized 25 kilograms of N-boc-4-piperidone, a fentanyl precursor, enough for 15 million doses—the largest European seizure of its kind—raising concerns about the drug's spread across the continent.
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40% Bias Score
\"DRC Outbreak: 71 Dead Amidst Delayed Response to Flu-Like Illness\"
\"A flu-like illness outbreak in the DRC's Kwango province sickened 406 people (mostly children under five) between October 24 and December 5, resulting in at least 71 deaths; delayed reporting and logistical challenges hindered the response. \"
\"DRC Outbreak: 71 Dead Amidst Delayed Response to Flu-Like Illness\"
\"A flu-like illness outbreak in the DRC's Kwango province sickened 406 people (mostly children under five) between October 24 and December 5, resulting in at least 71 deaths; delayed reporting and logistical challenges hindered the response. \"
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24% Bias Score
"Ineffective Flu Vaccine Causes Early UK Outbreak, Experts Warn of NHS Crisis"
"An early and severe flu outbreak in Britain is overwhelming hospitals, with hospitalizations four times higher than last year, despite 15 million receiving the flu vaccine; experts warn of a potential NHS crisis due to a possible vaccine mismatch."
"Ineffective Flu Vaccine Causes Early UK Outbreak, Experts Warn of NHS Crisis"
"An early and severe flu outbreak in Britain is overwhelming hospitals, with hospitalizations four times higher than last year, despite 15 million receiving the flu vaccine; experts warn of a potential NHS crisis due to a possible vaccine mismatch."
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48% Bias Score