AP-KFF polling of over 2,000 rural voters finds about 8 in 10, including 68% of MAHA backers, say Trump's policies hurt or did nothing for local health. Two-thirds of those backers call a candidate's MAHA support extremely or very important to their vote, so the gap reaches November's ballot.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence60
The United States is in its worst measles year since 1991. The figure on the federal counter is one death, marked subject to change, while Pennsylvania officials describe four deaths among unvaccinated people.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence50
Two former commissioners, writing before Heidi Overton's Senate hearing on Thursday, argue that FDA review capacity now decides where new medicines reach patients first. Their evidence is a count of trial starts.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption33
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives76
- Confidence48
STAT reports that John Gaitanis, newly installed as chair of the federal committee that helps steer roughly $2 billion in autism research, has financial ties to leucovorin. STAT does not say what form that interest takes.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
A plastic surgeon writing for STAT counts 1.6 million minimally invasive cosmetic procedures on American men in 2024 and says the consultation now begins in an app. She has swapped general warnings for named harms.
Reality
- Evidence33
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives60
- Confidence45
A 2024 study of more than 13 million records measured the drop without explaining it. The account of what replaced the label comes from one pediatrician and a phone call about pathological demand avoidance.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption55
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives35
- Confidence45
Nearly 13,000 reported cases were tied to recalled iceberg lettuce grown in central Mexico. Federal officials still cannot say how sewage contaminated enough food to sicken that many people.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption80
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives48
- Confidence57
Case definitions are boring by design, so that a measles death recorded in Pennsylvania means the same thing as one recorded in Texas. Two former CDC officials argue that the shared rulebook is what is now in dispute.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives72
- Confidence44
A STAT opinion piece sets NIH's 13% award rate beside Medicaid's shift to twice-yearly renewals to argue both losses will arrive through documentation, though only the Medicaid half comes with a measured denominator.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption42
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives58
- Confidence41
Age verification built into the hardware has now passed FDA review as part of a product, which hands later applicants a template, though the lock Juul will ship is switched on at the owner's option.
Reality
- Evidence48
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence54
Writing in STAT, two forensic and reproductive psychiatrists argue that liability fear will drive general psychiatrists and OB-GYNs away from new mothers, a prediction resting on one workforce number and on what trainees have told them.
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+45
- Incentives70
- Confidence45
Medicare's G2211 code paid $16 extra for ongoing, relationship-based care and drew 26 million claims in its first year. Claims volume, though, is the one thing a fee-schedule tweak is guaranteed to move.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption78
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence52
A review of 350 papers argues that cutting dietary protein extends healthspan. Physiologists say the human evidence for the over-65s, the sedentary and GLP-1 users runs the other way.
Reality
- Evidence54
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+52
- Incentives42
- Confidence50