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784 claims analyzed Last updated 2026-04-24

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Well-Supported 48 (6.1%) Disputed 5 (0.6%) Misleading 2 (0.3%) Unverified 729 (93%)

Of the 55 claims in Health with evidence either way, 87% held up.

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

A report by the Home Office of Britain from 2022 found that roughly 4,000 people underwent transition surgery each year in Iran.

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

A U.N. report on transition surgeries in Iran from 2015 described botched procedures that led to complications like 'severe bleeding, severe infection, scarring, chronic pain and abnormally shaped or located sexual organs.'

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Iran’s theocratic government has set a goal of generating more than $7 billion from medical tourism annually.

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

In the United States, the cost of surgery is around $45,000, and in Thailand, it’s approximately $30,000.

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

The cost of gender confirmation surgery in Iran is lower, with prices less than $12,000.

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Iran is one of the few places in the Muslim world that allows transgender people to seek gender-affirming care, and even subsidizes it.

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

For 40 years Iran has performed more gender transition surgeries than many other nations.

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145 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Iran became a pioneer in gender transition operations by forcing procedures on L.G.B.T.Q. Iranians.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Three-quarters of the island’s females had genital injuries.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

A female Hermann’s tortoise from the island of Golem Grad in North Macedonia had an injury from a fall on her carapace.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Law enforcement officials said that they would work with the schools to offer counseling services for the students who escaped the shooting, she said.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Mr. Lopez was also transported to the hospital, where he was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening, according to the police.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

The consequences would have been “staggering” if Mr. Trump had prevailed, undermining research into cancer cures and other advancements.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Some of the funding that the president had tried to erase — including for medical research, college aid and benefits for poor people — instead changed only slightly, the data show.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

In 2017, he announced that he had Parkinson’s disease, which in its early stages can produce similar effects on bodily movements and speech.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Mr. Jackson was hospitalized in November for treatment of a rare and particularly severe neurodegenerative condition, progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), according to the advocacy organization he founded, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Staying up is reckless and bad for us.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

The author's uncle had stopped riding his bicycle only six months before, at 79.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

Also, their diet is very specific to each animal.

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208 d ago · nytimes.com Health

The problem is that exposure to PFAS can cause damage to the liver and immune system.

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