Social media users shared a range of false claims this week. Here are the facts.
Root canals don't cause heart attacks, experts sayCLAIM: The No. 1 cause of heart attacks is a tooth treated for a root canal.
The false claim stems from 1920s research that"has since been disproved through controlled research studies," Reddy said. A researcher at the time believed bacteria stuck in dentinal tubules during root canal treatment could"leak," causing disease in other parts of the body, according to the American Association of Endodontists. As a result, he advocated for the infected teeth to be removed, rather than repaired and preserved with a root canal procedure.
The decision was not about safety. The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday announced that anyone getting a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer or Moderna moving forward will receive the"bivalent" shot. The bivalent vaccines rolled out last fall as a booster dose and consist of half the original recipe and half protection against the BA.4 and BA.5 versions of omicron.
While the evidence suggests that the original vaccines continue to protect against serious disease, Capobianco said, data from the use of the bivalent shots as boosters"have emerged indicating that the bivalent vaccine provides improved protection compared to the original monovalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines." The simplification of the vaccine regimen is also rooted in the fact that most people have now been vaccinated, infected or both, Capobianco added.
THE FACTS: A report published in March by the International Commission of Jurists in collaboration with the U.N's AIDS agency called for enforcing minimum age of consent laws in a non-discriminatory manner. It did not call for decriminalizing all sexual activity between minors and adults, spokespersons for the U.N. and the commission confirmed.
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