HealthGuard protects patients from medical misinformation

HealthGuard, a service of NewsGuard, helps patients, healthcare workers, and anyone involved in the medical field identify trustworthy sources of health news and information while browsing the web — and warns users when they encounter links to sites with unreliable health or medical information. HealthGuard protects patients from medical misinformation spreading online and arms health workers with an easy tool to address misconceptions patients may have learned of online.

With a browser extension, mobile apps, and digital literacy tools, HealthGuard helps patients, healthcare workers, and anyone involved in the medical field identify trustworthy sources of health news and information while browsing the web — and warns users when they encounter links to sites with unreliable health or medical information.

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Our partnership with the World Health Organization to combat health misinformation

Throughout the pandemic, NewsGuard has provided the WHO with reports highlighting the top COVID and vaccine myths circulating across the major social platforms, the sources responsible for advancing those claims, and the groups on which those claims thrive. These reports are based on NewsGuard’s health-focused Misinformation Fingerprints data and its Reliability Ratings of health misinformation websites.

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Mount Sinai Health System provides HealthGuard to its doctors and patients

The Mount Sinai Health System in New York provided the HealthGuard browser extension to its thousands of patients, doctors, students, and health care workers to help them build health literacy and avoid health hoaxes.

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Health websites are notoriously misleading. So we rated their reliability

New tool against the “infodemic”

NewsGuard Launches HealthGuard, a New Tool to Protect Against Online Health Care Hoaxes