​How Health Professionals Respond To Online Health Rumors

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Given the abundance of information on social media, society’s challenge lies not in the difficulty of accessing health information but in sieving out truths from rumors. While research has shown that laypeople could easily be misled by health hoaxes, a new research conducted by Dr. Alton YK Chua from Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, and Dr. Snehasish Banerjee from the York Management School in the University of York examined whether medical professionals fared any better.