Every day, millions of people open their phones and scroll through a barrage of health information: a video of someone claiming a miraculous cure for arthritis, a social media post warning about a common vaccine, a celebrity endorsement of a detox tea that promises to “cleanse your organs.” Some of this content is harmless. A lot of it is not. It can lead people to delay necessary care, stop taking prescribed medication, or fall for expensive, worthless supplements. It can cause panic, distrust, and division. And because false claims are often more dramatic and emotional than the cautious language of…

1. A Quiet Counterattack in the War on Health Misinformation It used to be that a trip to the library meant hunting for a dusty encyclopedia or a quiet corner to study. But at the University of Alberta, the library has become something far more urgent: a frontline clinic for information health. The new partnership between the University of Alberta and its library network is not about shelving books or polishing databases. It is about squashing the wild, dangerous, and often heartbreaking misinformation swirling around GLP-1 drugs—the class of medications that includes famous names like Ozempic, Wegovy, and other semaglutide-based…