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The proliferation of digital medical misinformation negatively impacts public health and healthcare systems, necessitating a multidisciplinary mitigation strategy involving digital literacy, fact-checking, and regulatory frameworks. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To evaluate the societal and clinical burden of medical misinformation and identify key challenges and strategies for mitigating the digital infodemic.

August 23, 2026Apollo MedicineOpen Access

From Infodemic to Medical Misinformation: Burden, Challenges and the Way Forward: A Narrative Review

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To evaluate the societal and clinical burden of medical misinformation and identify key challenges and strategies for mitigating the digital infodemic.
Searched PubMed and Google Scholar for English-language publications from January 2010 to June 2025 using terms related to medical misinformation, disinformation, and infodemics.
Included observational surveys, cross-sectional studies, and systematic reviews focusing on digital health misinformation, healthcare system impacts, ethical issues, and mitigation strategies.
Digital misinformation amplified vaccine hesitancy, promoted unproven medical treatments, and diminished trust in healthcare systems, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Primary challenges identified include the lack of standardized definitions for misinformation, limited public digital health literacy, and insufficient regulatory frameworks.
Effective mitigation requires multidisciplinary strategies, including enhanced media literacy programs, fact-checking initiatives, journalist training, and tech platform regulation.

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Narrative review highlights the widespread harms of digital health misinformation, suggesting that multidisciplinary collaboration is essential to safeguard public health.

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Singhania et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a8aae407677a341144471a8 https://doi.org/10.1177/09760016261476494

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Narrative review highlights the widespread harms of digital health misinformation, suggesting that multidisciplinary collaboration is essential to safeguard public health.

From Infodemic to Medical Misinformation: Burden, Challenges and the Way Forward: A Narrative Review

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From Infodemic to Medical Misinformation: Burden, Challenges and the Way Forward: A Narrative Review

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