Is That Health Headline True?
Check the Research Behind It.
Paste a link to any health or medical news story. Tessa Newslink finds the research the story relies on and shows you, claim by claim, what the science actually supports, with links so you can check our work.
Free to use. Results in minutes.
Every day, headlines promise revolutionary cures, sound the alarm on everyday products, or claim a “shocking new study” changes everything Most people don’t have the hours required to track down original research, decode technical jargon, and verify statistical claims.
Tessa Newslink™ changes that. Paste any news article link, and the Tessa biomedical analysis engine instantly compares what the article claims against what the peer-reviewed research actually demonstrates.
Is that health headline true? Check the research behind it.
Paste a link to any health or medical news story. Tessa Newslink finds the research the story relies on and shows you, claim by claim, what the science actually supports, with links so you can check our work.
Free to use. Results in minutes.
Every day, headlines promise revolutionary cures, sound the alarm on everyday products, or claim a “shocking new study” changes everything. Most readers do not have the hours required to track down original research, decode technical jargon, and verify statistical claims.
Tessa Newslink™ changes that.
Paste any news article link, and our biomedical analysis engine instantly compares what the article claims against what the peer-reviewed research actually demonstrates.
Here’s a Real Example
Tessa Newslink is built on our proven T.E.S. (Transparency, Explainability, and Significance) framework developed for professional scientific evaluation. It puts the analytical capabilities of biomedical data science directly into your browser
How it Works
Built on Tessa’s proven T.E.S. (Transparency, Explainability, and Significance) framework developed for professional scientific evaluation, Newslink puts the analytical capabilities of biomedical data science directly into your browser.
Paste the Link
Fetch the story, pull the text and read the story
Extract the claims
Identify what the story asserts and how strongly
Search for studies
Queries PubMed, Europe PMC and Crossref
Weighs the candidates
Compares each paper to the story’s details
Reads the study
Builds a structured profile of the matched paper
Compares story to study
Checks each claim against the paper
Color-coded Verdict
Get a high-level verdict showing whether the story is Supported, Mostly Supported, Mostly Unsupported, or Entirely Unsupported, complete with color-coded confidence indicators.
What the Verdicts Mean
Newslink delivers an overall summary of the claims as well as a claim-by-claim analysis
The overall story:
- Supported — The story’s claim match the research
- Mostly supported — The majority of claims check out
- Mixed — Half the claim hold up, half don’t
- Mostly unsupported — Most of the claims don’t check out
- Unsupported — The claim don’t match the research
Each claim:
- Supported — The claim matches the research
- Overstated — the research points this way, but the story goes further than the data
- Unsupported — Can’t be checked or the research doesn’t address this claim
Everything You Need to Get the Real Picture
- Claim-by-Claim Breakdown: Read an itemized evaluation detailing what the article claimed versus what the researchers observed.
- Study Integrity & TScore: Jump straight from the news report into Tessa’s comprehensive Summary Analysis to examine the underlying study’s overall trustworthiness score (TScore).
- Direct Literature Links: Access primary source papers on PubMed, Europe PMC, or Crossref with a single click to inspect original data.
- One-Click Sharing: Instantly generate shareable verification reports for X, LinkedIn, Facebook, email, or SMS to stop the spread of sensational claims in your network.
Don’t Settle for Scientific Guesswork.
Science moves forward through evidence, not hype. Verify your reading list today with the same analytical engine trusted by researchers and clinicians.
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