Medical News Today media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Medical News Today as leaning left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Medical News Today biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Medical News Today as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Medical News Today left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Medical News Today as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Medical News Today reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Medical News Today are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Medical News Today has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Medical News Today’s own report linked underneath.
Pope Leo has undergone surgery to remove part of his right lung due to lung cancer. The Vatican reports he is recovering well, walking and eating normally, though questions remain about the extent of the cancer and its impact on his upcoming tour.
Medical News Today reported it asPope Leo has lung adenocarcinoma: Lung cancer FAQs answered (opens Medical News Today in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MedialeanLeftCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Red VenturesIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- medicalnewstoday.com
- Seen publishing on
- medicalnewstoday.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 15 October 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Medical News Today ran the story anyway.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Medical News Today: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 15 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 15 October 2026. Ratings pulled 15 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Medical News Today, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Medical News Today publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.