Policy introduced: 8 September 2026. This policy sets the standard for new articles and substantive updates. It does not certify that every older article has completed medical review.
Evidence and usefulness
New and substantially updated health articles must answer a clear reader need, explain relevant uncertainty and support medical claims with traceable sources. They should distinguish established guidance from preliminary findings and describe when professional assessment is needed.
Our sources and citations policy sets out how supporting evidence should be selected and presented.
Authorship and medical review
Author credits must identify the people or editorial team actually responsible for the writing. Qualifications, affiliations and claims of first-hand clinical experience must be supported. Editing or approving an article does not make someone its original author.
A medical-review credit requires a completed review of that article by a suitably qualified professional with relevant subject expertise. The record must include the reviewer’s identity, the version checked and the completion date. Permission to use a person’s name, or their work on another section of this website, is not a review of an individual blog article.
Where an article has no recorded medical reviewer and completed review date, readers should not assume it has been medically reviewed. The publication date and the last content update are separate from a medical-review date.
Review priorities
Clinical review should check factual accuracy, the interpretation of evidence, treatment claims, urgent-care advice, important exceptions and whether illustrations could mislead. A disclaimer does not replace these checks.
AI and editorial tools
AI assistance must not be used to invent citations, qualifications, patient encounters or personal experience. Editors remain responsible for checking claims against the cited material. Substantial AI involvement should be disclosed where it helps readers understand how the content was produced. An AI-detector score does not establish medical accuracy.
Corrections and publication decisions
Reported factual and medical-safety concerns must be assessed. Material that cannot be adequately supported should be corrected, withdrawn or withheld from publication as appropriate. See our corrections and updates policy.