Editorial policy

What counts as a source

Health agencies, medical societies and specialist bodies come first. Peer-reviewed literature and public statistics come next.

Commercial sales pages are never used as sources. They may be consulted as background when describing what a market sells, and even then never as evidence that something works.

Evidence is graded and kept visible

Each claim carries a grade.

• Medical: supported by published literature or a health authority
• Practice: verifiable from policy, market or industry data
• Folk belief: cultural or traditional. Written as a belief that exists, never as a claim that it works

Country comparison tables include an evidence column. Treatments with evidence behind them should not read at the same weight as household lore.

We do not invent country examples

Country sections are written only from sources verified in advance. We never manufacture a country's practice to fill out a comparison. If the evidence for a country is thin, that country is left out of the article.

Revisions

Every article shows its last updated date. Health topics are reviewed every six months.

Corrections

If something is factually wrong, tell us through the community. We check it, fix it, and update the date on the article.

What comes next

Health articles will carry a named medical reviewer. The slot is already reserved in the article template.