Medical review policy
Reviewed beforeit's published.
How health content earns the right to be published and indexed — and how we keep its review status honest and visible.
Why we gate publication
Health content carries real-world consequences. To avoid presenting unreviewed material as settled guidance, we treat clinical review as a publication gate rather than an afterthought. Content is honest about its own status at every stage.
The review lifecycle
Each condition guide and educational article moves through these states:
- Preview:written from public, cited sources and labeled with a visible "preview" banner. Preview pages are marked
noindexso search engines do not surface them. - In review: a qualified reviewer checks the content for accuracy, balance, and safe framing.
- Published: on sign-off, the page records the reviewer and a last-reviewed date, and becomes eligible for search indexing.
This lifecycle is enforced in our system, not just on paper: a page is only indexable once it is both published and has a recorded reviewer.
What review covers — and doesn't
Review focuses on whether content is accurate, current, balanced, and framed so it points people back to their care team. Reviewed content is still general education.
Review does not turn any page into personal medical advice, and it never establishes that a reader is a fit for a specific trial — that is always determined by the study team. See our Disclaimer.
Transparency
Where a page has been reviewed, the reviewer and review date are shown on the page itself. Where it has not, the preview banner says so plainly. We would rather show honest review status than imply more authority than a page has earned.
Related
How we write andsource content.
Review is one half of the story; sourcing and versioning are the other. See our editorial standards.