Editorial Standards and Evidence Policy

Not all sources carry equal weight. When an article makes a claim about a medication, evidence is ranked in this order:

1. FDA labeling and regulators. Approved indications, contraindications, boxed warnings, dosing, and regulatory status come from FDA prescribing information, FDA safety communications, and equivalent regulatory authorities.
2. Clinical guidelines from accountable bodies. Recommendations from medical societies and public health agencies that publish their methods and stand behind their conclusions.
3. Primary trials and systematic reviews. Randomized controlled trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses in peer-reviewed journals, read for what they actually measured rather than for what a headline said about them.

Secondary sources such as news coverage, commercial sites, and other health publishers may be cited for context, pricing, or availability. They never carry a consequential medical claim on their own. If a claim matters to a treatment decision, it traces to a regulator, a guideline, or primary research.

A citation is only useful if it is real and says what the article claims it says. Under our current standards, every citation on a page that is rebuilt or updated is machine-verified against its source. References indexed in PubMed are matched against the PubMed record. Cited URLs are resolved live to confirm they exist and point where the article says they point.

A reference that cannot be verified is removed. When a reference is removed, the claim it supported does not remain standing at full strength. The claim is rewritten with appropriate hedging or removed along with it.

This verification program is ongoing and is being applied across the library as pages are rebuilt and updated. Pages that have not yet been through it are in the queue. The date shown on each article reflects its most recent evidence check.

Articles state their clinical review status plainly. The HealthRX.com Editorial Team byline is an editorial byline, not a clinician. A page is described as medically or clinically reviewed only when a separate, named reviewer with verifiable credentials has actually reviewed that page. Pending means pending. We do not describe a review that has not occurred, and a recent evidence-check date does not imply an independent clinical review.

Medical evidence is uneven, and articles say so. We distinguish what is established, what is plausible but unproven, and what is not established, and we label each accordingly. Where data does not exist, the article says the data does not exist. Gaps are never filled with invented figures. Volatile facts such as prices, availability, and regulatory status carry the date they were checked, because they change.

It is policy that HealthRX.com does not publish fabricated experts, fabricated credentials, fabricated testimonials, or fabricated statistics. A number appears on this site only when it can be traced to a source. A person appears on this site only when that person is real.

Editorial content is educational. It does not guarantee prescription approval, medical eligibility, insurance coverage, or dispensing. Commercial product pages and editorial medical articles are treated as separate surfaces with different review expectations, and commercial considerations do not decide what the medical library says about a treatment.

When we find an error, or a reader shows us one, we correct the page, update the modified date when the correction is material, and prioritize safety-related corrections above all other edits.

If you believe something on this site is wrong, we want to know. Report it to support@healthrx.com or through our contact page. Include the page URL and the claim in question, and we will check it against the source.