Medical content policy

Medical pages are written for men deciding whether and how to seek care, in plain language, and they describe conditions and treatments rather than promise results. They do not claim that any treatment will work for you, and they avoid promissory language of every kind. Figures and clinical statements are taken from published sources, never estimated. Pages about a condition describe only the systems of medicine the practice actually uses for it.

• No outcome promises and no comparative claims about the practice.
• Traditional explanations in Ayurveda and homeopathy are labelled as tradition, not presented as biomedical mechanism.
• The clinic is described as it is; nothing about doctors, credentials or reviews is invented.

Every clinical figure carries a number linked to its source in the reference list at the foot of the page. Sources are peer-reviewed papers, identified by their DOI or PubMed record, clinical practice guidelines from professional bodies, public health services and Indian statutes and regulators. A reference must lead to the specific document, never to a website's home page.

Where a page describes the evidence for an intervention, it uses one of seven descriptive labels. The labels describe the kind of evidence that exists; they are not a score, and they do not predict how any one person will respond. They borrow the logic of formal evidence-rating systems such as GRADE, which judge the certainty of evidence and the strength of a recommendation separately^[1].

• Guideline-supported: recommended in clinical practice guidelines from a professional body, on the basis of trial evidence.
• Supported by clinical evidence: backed by trials or systematic reviews, where no professional body has published a guideline on it.
• Evidence varies by cause: the symptom has several causes, and how well a treatment is supported depends on which one is found.
• Limited or mixed: some controlled trials exist, but they are small, few, of uncertain quality or reach different conclusions.
• Limited direct evidence: the treatment itself has been studied little, even where related questions have been studied well.
• Traditional practice: used within a system of medicine on the basis of its own texts and experience rather than controlled trials.
• Insufficient: there is not enough reliable evidence to say whether it works.

Statements about efficacy, safety, medicines, warning signs and referral are drafted for review by a doctor before they are relied on, and remain marked as drafts in the site's records until then. A page shows who wrote or reviewed it, and when, only where that has actually been recorded. Where no review has been recorded, the page makes no review claim.

If you find a mistake, an outdated figure or a broken reference, please report it through the support ticket form on this site, naming the page and the sentence. Reports are read and checked against the source. When a correction is made, the page's last-updated date changes with it.

• Name the page and quote the sentence.
• Say what you believe is wrong and, if you can, give a source.
• Personal medical questions belong in a consultation, not an error report.