Editorial policy

What we publish

We write from sources a reader can check and that we opened ourselves (ACOG, the NHS, NIH and MedlinePlus, the CDC, The Menopause Society, NICE, peer-reviewed studies), link them where each fact is used, give no treatment advice, and correct what we get wrong.

A page answers its question in its first lines, then goes into detail. We say what we know, what we do not, and how we know it, and when sources disagree we show both sides.

What we do not publish

We do not invent people, quotes, numbers or experiences. We do not give medical, legal or financial advice: for those we point to professionals and official sources. We do not publish paid content.

Health facts and their sources

Every health fact links to a page we opened ourselves: the NHS, the National Institute on Aging and MedlinePlus, the CDC, ACOG, The Menopause Society, NICE, or a study on PubMed or with a DOI. If we cannot link a fact to one of those, we leave it out. When we quote public discussions we say they are people's opinions, not facts we verified.

We give no treatment advice. We do not recommend hormone therapy, a medicine, a dose or a supplement, and we do not tell anyone to start or stop one. Where a health service sets out treatment options, we link that page and suggest the questions to take to your doctor.

No page claims a medical reviewer. Our writer works from the sources above and the editors check each page against them. We describe how bad a symptom is as mild, moderate or severe.

Products and apps are described only from their makers' own pages, never ranked, scored or compared. Nothing on this site is ranked, and there are no gift-idea or shopping lists.

Updates

Pages that depend on prices, rules or official guidance show the date we last checked them, and we revisit them when the facts change.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix the page and say what changed. Send us the correction with its source.