Medical review policy

How medical pages are written today

Our editorial team writes every page. For medical content we use primary sources and cite them on the page:

• FDA labels for indications, doses, side effects, warnings, storage and missed doses, from DailyMed or accessdata.fda.gov.
• Peer-reviewed trials for results, reported as trial averages, never as a promise of what one person will get.
• Government data from FDA, CMS, CDC and the Census Bureau.

We follow a few hard rules. We do not give dosing instructions beyond what the FDA label states. We never give mixing or reconstitution steps for compounded vials. We say plainly that compounded drugs are not FDA-approved and that FDA does not review them for safety, effectiveness or quality ^[1]. You can see these rules at work on pages like tirzepatide side effects, Wegovy dosage and compounded semaglutide.

Why pages say "Medical review: pending"

A review line should mean a real person with a real license checked the page. We will not put a name on a page that person has not read, and we will not use stock photos or made-up credentials. So until a named clinician reviews a page, it shows: "Medical review: pending. A licensed clinician has not yet reviewed this page." A page will say it was "medically reviewed" only after a licensed clinician has read and checked that page. Today no page on this site has been reviewed.

How a reviewer will be added

We are looking for a clinician who holds an active US license in good standing and whose training fits the topics they review. Adding a reviewer will work this way:

1. We check the clinician's license on the public lookup of the state board that issued it.
2. The clinician tells us in writing about any ties to companies we cover, such as pay, equity or consulting work, and we publish those ties.
3. The clinician reads each page they review in full and checks its medical facts against the FDA label and the cited sources. We fix anything they flag.
4. Only then does that page change its review line from "Medical review: pending" to a line that names the reviewer, their credentials and the review date.
5. We name the reviewer on this policy and on our about page. Pages the reviewer has not read keep the pending line.

If we later change the medical facts on a reviewed page, we will ask the reviewer to check it again.

What a medical reviewer checks, and what they do not

The reviewer checks medical accuracy only: drug facts against the label, safety warnings, how trial results are described and whether a page could mislead a reader about a health decision.

The reviewer does not choose or approve verdicts, rankings, prices, affiliate links or sponsored placements. Those follow our editorial standards and the rules on how we make money. A reviewed page is not an endorsement of any provider on it.

When we update medical facts

When an FDA label, safety notice or major trial changes a fact on our site, we update the page and its date. If you spot a medical error, email contact@wellchosenhealth.com with the page address and the source that shows the error. Corrections are handled under our corrections policy.