Medical Review Policy

Who reviews our content

Our medical reviewer is Dr. Hena A. Ansari, MBBS, MD (Pathology), Professor, Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), Aligarh, India. You can read more on her reviewer profile.

Articles are researched and written by the HWVibes Editorial Team and edited by our founder and editor, Mohammad Faisal Khan, who is not a doctor. Medical review adds a qualified second check on selected pages. It does not replace our own editorial responsibility for everything we publish.

Which pages are reviewed

Dr. Hena reviews selected articles, not every page on HWVibes. We decide the order of review by medical risk: the more a page could affect someone’s health decisions, the higher it sits on the list.

• First: kidney-related content (such as kidney stones and meal planning with kidney disease) and blood-sugar-related content.
• Next: other articles that discuss symptoms, deficiencies, supplements, devices or when to seek care.
• Lower priority: low-risk content such as general habit ideas, some recipes and site news.

When a new health article is selected for review, our aim is to have it reviewed before or shortly after publication. Pages awaiting review do not show a review box until the review is complete.

What the reviewer checks

• Accuracy: medical statements are checked against current, reputable sources.
• Safety framing: cautions for higher-risk groups, such as people who are pregnant, managing diabetes or kidney disease, or taking medication, are clear.
• When to get help: red-flag and when-to-get-help sections are present, correct and easy to find.
• No personal advice: anything that reads like personal medical advice is removed or reworded.
• No misleading claims: absolute, exaggerated or alarmist wording, and any implied guarantee, is corrected.
• No dosing or treatment instructions: the page does not tell readers what dose to take or how to treat a condition.

Where the reviewer asks for a change, we make it before the review box is added. If we cannot resolve a point, we remove or rewrite that part of the page.

What review does not mean

• It is not a personal recommendation for you or anyone else.
• It is not clinical care and does not create a doctor–patient relationship.
• It is not an endorsement of any product, brand, ad or linked website.
• It is not a guarantee that a page is complete, error-free or right for your situation.

Even a reviewed page is general information only. Please do not take any medicine or supplement, change your diet, or try any exercise, remedy, device or procedure without first consulting your own doctor. To the fullest extent permitted by law, HWVibes, its operator and its reviewer are not responsible for outcomes if you act on information from the site. See our Medical Disclaimer.

In an emergency, call your local emergency number (India 112 or ambulance 108, US 911, UK 999).

How review is shown

A reviewed article shows a review box with the reviewer’s name and a “Last reviewed” date. If a page has no review box, it has not been expert reviewed.

Pages can show two different dates:

• Last updated is the date we last edited the page for any reason.
• Last reviewed is the date the medical reviewer last checked the page.

If we make a material change to a reviewed page, it goes back to the reviewer. Small edits, such as typos or layout changes, can update the “Last updated” date without a new review.

Re-review schedule

Our aim is to send a reviewed article back for review:

• whenever its medical content changes materially, and
• at least every 12–18 months, even if nothing has changed, so that it still reflects current guidance.

If important new evidence or guidance appears sooner, we aim to update and re-review the affected pages sooner.

Independence

Medical review is never sponsored. Advertisers, affiliate partners and sponsors do not pay for reviews, cannot request them and do not see pages before they are published. Dr. Hena has no financial interest in our ads or links. Read our Advertising Policy and Affiliate Disclosure.

Sources we rely on

We and our reviewer check content against reputable sources, such as:

• government and public health bodies, including the CDC, FDA, NIH and MedlinePlus, WHO and NHS;
• major medical centres, such as Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic;
• peer-reviewed research, usually found through PubMed;
• professional bodies and university public-health schools.

Our Editorial Policy explains how we choose and use sources.

How to report a concern

If you think a page, reviewed or not, contains an error or unsafe wording, please tell us. Email contact@hwvibes.com with the subject “Correction” and include the page link, the sentence concerned and, if possible, a source. Safety-related concerns are handled first and, where needed, passed to our reviewer. See our Corrections Policy.

Contact

Email contact@hwvibes.com or use our contact form. We usually reply within 3–7 business days. We cannot give personal medical advice, and our reviewer cannot answer individual health questions through this site.