About HealthJournalHub
Three things shape everything on this site — we read the study, not the summary; we name the limitations before the takeaway; and we never let a commercial relationship decide what gets covered.
How a story gets made
Every article starts from primary literature, a clinical guideline, or a regulator document. Not from a trend, not from a competitor’s traffic, not from an email a PR firm sent us at 6am. If the underlying evidence is one small trial with 22 participants, the piece says that in the first three paragraphs instead of burying it in the last one.
Reporters draft, and an editor challenges the claims before anything is published. Claims that cannot be traced to a source get cut, not softened.
If a finding can’t survive an honest description of its own methodology, it doesn’t deserve a headline.
Editorial standards
We grade the evidence behind each claim and label it visibly on the page, so you can tell in two seconds whether you are reading settled science or an interesting first signal.
| Label | What sits behind it | How much weight to give it |
|---|---|---|
| Strong | Multiple randomised trials, or a systematic review with consistent results | Reasonable basis for changing what you do |
| Moderate | One well-run trial, or consistent large observational data | Worth knowing, worth discussing with a clinician |
| Limited | Small trials, short follow-up, surrogate outcomes | Interesting, not actionable |
| Emerging | Animal work, mechanistic studies, conference abstracts | A hypothesis wearing a headline |
Rules we don’t bend
- No invented citations, ever. Every reference links to a real, published, findable source.
- No affiliate links inside editorial copy. Advertising is labelled and sits outside the article body.
- No sponsor gets to review, approve, or preview a story about their category.
- No cure claims, no miracle framing, no before-and-after photography.
- Numbers get absolute risk, not just relative risk. A 50% increase in a rare event is still a rare event.
Who does the work
The HealthJournalHub newsroom researches, writes, and edits every article. Questions about how a story was made go to the newsroom, and corrections are handled in public on the article itself.
How we pay for it
Display advertising. That’s it. No sponsored posts, no paid guest articles, no supplement brand partnerships, no link insertions, whatever the offer. Advertising is sold as inventory, not influence, and every ad slot is fixed-size and labelled.
We do not accept paid placements or guest posts, and a follow-up email will not change that. Genuine tips and expert commentary are always welcome: contact the newsroom.
Corrections
When we get something wrong we fix it, date the fix, and say what changed at the bottom of the article. Substantive corrections stay visible permanently. Silent edits to change meaning are not a thing we do.
Spotted an error? Tell us and include the paragraph and the source you think we misread. Those emails get read first.
Independence, in practice
No investor, parent company, or advertiser has editorial control. Staff do not hold positions in the supplement, pharmaceutical, or medical device companies they cover, and any unavoidable conflict is disclosed in the article itself.
Health information is not a neutral commodity. People make real decisions based on what they read, sometimes instead of seeing a doctor. That is the reason for the caution, the labels, and the visible sources on every piece.