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We are a news publication covering medicine and the health industry. We report what researchers, regulators, clinicians and companies say and do. We do not practise medicine, we do not know your circumstances, and nothing here is written for or about any individual patient.
Reporting is not a recommendation
That we cover a drug, device, procedure or trial says it is newsworthy. It does not say it is safe, effective, appropriate or available for you. A result that holds for a study population may not hold for any particular person, and a treatment approved in one country may be unapproved, restricted or unavailable in another.
Research findings
Studies we report are the work of the researchers who conducted them, and we describe them as they stand at the time of writing. Findings are provisional by nature: early-stage results are frequently not replicated, preprints have not been peer reviewed, and conclusions change as evidence accumulates. An article reflects what was known on the day it was published and is not updated as the field moves unless the story itself is revisited.
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Where we mention doses, indications, contraindications or outcomes, we are reporting what a source document says — a label, a trial protocol, a regulatory decision. This is never a prescribing instruction. Prescribing information is jurisdiction-specific, changes over time, and belongs to the regulator and the manufacturer, not to us.
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