What these standards cover
They apply to every page on this site that explains health science: the explainers, the topic pages, the domain pages and the Newsroom. They are Mynd Healthcare's own rules for itself. They are not an external certification and the site does not claim one.
Where facts come from
A factual claim about disease, medicine, tests or statistics is written only from a source that was opened and read: a regulator, a public health agency, a registry, a peer-reviewed paper or a guideline. The source is named on the page with its link, the date it was published or updated, and the date Mynd read it. Where a claim has no source that was read, it is not written as a fact.
Preference goes to primary and official sources: the World Health Organization, national regulators and registries, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed and the original paper. Secondary sources such as news articles and encyclopedias are not used as the basis for a claim.
How pages are written
Each page answers one question. It gives a short plain-language summary first, then the key points, then the detail, then where the idea breaks down or is uncertain, then what a reader could ask next. Plain-language text and clinician-level detail are kept apart so each can be checked on its own.
Numbers are quoted as the source gives them, with the year and the population they refer to. A figure that is only an illustration is labelled illustrative. Percentages are not rounded in a way that changes the meaning.
Writing is plain. Terms are explained the first time they appear. Claims are as strong as the evidence and no stronger: a source that reports an association is not written up as a cause.
Status labels
Published means the page is finished against these standards. In development means the page exists in the plan but is not yet written; it contains no study material and the label is never hidden. Each published page shows when it was last reviewed. Where no named reviewer has checked it, the page says reviewer: none rather than implying one.
What the site does not do
It does not give personal medical advice, rank treatments for an individual, take paid placement, or accept payment to change what a page says. It does not publish anonymous patient stories or testimonials. It does not name hospitals, products, trials or people unless a source it has read names them.
Reporting a problem
If something is wrong or out of date, write to hello@myndlabs.tech with the page and the issue. See the corrections policy for what happens next.