Editorial policy

How research is done

A page starts from the question a reader actually has, usually a result, a test, or a claim. The writer checks the current guideline or manual before secondary articles. Numbers that can drift, especially semen reference limits, are stored once and reused by the decoder and the tables so the site does not carry two versions. Direct quotations are avoided. Each health page lists the works it depends on.

Source order

• WHO laboratory methods and reference limits for semen.
• NICE NG257 for UK assessment and treatment recommendations.
• NHS pages for the public route into UK care.
• AUA/ASRM guidelines for US professional practice, including testosterone.
• HFEA for UK licensed treatment and sperm storage.
• Cochrane and other systematic reviews before single small trials.
• A single trial only for the narrow claim it can support, as with the zinc and folic acid trial.

Workflow

Each document has a status: draft, editorial-reviewed, medical-review-pending, medically-reviewed, or published. Health pages in this first release are medical-review-pending. They are public so the information architecture and the sourced explanations exist. The status is printed on the page. It is not hidden in a CMS field.

Commercial separation

An affiliate relationship, if one is later approved, cannot decide that a supplement has moderate evidence or that a clinic is listed first. Featured placements will be labelled. The organic clinic sort ignores the featured flag. See the affiliate disclosure.

Automation

Research assistance may draft and maintain structured pages. The point is to keep reference limits, citations and directory facts consistent. It is not to publish a page because a keyword permutation exists. Location pages require verified providers. Reference-limit changes are never auto-published.