Health content carries a byline and a review line because you are entitled to know who wrote it and who checked it. This page sets out what those lines mean here.
Who reviews
Clinical content is reviewed by a registered Australian medical practitioner with experience in menopause care. Every reviewed page names the reviewer, their credentials and the date of review.
What review involves
Review is not a glance. A reviewer checks:
- Every factual claim against a current source
- That figures, ages, timeframes and prevalence statements are accurate and current
- That nothing states or implies a diagnosis
- That no treatment is recommended to a reader whose history the page cannot know
- That the balance of the page reflects the balance of the evidence, including where the evidence is genuinely uncertain
- That serious symptoms are flagged with clear advice to seek care
- That the page is accurate for an Australian reader — guidance, subsidy arrangements and care pathways differ between countries
A page is not published as reviewed until the reviewer is satisfied.
How often
- Every page is re-reviewed at least every 24 months
- Pages about fast-moving areas are re-reviewed at least every 12 months
- Any page is re-reviewed immediately when relevant guidance changes, when a source is superseded, or when someone tells us something is wrong
The date on the page is the date of the last actual review, not the date the page was last touched. A typo fix does not reset it.
What our content does not do
It does not diagnose. Nothing here tells you what you have. Our symptom check reports what you told us, organised by category, and says so plainly.
It does not recommend treatment to you. Which treatment suits someone depends on their history, their other conditions, what else they take and what they want. A web page knows none of that. Those conversations belong with a doctor who has your history in front of them.
It does not name prescription medicines. Australian law prohibits advertising prescription-only medicines to the public, and that prohibition applies to websites. We describe conditions and symptoms; your doctor discusses treatments with you.
Sources
We work from Australian government health sources, Australian clinical bodies and peer-reviewed research, in that order of preference where they cover the same ground.
Principal sources include the Australian Department of Health, Jean Hailes for Women's Health, the Australasian Menopause Society, healthdirect and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
Where evidence is contested or thin, we say so rather than picking a side and presenting it as settled.
Independence
Clinical content is reviewed by a doctor for accuracy. Commercial decisions do not influence what a reviewer will approve, and a reviewer can refuse to sign off a page.
We take no payment from any manufacturer or supplier of medicines, and we carry no advertising.
We do sell consultations, and you should factor that in when reading anything we publish. Our editorial policy sets out how we keep the content side separate from the commercial side, and what we will not do.
Getting it wrong
If something here is inaccurate, tell us. Corrections are made promptly and, where the change is material, noted on the page.