Medical review policy
Every clinical sentence on this site comes from a regulator source and is reviewed by a named professional before it is published.
In short
Clinical information on MedsAcross, such as uses, side effects and storage, is written from regulator sources like FDA labels and EMA product information and is approved by a named medical reviewer before publication. Pages show separate last reviewed and last updated dates, return to review at least every 12 months and carry no reviewer byline until a review is complete.
Where clinical text comes from
- US prescribing information from FDA labels, published through openFDA and DailyMed
- EU product information and assessment reports from the European Medicines Agency, credited to the EMA
- Essential medicine status recorded as a fact, never copied text
- Clinical text lives on the molecule page. Product pages show a short summary next to their own supply data.
Who reviews it
Reviewers are pharmacists and physicians with a public profile that shows their qualifications and registration number. A page shows a reviewer's name only after that reviewer has approved it.
Meet our medical reviewersThe review workflow
Every clinical page moves through these states, and each change is logged with the person and the date.
- 1Draft
- 2Medical review
- 3Changes requested
- 4Approved
- 5Scheduled
- 6Published
- 7Review due
- 8Archived
Review cycle
Every reviewed page returns to the review queue after 12 months, or at once when its underlying data changes, for example a new label or a safety update.
AI drafts
AI tools may help draft clinical text. A draft always goes to the review queue and is never published directly. The reviewer checks it line by line against the cited source.
The dates you see
Last reviewed is the date a named reviewer approved the clinical content. Last updated is the date anything on the page changed, such as availability or documents. Both are shown and both are written into the page's structured data.
What we never publish
- Cure claims or promotional health claims
- Dosing advice for an individual patient
- A reviewer byline on a page nobody has reviewed
- Copied text from sources whose licence does not allow it
Report an error
If you find a mistake on any page, tell us. Choose the topic for reporting an error on a page, name the page and describe the problem. A reviewer checks every report.
Questions about our content?
Our medical team answers questions about sources and review status.