Editorial Policy

How we write about health

EbbWave covers a health topic, so we hold our content to a clear standard.

Sourcing. Every health claim is sourced to peer-reviewed research or a recognised public-health body (for example NIDA, the CDC, or Cochrane). Sources are listed at the foot of each article and marked up as machine-readable citations.

Authorship and review. Articles carry a named author. Our editorial team are writers and editors, not clinicians. Any article that makes clinical claims is medically reviewed by a named, credentialed clinician before it shows a “Medically reviewed by” line or any medical-authority markup. Until an article has a real reviewer, it carries an editor byline and the standard medical disclaimer — we never imply a review that did not happen.

Honesty about evidence. Where evidence is emerging rather than established, we say so. We do not exaggerate certainty.

Corrections. We date every article’s last update and correct errors promptly.

Crisis safety. Crisis resources are free, indexed, region-appropriate, and shown on every article — never behind a paywall.

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