Haloscan publishes articles about thyroid conditions. This page says who writes them, what is checked, and what we will not claim. It exists because health information should come with its provenance attached.
Every article carries a named author and a date. There is no "Haloscan Team" byline.
Most are written by Qassi Gaba, who built the app and is a software developer rather than a clinician. That is stated on every article, at the bottom, in the same words each time.
Some articles need clinical judgement and some do not.
A comparison of thyroid apps does not. A guide to what your lab's preparation instructions mean does not. An explanation of what a TSH result implies for your treatment does, and that is the line.
Where an article needs it, a named clinician reviews it before publication and their name and credentials appear on the page and in its structured data. Where one does not, no reviewer is named.
We do not name a reviewer who did not review. Implying a clinician's endorsement is worse than publishing without one, and a reader has no way to check the difference, which is exactly why it must not be done.
The first two are the same rule the app follows. Haloscan describes what your data shows and generates questions you can take to a clinician. It does not infer causes and does not recommend treatment. An article that crossed that line would contradict the product it sits beside.
Claims are linked to a primary source where one exists: a guideline body, a regulator, a lab's own published guidance, or a peer-reviewed paper. Links go to the source, not to another article about the source.
Anything we name, we link. An organisation, a study, a lab, a competing app: the first mention is the link. Describing a product without linking it asks you to take our word for it, and on a comparison written by somebody whose own app is in the comparison, that is not a fair thing to ask.
Links sit in the sentences that need them rather than only in a list at the bottom.
Numbers that go stale carry the date we checked them. Review counts, prices and feature lists are true on the day they are written and wrong within months.
Where evidence is contested, we say so rather than picking the side that suits the product.
A script checks most of this before anything is published: how many sources an article has, whether they appear in the prose, whether everything it names is linked, and whether every URL still resolves. It cannot check that a page says what we claim it says. A person reads them for that.
Articles carry the date they were published. Material changes are dated.
If something is wrong, tell us at qassi@haloscan.co. We will correct it and note that we did. A silent edit to a health article is its own kind of dishonesty.
Drafting may be assisted by AI. Every article is read and edited by a named person who takes responsibility for it, and nothing is published automatically.
This is stated because it is true of a great deal of published health writing and is rarely admitted. The tool used to write a sentence matters less than whether a person stands behind it, but you are entitled to know both.