Editorial policy

Joi Frontier Health News covers health research, which means a summary that drifts from its source can mislead someone about their own health. These are the rules we hold ourselves to. They are not aspirational: the same policy is given to every model in our pipeline as a binding instruction, and the checks below are enforced in code, not left to judgement.

Evidence comes first

• Primary evidence and medical accuracy take priority over traffic, watch time, ad yield and sponsors.
• We distinguish completed results from protocols, animal studies from human evidence, and association from causation — in the article text, not only in a label.
• We never invent sample sizes, absolute benefits, endpoints, follow-up, study limitations or citations. Where the source does not say, the article says it is unknown rather than filling the gap.
• Shortening and translating must preserve the population studied, the comparison made, and any limitation that changes what the finding means.

What we will not publish

• Personalised diagnoses or recommendations to change treatment. We describe research; we do not advise you.
• Fear, guaranteed outcomes, or cure claims used as hooks. If a headline only works by overstating the finding, the headline is wrong.
• Illustrations that depict the thing a story concerns — the substance in a story about substance use, or food or a body in a story about eating disorders, body image or weight.

How AI is used, and where it stops

AI drafts plain-language summaries, headlines and tags from source material. It is a drafting tool, and we are explicit about its limits.

Most stories require a human editor to approve them before publication. A story may be approved automatically only when all of the following hold: a model other than the one that drafted it has confirmed every claim against the fetched source text, the English and Korean versions agree with each other, the story carries no risk flag, and it needs no crisis resources. Anything else waits for a person. AI review notes are aids to that person, never a substitute for them.

Source text, quoted material and analytics labels are treated as reference data, never as instructions to the system.

Sourcing and attribution

We work from trusted public sources — PubMed and the NIH, the FDA, ClinicalTrials.gov, WHO, and university and hospital research — and from reputable medical news that links back to the underlying work. Every article credits and links the reporting it draws on.

The writing on this site is our own: our summary, our evidence label, our takeaways and caveats. The research and the original reporting belong to the people credited on each article, and our structured data records that relationship rather than blurring it.

Risk and crisis handling

Stories touching self-harm, suicide, overdose or substance use are flagged and carry crisis resources appropriate to that topic, chosen so the number shown fits the story rather than a generic default. Flagged stories are never approved automatically.

Corrections

We correct factual errors promptly after checking them against the source. When a correction materially changes an article we update the text and preserve the original source link. Minor wording, spelling, formatting or translation fixes may be made without a separate note. To report an error, email news@szupia.net — see contact.

Advertising and independence

Advertising must be clearly separate from editorial content. We do not solicit ad clicks, and we do not infer health audiences for advertising purposes. Advertisers have no influence over what we cover, which sources we use, how we summarise them, or the evidence labels we apply. Sponsored content is labelled where it appears.

Performance data can inform how we present an article. It cannot change the evidence, remove a caveat, or bypass medical review.

Not medical advice

Joi Frontier Health News is for information and encouragement. It is not medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Please talk with a qualified healthcare professional about your own health. This publication is produced by Szupia, Inc.