Medical Review Process

Guides, condition pages, and comparisons

These are narrative content — written to explain a topic, not just display data — so each one carries a byline: a named writer, and a named medical reviewer from our editorial board who checked it for accuracy before publication. You'll see both names, with a link to their credentials, at the top of the page, along with the date it was last reviewed.

Individual drug pages

RxHelp's 100+ individual antibiotic pages work differently, and we want to be direct about that rather than implying more than is true. These pages are built and checked against structured data pulled directly from FDA drug labeling (via the openFDA API and DailyMed), not written as narrative and signed off by a reviewer. Where FDA label data is available, the uses, warnings, contraindications, and interactions shown come from that official source, lightly formatted for readability rather than rewritten into different claims. Prices are checked against the pharmacy data described in our methodology.

We don't attach a named reviewer's byline to a structured-data page the way we do a written guide — that would overstate what actually happened to it before publication. The primary-source requirement (FDA/DailyMed) is the safeguard on these pages, not a clinical sign-off, and we'd rather say that plainly than dress up a sourcing discipline as something it isn't.

Why drug pages work differently

Antibiotic information changes slowly compared to, say, a specific dosing recommendation — indications, standard warnings, and interaction data drawn straight from FDA labeling are stable, citable facts. A clinical reviewer reading through a structured data table sourced directly from the FDA label isn't doing meaningfully different work than the primary-source requirement itself already does — so rather than attach a reviewer's name to work that amounts to re-confirming the source citation, we hold these pages to the primary-source requirement directly and say so plainly, instead of adding a byline that would suggest a different kind of check happened.

What to do if something looks wrong

If a warning, interaction, or price looks out of date or incorrect, please don't treat it as authoritative — check the "last updated" date on the page, cross-reference the linked source (usually DailyMed), and when in doubt, always defer to your pharmacist or prescriber over any consumer website, including this one.