How we write
Health content is only worth publishing if it is accurate, honest about its limits, and traceable to real evidence. These are the standards behind every page in the Gale health library.
Gale's content explains what a condition, medication, or kind of care is — in the third person, describing the general picture. It does not diagnose, prescribe, or tell any individual what to do for their situation. For care decisions, the page points back to a licensed clinician. This is a function, not a disclaimer: the writing itself stays educational.
Each empirical or numeric statement maps to a real, verifiable source — a clinical guideline, a peer-reviewed study, or an official reference, linked by DOI, PubMed ID, or official URL. If a fact cannot be sourced, it is removed, not approximated. There are no invented statistics and no plausible-looking citations.
Gale's health pages carry no third-party advertising and no third-party analytics or ad pixels. Reading about a symptom or a medication should never quietly reveal a health concern to an ad network. Any measurement Gale does is first-party and server-side, with identifying details stripped.
Gale is in a pre-commercial phase. The educational content is real and cited; the patient and provider data shown in the product is synthetic, and every surface says so. No real patient record, claim, or payment touches the system until the required agreements are in place. See Get help now if you are in crisis.
Content is written by the Gale editorial team and grounded in the cited sources listed on each page. As licensed clinicians join Gale, each guide carries a named, credentialed medical reviewer — and that reviewer is a real clinician you can actually see, not a contracted byline. Until a page carries a named reviewer, it states that it was written by the editorial team and grounded in its sources.
If something is wrong or out of date, it gets fixed and the page's updated date changes. Sources are re-checked over time; dead links are removed rather than left to rot.