PS UK Health Reporting Process

PS UK aims to help you make sense of the overwhelming amount of health-related information online. We cut through the confusing jargon and offer expert-backed knowledge on an array of topics, whether you're looking to fact-check the latest wellness trend circulating on social media, need straightforward information about a health concern, or want to read personal health experiences.

When it comes to your wellbeing, we know how important it is to be able to trust the information you're getting. We take our health reporting seriously. Here's what we do to ensure the accuracy of everything we publish.

PS UK relies on trusted medical professionals, medical journals, and health organisations to create our content, but the information is not intended to serve as medical advice. Readers should always consult their doctors regarding their health and before beginning any course of medical treatment.

We ground all of our health, nutrition, and fitness reporting in proper sourcing from a combination of authoritative experts, reputable organisations, legitimate peer-reviewed studies, and firsthand experience (when applicable). While we strive to keep our content updated, older articles may contain out-of-date information or incomplete sourcing. Please email [email protected] if you come across any inaccuracies.

Experts: At PS UK, we collaborate with experts who we believe are most qualified to speak to the specific issue we're covering. We carefully vet our sources to ensure they're credentialed and up to date on the latest developments in their area of expertise. We always use unpaid, unaffiliated, and trusted medical experts.

Organisations: We also look to reputable health organisations to source information. We make clear what information comes from these sources.

Studies: We use only recent medical and scientific studies in our health reporting. We aim to only draw information from studies published within the last five to eight years. In our articles, we make clear when a study uses human or animal subjects, whether the sample size is small or large, and whether it was conducted on a particular population. We link out to the study we're referencing whenever possible.

Our editorial team is made up of journalists with, collectively, decades of experience. We work with writers we trust, and our writers and editors carefully edit and fact-check each article to ensure it's being held to rigorous journalistic standards.

We aim to avoid working with experts who are affiliated with specific brands, and if we do, we disclose their relevant affiliation in the article. When covering a new or trending health and wellness topic with minimal reputable or publicly available scientific research or data, we are candid about the limitations in our reporting and aim to provide a clear takeaway in covering said topic. We also strive to take care to research and write accurately about a trend's origins.

While our writers are permitted to write about products or services they've received for free, we require that they clearly disclose this in the article. We also do not guarantee coverage, or positive coverage, in exchange for free products or services, and make clear that any review we write will be honest and ethically sound. You can read more about Vox Media's Editorial Ethics & Guidelines here.

At PS UK, we're committed to reporting on information that pertains to all of our readers, including people of different races, sexual orientations, genders, abilities, sizes, and socioeconomic statuses.

When we're writing about a health issue, we note whether certain groups are more affected than others. When a source gives advice or suggestions, we ask how that advice can be tailored to different people; for instance, if an exercise can be modified to include people of different abilities or sizes.

At PS UK, it's our mission to show respect toward all people and treat them with dignity. As such, we're committed to using inclusive, conscientious language, which means not using racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, ageist, fatphobic, or classist language or terminology. This extends to the images we use alongside articles and their social media extensions; we aim to show a diversity of races, ethnicities, sizes, body types, abilities, religions, gender identities, and sexual orientations when applicable.