We sell nothing and take no pay for placement
HealthVetted does not manufacture, sell, or hold inventory in any product we cover. We earn affiliate commissions when readers buy through some of our links, but commissions never change a ranking, a score, or whether a product is recommended. A product with no affiliate relationship routinely outranks one that pays us. The full money trail is in our affiliate disclosure.
Primary sources, not press releases
Clinical and pricing claims are built from primary sources: FDA labeling and approval documents, peer-reviewed studies indexed in PubMed, and .gov / .edureferences. Where a brand’s own material is the only source for a figure (for example, a self-pay price), we say so and date it. We do not cite marketing copy as evidence, and we link the underlying study or document wherever one exists so you can check it yourself.
AI-assisted drafting, human and clinical review
We use AI tooling to assemble first drafts, structure data tables, and keep pricing and availability current at scale. Nothing publishes on the strength of a model alone: every clinical claim is checked against the primary sources above and linked inline through our review process before it ships. If a claim cannot be traced to a verifiable source, it does not run. We think disclosing this is more honest than pretending a newsroom of dozens hand-types every page.
One transparent rubric, published in full
Rankings come from a single six-axis rubric — effectiveness, safety, value, accessibility, user experience, and trust — with per-page weights published openly, down to the source-code constants, on our methodology page. The rubric is the only input to position. Editor overrides are rare, always favor regulatory safety, and are logged.
We date our claims and fix what we get wrong
Prices are verified monthly, FDA labeling changes trigger a re-review within seven days, and featured products are re-reviewed at least quarterly. When we get something wrong, we correct it and note the change on the affected review rather than editing silently. Flag an error to [email protected] (clinical issues: [email protected]) and we respond within five business days.
If a recommendation would change because of who pays us, it is not a recommendation we will publish.