Editorial Standards & Quality Guidelines
ZayedMD is a physician-led publication about clinical AI, healthcare
technology, and evidence-based medicine. These standards govern new articles,
material updates, translations, archive refreshes, corrections, images, and
commercial relationships.
Publication standard
New and materially updated medical articles are published only after
recorded physician review of the exact version. Review covers claim accuracy,
source quality, benefit and risk framing, patient-safety language, and the
absence of unsupported treatment advice.
The 12-year archive is preserved, but preservation is not approval. An
archive source must pass body access, ownership, duplicate, medical, evidence,
SEO, image, and exact-version approval gates before it is republished or used
as the basis of a refreshed article.
Research and sources
Clinical and regulatory claims prioritize primary research, systematic
reviews, current clinical guidance, trial registries, and official agencies
such as the FDA, NIH, CDC, WHO, and relevant medical societies. News reports
can establish context but do not replace the underlying evidence.
References must resolve and support the nearby claim. Drafts with citation
placeholders, unverifiable references, unresolved medical-risk flags, or
pending physician approval remain drafts.
AI-assisted work
AI tools may assist with news discovery, research organization, initial
drafting, translation, SEO analysis, and image creation. AI output is not an
approval. Medical claims and references must be checked against reliable
sources, and the final artifact must receive human editorial and physician
review before publication.
Images must pass relevance, rights, privacy, and medical-visual safety
checks. Generated or stock-style imagery must not imply a diagnosis, treatment
result, real patient, institutional endorsement, or device authorization that
the article does not establish.
What we don’t publish
- Personalized diagnosis, treatment, or emergency advice.
- Medical claims without adequate supporting evidence.
- Fabricated, unresolved, or misleading references.
- Promotional treatment copy presented as independent education.
- Sponsored material disguised as editorial content.
- Drafts without recorded approval for the exact public version.
Corrections and withdrawals
Minor typographic corrections can be fixed directly. Material factual or
medical corrections receive an update note. Content with a potentially unsafe
error is removed from public view, corrected, reviewed again, and republished
only when it meets the publication standard. Use the
contact form to report a concern.
Advertising, affiliates, and sponsorship
Display advertising may be activated only after account, consent, and
placement safeguards are verified. Affiliate relationships, when used, are
disclosed near the relevant link. Sponsored content is labeled clearly,
follows the same medical review standard, and cannot purchase a favorable
clinical conclusion.
English and Arabic publishing
Arabic translations require separate review of medical meaning,
terminology, safety language, references, and the exact translated version.
The English approval does not automatically approve the Arabic artifact.