Editorial and fact-checking policy

What we publish

Articles explain PCOS and nearby questions: symptoms, cycles, lifestyle context, metabolic topics, research, and the limits of personal tracking. They are educational. They are not personal medical advice.

How a draft is made

A scheduled job selects one open topic, retrieves sources, and only then asks Claude to outline, write, and list claims. The research step uses PubMed and a small set of public pages the pipeline has actually fetched. A model-written URL is not treated as a source.

Medical claims have to match a verbatim excerpt stored with the source. Unsupported claims, invented citations, broken sources, and misleading advice block publication even if a numerical quality score is high. That score is an internal editing aid. It is not a search ranking.

Who publishes

The default mode saves drafts for a person to edit and publish. Automatic publication stays off for clinical topics. The byline “Alula Learn” is the editorial desk. It is not a clinician. A reviewer name appears only when a real person with verified credentials has reviewed that article. We do not invent authors or reviewers.

Updates

The visible publication date stays put unless the article changes in a meaningful way. A refresh can sit beside the published text until an editor applies it. If a cited link later fails, the article is flagged for review and the citation stays in place.

What we will not claim

We do not say Alula diagnoses PCOS, predicts treatment outcomes, or offers clinically validated recommendations. We do not promise cures or guaranteed results, and we do not give doses or personal treatment plans.