Editorial & Clinical Review Policy

Every clinical article on this site is written or reviewed by a clinician practising at Aslam Clinic. Dr Hammad Aslam, MBBS (Diabetologist) is accountable for all of it. Each article names its reviewer and the date it was last read, so you can see how fresh the advice is rather than guessing from a publication date.

1. A topic is chosen because patients here ask about it — diabetes, blood pressure, dengue, typhoid, hepatitis, antibiotic use, pain that will not settle.
2. It is drafted against current guidance and against what is actually available and affordable in Pakistan. Advice that assumes a drug nobody stocks locally is not advice.
3. A clinician reviews it for accuracy, for safety, and for what it might cause a worried reader to do.
4. Red-flag symptoms are written in, with a plain instruction to seek care — never buried in a paragraph.
5. It is published with the reviewer's name, their qualifications and the review date.
6. It is re-read at least every 12 months, and sooner when guidance changes.

• No article tells you to start, stop or change a prescribed medicine. It tells you when to ask a doctor.
• No cures, no miracle claims, and no fear used as a device to get you through the door.
• No brand is promoted in an article. Where a medicine has to be named, the generic name comes first.
• Nothing on this site is sponsored. No manufacturer or distributor pays for coverage or placement, and there is no advertising.
• Uncertainty is stated as uncertainty. Where the evidence is genuinely mixed, the article says so instead of picking a side for readability.
• Where our advice differs from a national guideline, we say why.

We use software to help with drafting, structure and language — the same way a spelling checker helps. It never has the last word.

• No clinical claim is published on a machine's say-so. A named clinician verifies every one against a source.
• No article is published without a human clinical review, whatever produced the first draft.
• The reviewer named on an article read it. The byline is a statement of responsibility, not a decoration.

We get things wrong and we would rather hear it from you than leave it standing. Write to complaints@aslam.clinic with the page and the problem.

• A clinical error is corrected or the page is taken down the same day it is confirmed.
• A correction that changes the meaning is noted on the page, with the date. We do not edit silently.
• A typo is simply fixed.
• You will hear back within 5 days, whatever the outcome.