How we review health content
HRT Women compares online menopause and HRT providers and publishes guides on hormone therapy and its alternatives. The medical and scientific statements in that content are checked by a named reviewer with the training to check them. This page says exactly what that means, and what it does not.
Last updated 2026-10-04
Who reviews
Our reviewer is a licensed medical laboratory scientist with a Master of Public Health degree and clinical-trial experience, not a prescribing physician. We say “reviewed for medical accuracy” rather than “medically reviewed by a doctor” for that reason.
What is reviewed
- How hormone therapy (estrogen, progesterone, vaginal estrogen) and non-hormonal options work, and the terminology used to describe them.
- Clinical-trial figures (for example from the Women’s Health Initiative) and what the cited study actually measured.
- Regulatory status: FDA approval, FDA label and boxed-warning changes, and what “bioidentical” and “compounded” mean and do not mean.
- Contraindications, risks, side effects and safety statements, against the FDA label and menopause society guidelines.
- Whether a claim is supported by the source it cites, and whether the source is current.
What is not reviewed
Prices, provider rankings, partner selection, provider descriptions and “best for” verdicts are editorial. They are produced by the HRT Women editorial team under the method on how we rank, and the reviewer has no role in them. Customer review figures and excerpts are quoted as captured and are not medical evidence.
Reviewers do not choose providers, set prices or rankings, or take part in commercial partnerships. We may earn a commission from provider links; that never changes a medical statement or a review date.
How review dates work
Every content page carries a review bar under its title. It has two states:
- “Reviewed for medical accuracy by” with a date.The named reviewer went through that page on that date. The same date is published in the page’s structured data.
- “Medical reviewer” with no date.The page names the site’s reviewer but has not yet been reviewed. We do not backfill dates.
A page is re-reviewed when its medical content changes materially or when the underlying guidance changes. Price and ranking updates do not trigger a medical re-review and do not change the review date.
Found an error?
Tell us through our contact page, with the page address and the statement in question. Confirmed medical errors are corrected and the page is re-reviewed.
Nothing on this site is medical advice. Compounded hormone products are not FDA-approved. Whether hormone therapy is right for you is a decision for a licensed clinician; talk to one before starting or changing any treatment.