How FibroHub sources its science

The rules every page on this site publishes under, in one page. They existed before this page did; here they are where you can hold us to them.

Every source is free to read

Every research claim on FibroHub links to full text you can read for free: PubMed Central, the NCBI Bookshelf, or a journal's true open-access copy. We never cite a paywall, and we never let an abstract stand in for a paper. If you want to check our work, the whole study is one click away, at no cost, every time.

Every link is checked before it ships

Before a page publishes, every source link gets opened and confirmed live. Claims are written from the source text itself, and a number appears only when the study behind it actually reports it. When a study turns out to be locked or unavailable, we swap in a free source that supports the same point, or we cut the claim.

Research and lived experience stay labeled

Science claims cite peer-reviewed journals. Coping strategies and family-dynamics guidance cite the therapy-education sources they come from, by name. Personal narrative reads as personal narrative. You should always be able to tell which of the three you are reading.

Who writes here

FibroHub is written from the patient's side of the exam table by Toni Bailey, with research support from Ken Mendoza. Nothing here is medical advice, and every article says so where you can see it. Your care team knows your body; bring anything you find here to them before acting on it.

Corrections

Errors get fixed as soon as they are found, whether we catch them or a reader does, and the page's modified date changes when they are.