Editorial policy and corrections

What rules do the pages follow?

• The label speaks for itself. What a medicine is approved for, its warnings and its interactions are quoted from the FDA label, marked as quotations and dated; PlainMeds does not paraphrase them into advice.
• No grades and no recommendations. The site does not rate interactions, rank medicines as better or worse, or suggest a dose. Rankings order medicines by a counted figure (recalls, shortage length, price) and say what the count cannot show.
• Every figure has a source line naming the file and the date it was read.
• Counts are not risks. Adverse-event report counts are shown with the reminder that they are not rates and do not prove cause.
• Nothing is placed for money. No drug company, pharmacy or advertiser can buy a position, a mention or a change of wording.

Who reviews the pages?

PlainMeds' data editor (the publisher is named on the about page) reviews the pipeline, the page designs and the wording of every page type, and checks samples of each type against the source files at every release. The individual pages are checked by automated tests against those files. PlainMeds has no medical reviewer, and it does not present its pages as medical content reviewed by a clinician; that is why it quotes the FDA label rather than interpreting it.

How are errors corrected?

1. Report: write to hello@plainmeds.com with the page address and the figure or sentence in question.
2. Check: the data editor compares it with the FDA or CMS record it came from, and answers you.
3. Fix at the cause: if PlainMeds is wrong, the rule or join that produced the error is corrected and every page it touched is rebuilt, not just the one reported.
4. Record: corrections that change what a page says are listed below with their date.

Some errors are in the source itself, such as a label that has not caught up with a newer approval. Then we tell you so and point to the record where it can be reported: DailyMed for labels, the FDA drug shortages page for shortages.

What has changed on the site?

Material changes to what PlainMeds shows or how it is made, newest first. Routine rebuilds with newer files are not listed.

• October 7, 2026: PlainMeds was rebuilt around one record per medicine (its set of active ingredients), joining the FDA label, NDC Directory, Drugs@FDA, the Orange Book, NADAC prices, shortages, recalls and FAERS counts. Label sections now quote the reference label and link it on DailyMed; interaction pages quote what each label says about the other, both ways; comparisons, alternatives, conditions, classes, eleven analyses with downloadable data, and an interaction checker were added. Addresses of the earlier pages answer at the page that now answers the same question.
• August 30, 2026: data pages linked a prefilled correction message; the date shown on data pages came from the build's records instead of a hand-set month.
• August 30, 2026: category and shortage pages linked their official source records.