Standards and conflicts
Effective November 9, 2026.
This page sets out how The Priority Review reports, checks and corrects the news, how we use software and label it, and how we keep outside interests out of our coverage.
Accuracy and sources
Every factual claim on this site links to the primary source behind it: an FDA notice, a Federal Register document, a ClinicalTrials.gov record, a company filing, a peer-reviewed paper or the company's own announcement. Each story ends with its list of sources.
Before an item appears, code checks every number and name in it against those sources. Items about safety problems, enforcement actions or allegations wait for a person to read them first.
We report what a source says and say where a claim comes from. A company's announcement is reported as the company's statement, not as an established fact. We do not give medical advice.
Corrections
If we get something wrong, we fix it. When a correction changes a fact, a number, a name or the meaning of a sentence, we correct the text and add a note at the end of the story that says what was wrong, what we changed and the date of the change. We do not remove a published story to hide an error. Spelling and formatting fixes that change no meaning are made without a note.
To report an error, use the contact form and choose Correction, or write to news@thepriorityreview.com. Tell us the page and what you believe is wrong. The editor reads every correction request.
How we use software
Software does much of the work on this site, and every item says how it was made, on the item itself, under the byline. The labels read:
Machine-summarized from the primary source linked below; not independently reported.
That line is on stream briefs, the short items written by software from one primary source. Other software-written summaries carry the same line with "primary sources listed below".
Compiled by code from the stream briefs and public records linked below; no model wrote this page.
That line is on the weekly data stories, and the weekly issue carries the same kind of line for the week's briefs and stories.
Drafted by software from the primary sources listed below, checked by code, and read and approved by the editor before publication.
That line is on bylined analysis pieces. Code checks each one against its sources, a second model from a different company reads it against the same sources, and the editor reads and approves it before it appears. A person's name appears only on work that person wrote or approved.
The full description is in how we use automation on the About page. Share images are generated by software from the story's own title and carry no reader data.
Independence
No company, sponsor or source reviews or approves a story before it appears. We do not accept payment, gifts or favors in return for coverage, and we do not let a business relationship decide what we cover or how. Press releases are a source like any other: we check them against the primary record where one exists and say when a story rests on a company's own statement.
The site carries no advertising or sponsored content today. If that changes, paid material will be labeled as paid, kept apart from the news and given no say over coverage.
We use what readers send us (newsletter addresses, contact messages) only for the purpose they gave it to us. We do not sell it or pass it to any other business for its own use. The privacy policy has the details.
Conflicts of interest
A conflict of interest is any financial, business or personal tie between someone who works on our coverage and a company, product or person we cover. Our rules:
Anyone who writes, edits or approves our coverage discloses their outside business roles on this page.
A person with a financial or business tie to a company does not write, edit or approve a bylined piece about that company. Any other coverage of that company carries a note naming the tie.
We never offer coverage, or a promise about coverage, in exchange for business, and we do not use access gained through press credentials to sell anything.
If a conflict comes to light after a story is published, we add a note to the story saying what the tie is.
The editor's outside roles
Pending: the editor's disclosure of outside business roles will be published here.
Contact
Questions about these standards go to news@thepriorityreview.com or the contact form.