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Biomedical information must be based on reliable, third-party published secondary sources, and must accurately reflect current knowledge.This guideline supports the general sourcing policy with specific attention to what is appropriate for medical content in any Wikipedia article, including those on alternative medicine.
High-quality media outlets can be good sources of non-medical information in an article about a medical topic. Another acceptable use is using a popular press article to give a plain English summary of an academic paper (use the |laysummary= parameter of {{cite journal}} for this).
Examples of acceptable sources: Literature reviews or meta-analyses published in high quality journals (e.g.: Cochrane Reviews) Statements and clinical practice guidelines shared by major medical/scientific authorities (NIH, NAS, CDC, NHS, FDA, mainstream colleges of medicine) Textbooks are also acceptable. Examples of non-acceptable sources:
PubMed is an excellent starting point for locating peer reviewed medical sources. It offers a free search engine for accessing the MEDLINE database of biomedical research articles offered by the National Library of Medicine at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. There are basic and advanced options for searching PubMed.
WP:Reliable sources/Noticeboard - ask about specific sources. However, editors new to a particular topic might not realize some specific major publications are preferred as sources. Guideline WP:MEDRS suggests sources for medical text, but other subjects need recommendations for reliable sources, as well.
The article title should be the scientific or recognised medical name that is most commonly used in recent, high-quality, English-language medical sources, rather than a lay term (unscientific or slang name) [1] or an historical eponym that has been superseded. [2] The alternative names may be specified in the lead. [3]
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Pages in category "Articles requiring reliable medical sources" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 933 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .