Educational purpose
HSVHQ is an independent educational publisher. Its articles, guides, research records, source links, and other materials provide general information about HSV and related research.
HSVHQ does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Reading, using, or contacting HSVHQ does not create a physician-patient, clinician-patient, or other professional healthcare relationship.
Individual medical decisions
General information cannot account for every reader’s medical history, symptoms, medicines, pregnancy status, immune status, test history, other conditions, or personal circumstances. Use an appropriately qualified healthcare professional for decisions about your own diagnosis, testing, treatment, pregnancy care, or other medical needs.
Nothing on HSVHQ should be interpreted as a recommendation for a particular person to start, stop, change, or select a medication, dose, diagnostic test, treatment, or research study. Describing a guideline, study, trial, or available option is not the same as choosing care for an individual.
Emergencies and urgent care
HSVHQ is not an emergency service and does not monitor the site for requests for help. If you may be experiencing a medical emergency or potentially urgent symptoms, use the appropriate local emergency or urgent-care service. Do not wait for a reply from HSVHQ or rely on an article as the response to an urgent situation.
Some HSVHQ guides identify circumstances that warrant prompt or urgent assessment. Those boundaries are general information, not an evaluation of an individual reader.
Accuracy and changing evidence
Medical evidence, clinical guidelines, regulatory status, medicine availability, and recommendations change over time. HSVHQ makes reasonable editorial efforts to check sources, show evidence dates, preserve uncertainty, and correct material errors. It does not promise that every page will always be complete, error-free, or current.
Check the evidence date and review record shown on a page. When a decision depends on current guidance, availability, or personal circumstances, check the current source and discuss the question with an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Sources and external links
Citations and links are provided so readers can examine the evidence. An external link does not mean HSVHQ controls that site or endorses everything it publishes, and external content can change after HSVHQ links to it.
HSVHQ may summarize third-party studies, guidelines, regulatory information, trial records, and company statements. Its editorial approach is to distinguish what a source reported from HSVHQ’s own interpretation. When a company or sponsor makes a claim, HSVHQ identifies the organization rather than presenting the claim as its own conclusion.
Using the site
Readers decide how to use HSVHQ’s general information. The site is intended to help people understand evidence, examine sources, and prepare better questions; it is not a substitute for care tailored to one person.
HSVHQ does not promise uninterrupted access to the site. It cannot take responsibility for loss caused by treating general information as individualized medical advice, or by interruptions outside its reasonable control. These limits apply only where the law allows them.
Changes to these terms
These terms may change as HSVHQ’s publishing practices or services change. The date at the top of the page will show the latest revision.
Questions about these terms can be sent to contact@hsvhq.com.