Commenting Policy

We encourage your comments, questions, and suggestions. However, this site is not intended to be used for clinical advice about specific medical concerns or conditions. Please contact your doctor or hospital if you think you have a medical emergency or if a condition or disease is not improving.

The site community is meant to be a safe, constructive environment. We ask that participants stay on topic, be respectful, and avoid spam, profanity, or anything that violates our site policies.

Please note that the site may, in our sole discretion, reject comments for any reason. Links of value to readers are welcome, but please use them sparingly – we are vigilant in preventing blog spam and will remove any links that we deem to be inappropriate. 

This is a moderated site. All comments are reviewed and will appear as soon as possible (subject to our right to reject comments for any reason). You might experience a delay between the time when you submit a comment and the point when it appears on the site while comments are reviewed. Please note, expert panelists are not able to respond directly to e-mails and comments.   

The opinions expressed here are not necessarily the opinions of the site, and we assume no responsibility for such comments. It is illegal to copy trademarks, content, materials, or intellectual property from others; please provide only your own original thoughts and comments. While we do allow some basic HTML in the comments, do not post viruses or any malicious code.

Remember, this is a public site.  Please do not post any private information unless you want it to be available publicly, including information about your job or your employer, and never assume that you are completely anonymous and cannot be identified by your comments.