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How these guides are written

Pages about medicines should tell you who wrote them, what they are based on, and what they are not. This is that statement for every guide, template and comparison on cafeity.com.

By the Cafeity teamUpdated

The short answer

Cafeity's guides are written by the Cafeity team from primary sources: first the US prescribing information for each medicine, read from DailyMed; then published trials and guidance from regulators and professional bodies. Every figure is cited where it appears. The guides use generic medicine names only, never give dose advice or predictions, and have not yet been reviewed by a clinician — when a named reviewer checks a page, their name, credentials and the date will appear on it. Corrections go to support@shaheercare.com.

Who writes them

The guides are written and maintained by the Cafeity team — the same small team that builds the app. Cafeity is an independent company; it is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any pharmaceutical manufacturer, and it does not accept payment for any page.

We make an app, and these pages mention it. That is a conflict of interest, and we would rather state it than bury it. Every guide stands on its sources, and the parts that are about Cafeity are clearly separated — usually a section called "Keeping a record of it" near the end.

What they are based on

  1. Prescribing information first. Side-effect rates, warnings, half-lives and administration rules come from each medicine's current US prescribing information, read from the US National Library of Medicine's DailyMed service and linked by its set identifier. We quote the label's numbers as the label states them, placebo figures included.
  2. Published trials, cited to the journal article or its PubMed record, reported as trial averages.
  3. Regulators and professional guidance — the FDA, NICE, the TSA, and joint advisories from professional societies.
  4. Food composition from USDA FoodData Central.

Every figure carries a numbered citation that links to its source list at the foot of the page. Where we have done arithmetic — for example, how much of a dose remains after a number of days, from the published half-life — we say so and show the working.

Rules every page follows

  • No dose advice. No page tells you when to take a medicine, how much to take, how to increase it, what to do about a missed dose, or how to convert between products. Those are decisions for you and your prescriber, and the answers are in your medicine's own instructions.
  • No predictions. Trial results are reported as averages from those trials, never as what will happen to you.
  • Generic names only. We name medicines by their generic (international) names — semaglutide, tirzepatide, liraglutide, dulaglutide, exenatide, orforglipron — and never by brand. It keeps a clear line between an independent tool and the manufacturers.
  • No unapproved or grey-market products. We do not write guides for medicines that are not approved, or about obtaining medicines outside a prescription.
  • Warning signs on every symptom page. Each side-effect guide says, in the labels' own terms, when a symptom needs a clinician rather than a website.
  • Comparisons are sourced. Everything we say about another app comes from its own App Store listing or website, dated, and we say where another app is the better choice.

Review status

These pages have not yet been reviewed by a clinician. They are checked against their cited sources by the team before publication. We intend to have side-effect and nutrition guides reviewed by named, credentialed reviewers — a registered dietitian for food, a pharmacist or physician for medicines — and when that happens, the reviewer's name, credentials and the review date will appear at the top of the page. Until then, no page claims otherwise.

Updates and corrections

Prescribing information changes, and so do these pages. Each page shows the date it was last updated; the label versions it cites are listed with their publication dates. When a label changes in a way that affects a page — as the removal of the suicidal-ideation warning did in 2026 — we update the page and the date.

If you find an error, email support@shaheercare.com with the page and the source that disagrees. We correct factual errors promptly and say so on the page when a correction changes a figure.

Not medical advice

Nothing on cafeity.com is medical advice, and nothing here replaces your prescriber, your pharmacist or the patient information that comes with your medicine. If you are unwell, contact a healthcare professional; in an emergency, call your local emergency number. See the full medical disclaimer.