Project:General disclaimer

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Healthpages.Wiki provides linked health services information on hundreds of topics crowdsourced from industry, government agencies and our contributors. Healthpages.wiki is a collaborative effort to help patients, healthcare professionals, researchers, organisations and businesses discover health resources and information more efficiently. Healthpages.wiki features health news, social-media conversations, analytics, publications, events and comprehensive in-depth directory of health services (Including HealthCare professionals, Organisations, Hospitals, Clinics, Pharmacy Services, Pathology Services, Radiology Services and range of Health Topics including Medical Conditions, Interventions and more).

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In entering Healthpages.Wiki, you agree to hold the website free of responsibility and/or liability for potential damages or injury to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence, copyright infringement or otherwise from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein.

The views expressed in the articles are those of the individuals who contributed the materials and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial staff or the founding organization. Inclusion of materials in articles does not constitute a guarantee or endorsement of the organization of the quality or the value of the product or the claim made by the author or any manufacturer. Statements contained herein are those of the person who posted the material.

The website is a free service to the healthcare community. All articles on this server are made public by the author(s) who created the articles. The articles are public domain and may be downloaded and used freely for personal, research, scientific, and / or information purposes so long as you credit Healthpages.Wiki as the source of the material.

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4. NOTICE: 

The Editors and their agents, and the contributors to the website are not responsible for errors or omissions or for any consequences from application of the information herein and make no warranty, expressed or implied, with respect to the currency, completeness, or accuracy of the contents of the publication or any of the Services. Application of this information in a particular situation remains the professional responsibility of the practitioner.

Some information on drugs and medical devices presented in this website may be investigational and/or approved for limited use. It is the responsibility of health care providers to ascertain the status of each drug or device planned for use in their clinical practice.

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We are working on ways to select and highlight reliable versions of content. Our active community of editors uses tools such as the recent changes tool to monitor new and changing content. However, Healthpages.Wiki is not uniformly peer reviewed; while readers may correct errors or engage in casual peer review, they have no legal duty to do so and thus all information read here is without any implied warranty of fitness for any purpose or use whatsoever. Even articles that have been vetted by informal peer review or featured article processes may later have been edited inappropriately, just before you view them.

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