Open MedScience uses images to support navigation, illustrate concepts, and enhance engagement across articles, educational materials and multimedia content. This policy outlines how images are selected, supplied and presented across the platform to ensure consistency, compliance and professional integrity.
Image Provision and Editorial Control
All feature images and visual materials displayed on Open MedScience are supplied, selected and managed by Open MedScience.
Images may be included for navigational and contextual purposes on:
- Blog archive pages
- Category pages
- Individual content pages
- Educational and multimedia sections
Where required, Open MedScience will provide appropriate visual materials to enhance structural clarity and user navigation.
This approach applies across all platform categories, including but not limited to:
Artificial Intelligence; Briefings; Clinical Translation and Practice; Company; Cyber Security; Dentistry; Editorial Review; Education; Features; Health and Wellbeing; Health Matters; Human Anatomy; JDIT Journal; Knowledge in Practice; Medical Devices; Medical Imaging Modalities; Medical Imaging News; Medical Imaging Topics; Medical Physics; Medical Robotics; Medical Science Liaison; Medical Technologies; Medicine; Nuclear Medicine Imaging; Nutraceuticals; Open MedScience Newsletter; Open MedScience Review; Optical Imaging; Policy Guidelines; Policy, Regulation and Governance; Radiation Therapy; Radiolabelling; Radiology; Radiopharmaceuticals; Radiopharmacy; Radiotheranostics; Radiotherapeutics; Regulatory Affairs; Research Methods and Reproducibility; and Sustainability.
Open MedScience does not accept, publish or host contributor-submitted images for inclusion within articles, category pages or other content areas. All images are centrally controlled to maintain editorial consistency and licensing compliance.
Purpose of Images
Images complement written content and help explain scientific, clinical, and technological topics. Visual material may include licensed stock photography, conceptual graphics, illustrations, diagrams and multimedia stills.
Images are intended to support understanding and engagement and should not be interpreted as documentary evidence of specific events, patients, clinical procedures or research activities unless explicitly stated.
Illustrative Use and Representation
Images used within articles are for illustrative purposes only and do not depict actual patients, clinicians, research participants or specific events unless clearly identified as such.
Where individuals appear in visual content, they are models or representative figures used to convey context. No image should be interpreted as representing a real patient case, medical outcome, institutional endorsement or individual experience unless formally acknowledged.
Clinical and Scientific Context
Where images relate to medical imaging, radiotherapy, radiopharmaceutical science or other technical disciplines, they are selected to reflect general principles and accepted practice. Images may be simplified or stylised for clarity and should not be relied upon as diagnostic references, clinical instruction or procedural guidance.
Clinical decisions must always be based on appropriate professional training, verified evidence and institutional protocols.
Ethical and Responsible Selection
Open MedScience selects images that are respectful, non-exploitative and appropriate for professional audiences. Visual content is chosen to avoid misrepresentation, stereotyping or sensationalism. Sensitive medical themes are presented with care and professional discretion.
Copyright and Licensing
Images are used in accordance with applicable licensing agreements and stock image terms. Attribution is provided where required. Unauthorised reproduction, redistribution or commercial use of images from this platform may be restricted under copyright law and licensing conditions.
Updates and Review
This policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes in publishing practice, regulatory guidance or editorial standards.
Image Disclaimer
All images and visual materials published on Open MedScience are provided for illustrative and educational purposes only. Visual content does not constitute clinical advice, diagnostic guidance, or professional instruction.
Images do not depict real patients, clinicians, research participants or clinical outcomes unless expressly stated. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is coincidental.
Open MedScience does not accept responsibility for reliance placed upon visual content for medical, clinical, regulatory or research decision-making. Clinical decisions must be made in accordance with appropriate professional standards, training and institutional governance.
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