How the database is built.
The site indexes public research metadata from PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov on a defined set of wellness interventions, then generates topic, study and trial views from normalized records.
Publication source
Publication records are discovered through NCBI's Entrez Programming Utilities against PubMed. The updater stores bibliographic metadata, publication types, MeSH headings and source identifiers. It does not republish complete article text or full abstracts.
Clinical trial source
Trial records are retrieved from the ClinicalTrials.gov v2 API. Status, study type, phase, enrollment, conditions, intervention names, dates and source links are normalized when available.
Update schedule
The GitHub Action is scheduled twice weekly and can also be run manually. It searches each defined topic, deduplicates records that match multiple topics, regenerates statistics and pages, then deploys the refreshed static site.
Search scope
The current scope focuses on sauna/heat therapy, infrared sauna, cold-water immersion, contrast therapy, photobiomodulation/red light, floatation therapy, massage therapy, passive heating/sleep and exercise recovery. Query definitions are published in /data/topics.json.
Design classification rules
The publication-type labels supplied by PubMed drive our design bucket. Where PubMed does not supply a recognized label, the record is categorized as “Other research.” This is intentionally conservative.
Read design definitions