Schema for Medical pages

Types of schema to be used for medical condition pages

[meghu143]

How important is medicalcondition schema useful for a website similar to health.com or healthline? Can this schema be included at cat/subcat level if there are multiple articles for different conditions or specialties or diet related. also, should this schema be applied to only medically reviewed articles or can it be applied to any generic articles not directly related to any medical condition such as 'diabetes diet'

[meghu143]

What are best practices to included medical types schemas for different set of URLs in same cat/subcat as the articles are written for different conditions/ailments/diet? Can this be done programmatically where the type of schema changes as per the type of articles? If yes then how?

[edited by: not2easy at 6:09 pm (utc) on Sep 22, 2025]
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[not2easy]

The only mention I've seen regarding policies for medical sites is found here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policies where they say:

We don't allow content that contradicts or runs contrary to scientific or medical consensus and evidence-based best practices.

Google's Structured Data (Schema) guidelines is here along with links to their testing tools: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structured-data/sd-policies

[Brett_Tabke]

I watch this space pretty close (wifey in it), so I have spent quite a bit of time researching it. (just wrote a private white paper on it for an agency)

The medicalCondition schema is one of the most specific health related types, and really it seems to be only intended for use on a page that is explicitly about that single condition. If you apply it at a category or subcategory level, the markup will end up being way too broad. You can't apply it to a category or subcat.

As for “only medically reviewed articles vs. generic health content”: schema isn’t going to enforce a quality threshold by itself. For general lifestyle or diet pieces, stick with generic "Article schema" plus appropriate about references/links.