Publication identity: Beyond the Heartbeats is the magazine. From Fareesa, for Millions is its founding mission line. The Fareesa Question is a recurring editorial feature that turns lived experience into a carefully bounded question for evidence and investigation.

Most writing about neonatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) lands at one of two ends. At one end there’s the peer-reviewed clinical literature. It’s rigorous, but it’s written for specialists, and most of the families living with these questions can’t really use it. At the other end there’s informal parent-support writing. It’s honest and valuable, but it isn’t built to be cited, indexed, or used by a researcher planning a study. Beyond the Heartbeats is meant to sit in the middle: readable for families, but careful and well-sourced enough to be useful to the researchers and clinicians we also want to reach.

What we’re trying to do

  • Publish plain-language summaries of real, cited HIE research, spelling out what each study shows and what it doesn’t.
  • Publish first-person accounts from families and caregivers, always labeled as personal testimony, not clinical evidence.
  • Name specific, under-studied gaps in HIE research and family support, without pretending we’ve already filled them.
  • Grow, over time, toward real institutional involvement: named clinical advisors, invited researchers, and eventually formal indexing (see Editorial Standards and the ISSN pathway in the launch plan).

What we’re not trying to do

  • We aren’t a peer-reviewed journal. We won’t claim peer review for anything unless it has actually been through a named, external clinical review.
  • We don’t give medical advice, diagnoses, or treatment guidance for any individual child. See the Medical Disclaimer.
  • We don’t claim endorsement by, partnership with, or affiliation to any hospital, university, or organization unless that relationship exists in writing and we name it plainly.

This mission statement will keep evolving. As our advisory board and contributor base grow past this launch issue, we may revise it, and any change will be dated and logged under the Corrections Policy.