PathLight: Pediatric Health

Beej Care Foundation

About this app

PathLight helps families navigating pediatric chronic illness find clear,
research-backed answers — in their own language, for free, forever.

When your child is diagnosed with a serious condition, you face an
overwhelming flood of medical information. Researchers have PubMed.
Doctors have clinical decision support. The family has Google and hope.
PathLight is changing that.

**What PathLight Does**

Ask any question about your child's condition and PathLight searches
269,000+ and growing peer-reviewed research papers — from PubMed,
OpenAlex, and leading medical journals — to give you a plain-language,
research-backed answer in seconds. Every response cites the actual papers
it drew from, so you can verify and share with your child's care team.

**Conditions Covered**
• Crohn's Disease / Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
• Leukemia
• Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (NHL)
• Thalassemia
• Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)
• Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA)
• Food Allergy
• General chronic illness questions

**Languages Supported**
English, Hindi (हिंदी), Marathi (मराठी), Tamil (தமிழ்),
Telugu (తెలుగు), Bengali (বাংলা), Gujarati (ગુજરાતી),
Kannada (ಕನ್ನಡ), Spanish (Español)

Ask your question in any of these languages — PathLight responds in the
same language. Ask your question in any of these languages — PathLight responds in the same language.

**Research-Based and Supportive Responses**

PathLight recognizes two types of questions:
• Research-based: clinical questions about treatments, symptoms, and
research findings — answered with cited papers
• Supportive: emotional questions from worried or overwhelmed families —
answered with empathy first, then information

**Our Promise to Families**

✓ Free forever — no subscriptions, no hidden fees
✓ No ads — ever
✓ No pharmaceutical partnerships
✓ No data selling
✓ No health data stored — your questions are never saved
✓ PHI-free by design — we never collect medical records or diagnoses
✓ 50 queries per day — generous for real family use

**About Beej Care Foundation**

PathLight is built by Beej Care Foundation (BCF), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
based in Coppell, Texas. BCF was founded to support children facing
serious chronic illness — through financial assistance to families,
research grants to scientists, and free AI-powered health tools.

EIN: 41-4834284 | beejcare.org

**Privacy**

PathLight stores only an anonymous identifier (a one-way hash of your
Google ID that cannot be reversed) and your daily query count. We never
store your name, email, questions, or any health information.
Full privacy policy: https://beejcare.org/privacy.html

What’s new

First release of PathLight for Android.
269,000+ and growing pediatric research papers.
9 languages including Spanish and Hindi.
Free forever. Built by Beej Care Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.