diff --git a/frontend/src/App.css b/frontend/src/App.css
index 1944da14..718ef1ad 100644
--- a/frontend/src/App.css
+++ b/frontend/src/App.css
@@ -130,6 +130,11 @@ This is the wording logo in the nav bar
     @apply bg-gradient-to-r from-blue-600 via-blue-700 to-blue-600 bg-clip-text text-transparent;
 }
 
+/* Using logo-like styles outside of the header */
+.body_logo {
+  @apply bg-gradient-to-r from-blue-500 via-blue-700 to-blue-300 bg-clip-text font-quicksand font-bold text-transparent
+}
+
 /* Tailwind Styles */
 
 /*
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Footer/Footer.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Footer/Footer.tsx
index 34820b9b..68a22263 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Footer/Footer.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Footer/Footer.tsx
@@ -107,8 +107,14 @@ function Footer() {
             </button>
           </div>
         </div>
-        <div className="flex justify-center rounded  px-4 py-2 ">
-          © 2025 Balancer. All rights reserved. V1 2-04-2025
+        <div className="flex justify-center rounded px-4 py-2 ">
+          <p>© 2025 Balancer. All rights reserved. V1 2-04-2025</p>
+        </div>
+        <div className="flex justify-center rounded px-4 py-2 ">
+          <p className="text-gray-600 text-sm font-light italic">
+            Balancer is an educational resource designed to support{" "}
+            —never replace— the judgment of licensed U.S. clinicians. Final prescribing decisions must always be made by the treating clinician.
+          </p>
         </div>
       </footer>
     </div>
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/About/About.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/About/About.tsx
index 03e1ca24..10035a73 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/About/About.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/About/About.tsx
@@ -6,102 +6,60 @@ import image from "./OIP2.png";
 function About() {
   return (
     <Layout>
-      <div className=" font_body mt-48  flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center  rounded-md border bg-white p-4 px-8 ring-1 hover:ring-slate-300 md:max-w-6xl">
-        {/* Top section */}
-        <div className="flex flex-row">
-          <div className="top-section mr-10 mt-10 flex max-w-6xl flex-col justify-center md:w-full">
-            <div className="mt-5 text-3xl font-bold">
-              A tool that makes it easier to research medications for bipolar
-              disorder.
-            </div>
-            <div className="mt-5 text-lg text-gray-500">
-              It can take two to 10 years—and three to 30 medications—for people
-              with bipolar disorder to find the right medication combination.
-              Balancer is designed to help physicians shorten this journey for
-              their patients.
-            </div>
-          </div>
-          <img
-            src={image}
-            alt="about image"
-            className="hidden md:mt-10 md:block md:h-64 md:rounded-2xl"
-          ></img>
-        </div>
-
-        {/* Middle section */}
-        <div className="mission-section flex w-full flex-row justify-center md:mt-28 md:max-w-6xl">
-          <div>
-            <div className="text-3xl font-bold">
-              Get accurate, helpful information on bipolar medications fast
-            </div>
-            <div className="mt-5 text-lg text-gray-500">
-              Powered by innovative AI technology, Balancer is a tool that aids
-              in providing personalized medication recommendations for patients
-              with bipolar disorder in any state, including mania, depression,
-              hypomania and mixed. Our platform utilizes machine learning to
-              give you the latest, most up-to-date information on medications
-              and active clinical trials to treat bipolar disorder.{" "}
-            </div>
-            <div className="mt-5 text-lg text-gray-500">
-              Balancer automates medication decision support by offering
-              tailored medication recommendations and comprehensive risk-benefit
-              assessments based on a patient's diagnosis, symptom severity,
-              treatment goals and individual characteristics.{" "}
-            </div>
-            <div className="mt-20 text-3xl font-bold">Our mission</div>
-            <div className="flex w-full flex-col justify-between">
-              <div className="mt-8 text-lg text-gray-500">
-                Bipolar disorder affects approximately 5.7 million adult
-                Americans{" "}
-                <a
-                  href="https://www.dbsalliance.org/education/bipolar-disorder/bipolar-disorder-statistics/"
-                  className="underline"
-                  target="_blank"
-                >
-                  every year
-                </a>
-                . Delays in the correct diagnosis and proper treatment of
-                bipolar disorder may result in social, occupational, and
-                economic burdens, as well as{" "}
-                <a
-                  href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796048/"
-                  className="underline"
-                  target="_blank"
-                >
-                  an increase in completed suicides
-                </a>
-                .
+      <div className="font_body mt-48  flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center  rounded-md border bg-white p-4 px-8 ring-1 hover:ring-slate-300 md:max-w-6xl">
+        {/* Making it easier to research bipolar medications */}
+        <div className="flex w-full flex-col justify-center mb-20 md:mb-0">
+          <div className="flex flex-row">
+            <div className="flex flex-col justify-center md:w-full mr-10">
+              <div className="mt-5 text-3xl font-bold">
+                Making it easier to research bipolar medications
               </div>
-              <div className="mt-5 text-lg text-gray-500">
-                The team behind Balancer believes that building a searchable,
-                interactive and user-friendly research tool for bipolar
-                medications has the potential to improve the health and
-                well-being of people with bipolar disorder.
+              <div className="mt-5 text-lg text-gray-600">
+                It can take two to 10 years—and three to 30 medications—for people with bipolar disorder to find the right medication combination. <span className="body_logo">Balancer</span> is designed to help prescribers speed up that process by making research faster and more accessible.
               </div>
             </div>
+            <img src={image} alt="about image" className="hidden md:mt-10 md:block md:h-64 md:rounded-2xl"></img>
           </div>
-          {/* <div className="flex w-full flex-col items-center">
-            <div>
-              <div className="mt-8 text-4xl font-bold">44 million</div>
-              <div className="text-lg">Transactions every 24 hours</div>
-              <div className="mt-5 text-4xl font-bold">$119 million</div>
-              <div className="text-lg">Assets under holding</div>
-              <div className="mt-5 text-4xl font-bold">46,000</div>
-              <div className="text-lg">New users annually</div>
-            </div>
-          </div> */}
         </div>
-
+        {/* How Balancer works */}
+        <div className="flex w-full flex-col justify-center md:mt-20 md:max-w-6xl mb-20 md:mb-0">
+          <div className="mb-5 text-3xl font-bold">
+            How <span>Balancer</span> works
+          </div>
+          <ul className="list-disc pl-5">
+            <li className="mb-5">
+              <span className="text-md font-bold">Medication Suggestions (rules-based):</span>
+              <p className="text-gray-600 mt-2">When you enter patient characteristics, Balancer suggests first-line, second-line, and third-line options. The recommendations follow a consistent framework developed from interviews with psychiatrists, psychiatry residents, nurse practitioners, and other prescribers. This part is not powered by AI.</p>
+            </li>
+            <li className="mb-5">
+              <span className="text-md font-bold">Explanations & Research (AI-assisted):</span>
+              <p className="text-gray-600 mt-2">For each suggestion, you can click to see supporting journal articles. Here, Balancer uses AI to search our database of medical research and highlight relevant sources for further reading.</p>
+            </li>
+          </ul>
+          <p className="text-gray-600 text-lg">Together, these features help prescribers get reliable starting points quickly—without replacing professional judgment.</p>
+        </div>
+        {/* Important disclaimer */}
+        <div className="flex w-full flex-col justify-center md:mt-20 md:max-w-6xl mb-20 md:mb-0">
+          <div className="text-3xl font-bold mb-5">
+            Important disclaimer
+          </div>
+          <p className="text-gray-600">Balancer is a free, open-source research tool built by volunteers at Code for Philly. It is for licensed U.S. prescribers and researchers only.</p>
+          <ul className="list-disc pl-5 mt-2">
+            <li><p className="mt-2 text-gray-600">Balancer does <em>not</em> provide medical advice.</p></li>
+            <li><p className="mt-2 text-gray-600">It does <em>not</em> determine treatment or replace clinical judgment.</p></li>
+            <li><p className="mt-2 text-gray-600">Clinical decisions should always be based on the prescriber's expertise, knowledge of the patient, and official medical guidelines.</p></li>
+          </ul>
+        </div>
         {/* Support Us section */}
-        <div className=" flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center md:mt-28">
+        <div className="flex w-full flex-col items-center justify-center md:mt-28 md:max-w-6xl">
           <div className="text-3xl font-bold">Support Us</div>
-          <div className="mt-5 flex flex-col items-center justify-center text-center text-lg text-gray-500 md:pl-48 md:pr-48">
-            <div className="text-xl font-bold">
-              Balancer is a not-for-profit, civic-minded, open-source project
+          <div className="mt-5 flex flex-col items-center justify-center text-center text-lg text-gray-600 md:pl-48 md:pr-48">
+            <div className="text-xl">
+              <span className="body_logo">Balancer</span> is a not-for-profit, civic-minded, open-source project
               sponsored by{" "}
               <a
                 href="https://codeforphilly.org/"
-                className="underline"
+                className="underline hover:text-blue-600 hover:no-underline"
                 target="_blank"
               >
                 Code for Philly
@@ -109,7 +67,6 @@ function About() {
               .
             </div>
           </div>
-
           <div className="mb-20 mt-5 flex flex-row flex-wrap justify-center gap-4">
             <a href="https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/MjMyMTIw" target="_blank">
               <button className="btnBlue transition-transform focus:outline-none focus:ring focus:ring-blue-200">
diff --git a/frontend/src/pages/PatientManager/PatientManager.tsx b/frontend/src/pages/PatientManager/PatientManager.tsx
index 2cb8ede3..a8c10f0e 100644
--- a/frontend/src/pages/PatientManager/PatientManager.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/pages/PatientManager/PatientManager.tsx
@@ -87,14 +87,17 @@ const PatientManager = () => {
 
   const descriptionEl = (
     <div className="md:mt-10">
-      Use our tool to get medication suggestions for bipolar disorder based on
-      patient characteristics.{" "}
-      <Link
-        to="/data-sources"
-        className="mr-5 underline hover:border-blue-600 hover:text-blue-600 hover:no-underline"
-      >
-        Read about where we get our data.
-      </Link>
+      <p>Use our tool to explore medication options for bipolar disorder based on patient characteristics.</p>
+      <p>
+        <Link
+          to="/data-sources"
+          className="mr-5 underline hover:border-blue-600 hover:text-blue-600 hover:no-underline"
+        >
+          Read about where we get our data.
+        </Link>
+      </p>
+      <p className="text-gray-600 mt-4 text-sm font-light italic">Balancer is an educational resource designed to support —never replace— the judgment of licensed U.S. clinicians.</p>
+      <p className="text-gray-600 text-sm font-light italic">Final prescribing decisions must always be made by the treating clinician.</p>
     </div>
   );