Founded by physician Dr. John Bart and Environment Canada meteorologist Denis Bourque, this free subscriber-based web service is available in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Users able to subscribe for free via mediclim.com and receive advance warning via email alert when their health matter is more likely to be aggravated as a result of pending weather conditions. Mediclim provides warnings for migraine, arthritis, asthma, diabetes and heart disease.
Over the past 25 years Dr. Bart and Mr. Bourque have collaborated on what is the most robust form of online weather health link in the world. "Our goal is to improve the lives of people with chronic or re-occuring illnesses by warning them when their health matter may flare-up. It is our hope that, armed with this knowledge, people may heed their doctor's advice more carefully during an alert to minimize any impact," says Dr. Bart.
Backed by European research that supports the weather health theory such as studies completed by the International Society of Biometeorology, Bart and Bourque have developed an index that maps specific weather conditions known to trigger health. The results of their research have culminated in 14 distinct categories of weather known to affect health. Their findings have been published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
"We're just at the tip of the iceberg in terms of the weather health relationship,"
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