Weather Health Link Goes Online To Help With Chronic Conditions

Jan. 5, 2009 - PRLog -- 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," says Mr. Bourque. There are already plans underway to expand the range of health matters MediClim will warn against.  


For more information or interview requests, please contact –
Dinah Laredo at 416.908.4267 or dinah.laredo@rogers.com

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MediClim® is a warning system that takes into account a multitude of weather parameters known to affect health, such as humidity, barometric pressure and temperature. MediClim® can warn people when they are most susceptible to flare ups from migraine, asthma, arthritis or heart disease. Users subscribe to receive emails that will alert them if specific weather conditions coming to their area may cause them a problem.