What is MediClim®?
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.

History
The MediClim® story begins in the early 1980s when Dr. John Bart, a medical practitioner in Toronto, noticed that patients were having similar complaints on the same days. Wondering if weather could be the common factor, he asked one of his patients, meteorologist Denis Bourque, if evidence for such a link existed. Mr. Bourque was intrigued by the possibility.

After much research the two found that, in fact, much European literature supported the weather health theory. In 1964, 1974-1978, and 1980, the Dutchman Solco. W. Tromp had published major works on this topic. Tromp and his colleagues, who had been compiling studies on human biometeorology for 40 years were founding members of the International Society of Biometeorology,. The group’s studies were so advanced that, in the late 1980s, Germany began to publish a daily public forecast of health ailments likely to be aggravated as a result of weather.

After receiving a positive response from practitioners in the medical community in Canada, Bart and Bourque set out to develop an index that would map specific weather conditions known to trigger health. The results of their work are 14 distinct categories of weather known to affect health. MediClim® was born.

How It Works
On any given day, at any given location in North America, a MediClim® factor can be calculated.
MediClim® identifies the days that the weather will affect specific chronic or recurring diseases (migraine, arthritis, asthma, and cardiovascular disease to name but a few) and will warn you via email that your health condition may be triggered. With this knowledge, you and your health care advisor can discuss steps to be taken to lessen the effects of your illness. For example, if you can tell that conditions which may trigger your migraine are likely to exist tomorrow, you can take appropriate steps to diminish the migraine's magnitude, or even avoid it altogether.

How Mediclim Works to Predict:

1. Arthritis triggers
2. Asthma triggers
3. Diabetes triggers
4. Heart disease triggers
5. Migraine triggers