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· 7 min read
Can you catch a cold from being cold? What a chill can and can't do
Can you catch a cold from being cold? A chill cannot create a virus, but some studies link falling temperature with more colds. What each study measured and what is still unknown.
- colds and flu
- seasons
- myths
· 10 min read
What to bring to a doctor's appointment when you keep a symptom diary
Your diary won't fit in a short appointment. What research says about consultation time, what NICE asks a diary to record, and how to turn weeks of entries into one usable page.
- symptom tracking
- self-tracking
- habits
· 12 min read
How to read your own symptom odds: 7 out of 9 versus 2 out of 20
A single percentage about tomorrow doesn't exist. Here's how to read your own weather-symptom counts — like 7 out of 9 — against the ordinary days you need beside them.
- weather sensitivity
- symptom tracking
- self-tracking
· 8 min read
Quitting smoking: what the recovery timeline actually means, day by day
The WHO's published recovery timeline for quitting smoking, why it describes a population rather than your body, and what a quit-date tracker in an app can and can't tell you.
- quit smoking
- habits
- symptom tracking
· 9 min read
Health app privacy: what actually leaves the device in MeteoHealth
Health app privacy, looked at structurally: why there's nowhere to send your data in the first place — no server, no account, three outbound calls, and what's still unfinished.
- privacy
- architecture
- symptom tracking
· 13 min read
MeteoHealth vs Migraine Buddy and Bearable: what each app actually does
A dated, checkable comparison of three symptom trackers on the US App Store: what each one is for, what its privacy label declares, what it costs — and where MeteoHealth is the weaker choice.
- comparison
- privacy
- symptom tracking
· 9 min read
Medication adherence: why sticking to a schedule is what decides the outcome
WHO's own figures on how many people don't take medication as prescribed, why blaming patients is the wrong response, what NHS says about a missed dose, and what a tracker can and can't fix.
- medications
- habits
- symptom tracking
· 13 min read
How to check a health app before installing it, using only its own App Store page
A twelve-question checklist for reading any symptom-tracking app's App Store page before installing it — from a team that makes one of these apps and shows where it leads away from ours.
- privacy
- App Store
- symptom tracking