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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pregnancy, heat, and barometric pressure: what research does and doesn't show
What large studies say about heat during pregnancy, why the research on barometric pressure doesn't hold up, and which symptoms mean it's time to call a doctor, not watch the weather.
Your cycle and the weather: what your own record shows, and what research hasn't measured
The same weather can land differently in different weeks. What's actually established about the menstrual cycle and weather, how little research has measured it, and what your own record can show.
How much water do you actually need? Weather, activity, and the hydration myths
The "8 glasses a day" myth, what EFSA's actual water guidance says, and why the consensus on fluid intake during exercise points at thirst rather than at drinking more.
How to keep a symptom diary that actually finds your triggers
Memory is a bad judge of weather triggers. Here's how to log symptoms so statistics — not vibes — can tell you what's actually a pattern in your own data.