Investigators used several Swedish population-based registers to identify people who received a diagnosis of hypochondriasis between January 1997 and December 2020. Each individual diagnosed with ...

This section presents medications that are known to potentially lead to 'Hypochondriasis' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. Please be ...

An unhealthy obsession with falling sick or developing adverse health conditions ironically makes people more likely to die than those who don't worry much about these scenarios, a new study found.

Hypochondriasis, or excessive worry over one's health, is a psychiatric disorder that can affect every aspect of a person's life -- especially interpersonal relationships. University of Iowa ...

A hospital exam room awaits the next patient in Alabama. A large Swedish study, published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, has uncovered a paradox about people diagnosed with an excessive fear of serious ...

When Jharna Verma would frequently visit doctors for some reason or the other, without actually suffering from any concrete medical problem, her family was at their wits' end. This largely unspoken ...

I know I am dying, because, well, I just know. I'm certain of it. I can feel it. That pain on the left side of my stomach still hasn't gone away. It's been there for eight or nine months now. The ...

The antidepressant fluoxetine (multiple brands) may help ease hypochondriasis, and adding cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) provides a small incremental benefit, results of a randomized controlled ...

B O S T O N, Nov. 9 -- The recent anthrax scares have made nearly everyone a little more worried about those sniffles and coughs, leading many people to joke about hypochondria. But experts say ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW YORK — In patients with hypochondriasis receiving placebo, baseline depression predicted greater adverse ...

Have you ever found yourself experiencing health symptoms only to find no presence of any health condition? You may have doubted yourself or perhaps dealt with doubts about your disease with your ...

Health officials are cautioning people to mask up and keep hand sanitizer near as levels of COVID-19 surge throughout the country. It’s reportedly the largest summertime spike since 2022. Los Angeles ...