Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hypochondria, also known as hypochondriasis or illness anxiety disorder, causes people to have an unrealistic fear of illness. | ...

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 ...

Two Swedish people who were examined in a recent study had similar backgrounds: They were born in the same year and lived in the same county. But one of them - a diagnosed hypochondriac - was much ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A large Swedish study has uncovered a paradox about people diagnosed with an excessive fear of serious illness: They tend to die earlier than people who aren’t hypervigilant about health concerns.