You wake up in the night with the cough that has been hassling you for days. Or you notice an ache that won’t go away. You could book a doctor’s appointment but it’s the middle of the night so instead ...

The internet–and increasingly modern AI systems–make it easy for users to quickly find plausible explanations for supposed ...

It’s a busy day at the office and your left eye has been twitching uncontrollably. So, out of curiosity and irritation you google it. Various benign causes — stress, exhaustion, too much caffeine — ...

In September, researchers at the Imperial College London estimated that trips to hospital clinics for internet-induced healthy anxieties cost the National Health Institute £420 million a year in ...

Do you Google every change in your body for fear it's a symptom of something bigger? Have you convinced yourself you're suffering from an illness you've read about online, to the point of worry or ...

What Bieber is referring to, the magazine explains, is cyberchondria. And while that might sound like a trendy, made-up TikTok term, it refers to a problem you’ve almost certainly experienced at some ...

Health anxiety, also known as hypochondria, cost the British healthcare system around £56 million a year, researchers said on Thursday, blaming the internet for a rise in "cyberchondria". "We suspect ...

The past two-and-a-half years have been difficult for those prone to health anxiety. First, there has been Covid to worry about, now monkeypox. Of course, there are always "evergreen" problems like ...

According to a recent medical study, occurrences of cyberchondria — the term for hypochondria exacerbated by searching for your medical symptoms online — have almost doubled since 2008. Which is a ...

Questions about our physical and mental health can crop up without any warning. With online health advice sites, a diagnosis and its possible treatment are just a few mouse clicks away. Research shows ...

If you've ever researched your health problems online to anxiety-producing results, you're not alone. A Pew Research study indicates that 35% of Americans take to the internet to diagnose their health ...