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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It always starts out innocently enough — for example, with an eye twitch. It’s just a little tic, but it keeps coming and going over the course of a few weeks, and so I decide to do a little medical ...

People do it all the time. You wake up with a sore throat, start looking around on websites like WebMD.com and MayoClinic.org, and next thing you know, you’ve diagnosed yourself with cancer. Worry and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's been three days and that pain in your back is still there. You're starting to get a bit worried, so you do a bit of research on ...

Maybe it’s a peculiar rash, a consistent cough, or mind-numbing, news-induced headache–whatever the ailment, you know your next step. Much like 80% of Americans, you take to the web and, soon, you’re ...

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 ...

In this day and age of the internet, I am seeing a frightening trend among my patients. They are doing searches for information regarding their disease and often reading sites ...

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 ...

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 ...