This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

March 3, 2011 — People with hypochondriasis can be effectively treated with Internet-based cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) with minimal therapist involvement, according to results of a new ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...