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.

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 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.

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 ...

Most people can relate to the experience of assuming they have a medical condition, mental health illness, or a disease - regardless of their being medically diagnosed with it. It may stem from ...

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. | ...

"Le Malade Imaginaire," an image based on Moliere's play, is a 19th-century painting by Honore Daumier in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain. Seeing himself ...

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Hypochondriasis, now called illness anxiety disorder, is a rare condition with symptoms that go beyond average health worries. People with the disorder are unable to shake their fears despite normal ...