'Cyberchondria' spreads online

MANY perfectly healthy people will recognise the symptoms: reading about some illness only to be left with a nagging concern that they may be suffering it themselves.


But hypochondria among the worried well has reached new levels, psychologists are warning. Growing use of the internet has led to what they have termed "cyberchondria"...

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