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Cyberchondira – Are you affected as well?
The hypothesis goes like this; you wake up in the morning with a severe headache and before consulting a doctor, the first thing you do is search for it on the web. If you find out that you may have brain tumor then you are quite likely suffering from...
Tags: cyberchondria, Microsoft, web search engines, information retrieval technology
Medical searches on Web can trigger anxiety: study
Washington :: DC :: USA | 11 months ago
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Playing doctor on the Web often leads people to mistakenly believe that they are suffering from rare illnesses, according to a study by researchers at Microsoft. "Web search engines have the potential to escalate medical concerns," or "cyberchondria,"...
Tags: cyberchondria, web searches
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