Americans Increasingly Becoming 'Cyberchondriacs,' Study Finds
In 2007, we were introduced to the term "cyberchondriac," which refers to a person who constantly looks up health information online, presumably in an effort to self-diagnose illnesses. Now Harris Interactive, the group that coined the phrase, has updated its prior study, and shown that more and more people are using the Web to demystify symptoms -- or perceived symptoms, anyway. Since 2009, the ...









