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The Imaginary Invalid – Red Bull Theatre

The Molière comedy is newly translated by Mirabelle Ordinaire and adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher.

Authors use their skills to investigate the world around them and the people that populate it. That includes their deaths. Many fiction authors have doled

A person with illness anxiety disorder will spend a lot of time worrying and visiting clinics and hospitals

Sault Ste. Marie and Algoma District notables who died in 2023

People who worry excessively about their health tend to die earlier than those who don't, a recent study from Sweden has found.

The condition of excessive worrying about health is known to have a strong association with psychiatric disorders.

First, a word about terminology. The term “hypochondriac” is fast becoming pejorative. Instead, we medical professionals are encouraged to use the term illness anxiety disorder (IAD).

Hypochondriacs live, on average, five years less than those who don’t have the condition.