Rana Coniglio, an Arizona-based therapist who works primarily with Gen Z clients, said they often arrive at her practice already attached to a diagnosis they found on TikTok. Sometimes, that ...

A new paper in Rheumatology Advances in Practice, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that TikTok videos about ...

Most TikTok videos inaccurately portray gout flares as a personal choice that can be alleviated through a healthy diet, ...

Likewise, 79% of TikTok videos addressed gout management, but 53% of those focused on diet advice. For example, some videos reported foods to avoid. One patient hospitalized for gout said viewers “can ...

Personal narratives on allergy and asthma conditions which contained inaccuracies gained the most traction online.

If 22% of adult Americans, according to one recent study, get a major portion of their news from TikTok, then forget about more fuller and balanced news reports. I’ve witnessed friends and family cite ...

Anna Gragert (she/her/hers) was previously the lifestyle editor at HelloGiggles, deputy editor at So Yummy and senior lifestyle editor at Hunker. Over the past 10+ years, Anna has also written for the ...

Women with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are 3 times more likely to forgo having children than people without the condition — it’s a trend driven by fear and confusion about what the disease would ...

Young people are particularly susceptible to misleading information on social media. Yet insights from developmental psychology show that they also have unique strengths to build resilience. In a new ...

To understand how other health problems can look like IBD, it helps to understand the differences between the two main types of IBD. For example, while Crohn’s and UC can both cause diarrhea, bleeding ...