Everyone needs reassurance. We need that validation, and we want to know we matter. This is crucial to keeping any relationship afloat. Think about it: When you go a long time without talking to a ...

My life as an advertiser began at a firm that specialized in one of the oldest American industries: grift. Staffed almost entirely by interns earning minimum wage, the company sold ad space in phone ...

Many cancer patients are anxious even when disease is in remission. Anxiety about health, ‘health anxiety’, has distinct features, notably seeking medical reassurance about symptoms. Doctors may then ...

Although not exclusive to OCD, excessive reassurance-seeking (ESR) is a lesser-known feature of OCD. But it can often be one of the most debilitating symptoms of OCD and have disastrous consequences ...

If you have health anxiety, you likely seek reassurance about your health-related concerns from doctors and/or loved ones. In other words, you repeatedly seek the simple, reassuring message that there ...

Survivorship care and patient tools like the breast cancer index help patients and doctors curate an individualized survivorship plan for each patient. Survivorship care plans for women with breast ...

Even before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s car crash meeting at the White House last month, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer had talked confidently of putting British boots on the ...

Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL's newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe's ...