Pregnancy Most Searched Health Condition In February

The terms "pregnancy" and "cancer" were the two most frequently searched health conditions in February, receiving 8.8 million and 7.7 million search queries respectively according to comScore.

Other health conditions that were frequently searched in February include "flu" (1.8 million), depression also (1.8 million), followed by diabetes (1.7 million) and addiction (1.4 million).

ComScore also looked at the most commonly searched prescription brand name treatments and found that Chantix, a smoking cessation treatment, topped the list with more than 500,000 search queries. Adderall an ADHD treatment received 469,000 search queries followed by Viagra with 348,000 searches.

The most searched health condition, "pregnancy," is searched 17 times more often than the most popularly searched brand name, "Chantix." The second most searched term "cancer" had 1 million queries specific to the term "breast cancer."

"It's not too surprising that some of the most common health conditions, such as diabetes, depression and flu, have made the list, but it's interesting that these terms generate fewer searches than significantly less prevalent conditions like cancer and pregnancy," said Carolina Petrini, Source: comScore, Inc. Pregnancy                          8,841Flu                                    1,824Diabetes                           1,758Herpes                              1,340Anxiety                               910HPV                                   861Cholesterol                          816Menopause                          667Arthritis                               600Asthma                               569Most Commonly Searched Prescription Brands
February 2008
Total U.S. – Home/Work/University LocationsBrand Name             Search Queries
                             (000)Adderall                       469Ambien                        334Effexor                         264Lyrica                          233Lipitor                          181Cialis                           120Crestor                         119