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Could you sit your mom down and tell her what you have told us? Sometimes the imagination makes mountains out of mole hills if people are just willing to be open and honest? I talked to my mom and dad and they were willing yet I still hesitated until I needed medical history, because I worried about the flip side of the coin - the birth families.
You do need to have medical history, hereditary disease strike in the middle and old age as well as young ages, and for your doctor to have an idea of what you may face in the future will help guide him/her on the tests that need to be done as preventive measures, just like every non adopted person has. This also becomes more important if you have children as you may not be affected but diseases skip generations.
Consider the need to document your medical history for yourself and then see if that is the path that may help your parents feel less insecure.
Talking to them before, keeping them in the loop during, and including them (when appropriate) in your results will go along way to helping their insecurities.
Take care,
Dickons
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