Broken heart syndrome sounds like something out of a romance novel. But it's a bona fide medical condition that feels like a ...

Experiencing physical pain after intense stress can be a serious medical concern—one with elevated risk for a portion of the ...

If you’ve lived any amount of time on this earth, you’ve probably experienced a broken heart of some kind. Whether you got your heartbroken by a romantic relationship or even in a loss from a precious ...

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, triggered by emotional stress, shows higher death rates in men even though women are more often ...

We're all aware of the psychological pain of a broken heart – countless books, songs, and movies have been written and made ...

Broken heart syndrome is more common in women ... short-term failure of the heart muscle and even death in a small percentage of people. Now a new study has found that although the condition ...

Physicians diagnose broken heart syndrome by identifying specific markers: part of the heart muscle appears balloon-like, no blocked arteries are present as seen in traditional heart attacks ...

To confirm that a person has broken heart syndrome, doctors look for a few tell-tale signs. In a typical patient, part of their heart muscle is enlarged like a balloon, but they do not have a ...

There are around 335,000 recurrent heart attacks in the United States each year, according to the American Heart Association ...

He worked with a team at the University of Utah to create a mechanical heart. It was later used in patients awaiting an organ ...

People with broken heart syndrome also typically had ... clotting medications in patients with a substantially weakened heart muscle or with an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation ...

Groundbreaking research into changes to the heart of women athletes will set a new standard for female heart healthcare, researchers have said. Until now, changes to the heart as a result of intensive ...