Broken heart syndrome is a common name for stress-induced cardiomyopathy, or takotsubo cardiomyopathy, a disease that affects the heart’s muscle tissue. In 1990, Japanese researchers named the ...

Broken heart syndrome is also known as stress cardiomyopathy or takotsubo syndrome. Symptoms are similar to a heart attack and occur when a person experiences severe emotional or physical stress. When ...

Anyone who has ever suffered from a broken heart knows how painful it can be. But the hurt goes well beyond feeling sad. An unwanted breakup or a divorce can actually affect your physical and mental ...

When my heart breaks, it feels like I'm drowning—it is pain so raw it seems endless. Yet this is no isolated incident; to be human is to love, and to love is to risk loss. We cannot separate life from ...

The study looked at 1,604 people in nine countries, including the U.S. One in six people with broken heart syndrome had cancer, according to an international study across nine countries, including the ...

As it turned out, that tragedy hastened Catherine’s decline. Only 15 months later, she also passed, aged 70. Now I want to ...

I say this over and over, but it's true every time: there is nothing worse than a broken heart. And in spite of what some novels and movies might tell you, no one dies from a broken heart — and ...

Can cancer break your heart? A new study suggests that there's a link between cancer and a condition called broken heart syndrome. The study, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart ...

More Americans are living with a broken heart, and that painful feeling now comes with a severe diagnosis, a new study shows. A peer-reviewed study published by the Journal of the American Heart ...

Whether it was the breakup of a deep romantic relationship, betrayal by a person you believed to be a good friend or an unpredictable, traumatic experience that rocked the ground underneath you, ...