Broken heart syndrome sounds like something out of a romance novel. But it’s a bona fide medical condition that feels like a full-blown heart attack—and research reveals it’s especially common in ...

Feel free to cry over a pint of ice cream — but it’s not what’s going to mend your broken heart. Takotsubo cardiomyopathy — commonly known as broken heart syndrome — is a very real condition that is ...

Broken heart syndrome occurs when part of the heart muscle weakens suddenly, causing the base of the heart to squeeze abnormally while the rest balloons outward. Unlike a heart attack, which is caused ...

A study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association reveals surprising gender differences in both incidence and mortality rates of takotsubo cardiomyopathy, commonly known as broken ...

It might sound like something from a romance novel, but it is possible to die from a broken heart. However, some people are much more vulnerable to this condition than others. Newsweek spoke to ...