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 ...

Individual hearts break for a nearly infinite number of reasons, but the one constant is that everyone finds themselves heartbroken at some point in their lives. Whether it’s from grieving the death ...

It’s not just the stuff of sad songs and tragic novels—broken heart syndrome is a real medical condition, and it turns out that men are more vulnerable to its deadly embrace. Sure, you might envision ...

The team from Planet Money looks into obscure laws that allow a spouse to sue someone for contributing to the breakup of their marriage. Now, from the Planet Money team, we have the story of a legal ...

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 ...

When the phrase “broken heart” comes to mind, you may think of a picture or drawing of a heart ripped in half with jagged edges running down the middle of each side. This image has come to symbolize ...

Exactly a year before I found myself in the hospital, my father had died after a fall at home. Regulations required an autopsy. Afterwards, I had to identify his body before it could be released for ...

When the enigmatic street artist Banksy spray-painted a heart-shaped balloon covered with a Band-Aid on the wall of a Brooklyn warehouse, the nondescript brick building was instantly transformed into ...

It’s the story of an all-consuming, heartwrenching breakup and a mother’s disdain for anything unseemly. It’s the song that embodies the cutting judgment behind the southern “bless your heart” ...