What if a broken heart was enough to warrant sick leave? In Japan, this isn't fiction. Tako-Tsubo syndrome, nicknamed "heart ...

Scientists from QIMR Berghofer's Cardiac Bioengineering Lab have developed lab-grown, three-dimensional heart tissues known ...

This means that organs can only be stored for a maximum of four hours on ice before they are rendered useless. Because of this, around 60 percent of donated organs have to be thrown away.

Rarely, this stress can bring on something known as broken heart syndrome, when your heart is flooded with stress hormones ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death around the world. However, overall heart disease death rates over the past five ...

She explained that she first noticed something didn't seem right when she tried to use a tampon as a teenager.

KEY TAKEAWAYS Men with broken heart syndrome face higher mortality rates than women, study finds. Men produce more catecholamines, potentially causing severe syndrome cases, experts suggest.

Born in 1942, he knew nothing of rugby during his early childhood in the Ayrshire village of Tarbolton, where, as he wrote much later in Mighty Mouse, his autobiography, “sport meant football, racing ...

Angela Wilson's life was saved by a heart transplant - an incredible gift made possible by a stranger’s selfless choice. Her story is a moving reminder of how organ donation can turn tragedy into hope ...

The trip to Cambodia was my sister’s idea. “Come visit me,” she’d said when I’d called crying about a recent heart-break. “We can visit the temples and the night markets. And anyway, travel is the ...