Chronic depression, loneliness and grief are breaking our hearts – literally. New research reveals that poor mental and emotional health puts Americans at much greater risk of heart disease, the ...

Heart attacks are often associated with physical health issues, but emotional experiences can also trigger these life-threatening events. Emotional stress has a significant impact on heart health, and ...

Comfort food might not be as healing as it seems. If you’re feeling down, stressed or heartbroken, it’s all too tempting to go for food that makes you feel happier — but it could also be bad for your ...

A century ago, scientist Karl Pearson was studying cemetery headstones when he noticed something peculiar: Husbands and wives often died within a year of one another. Though not widely appreciated at ...

Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Hikaru Sato and his colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy ...

CLEVELAND (Gray News/TMX) - A young woman who finally received a heart transplant last year after more than 20 surgeries over the course of her life was recently able to meet the parents of her heart ...

I think it’s fair to say that emotional eating is generally demonized. That’s partly because it’s viewed as “out-of-control” eating instead of planned, orderly, “appropriate” eating, but also because ...

Different measures of heart rate variability are indicators of heartfelt emotional contagion between humans and dogs. A good deal of research has clearly shown that dogs and humans read one another ...

This is the first in an exclusive series of columns by Dr. Phil McGraw and Dr. John Whyte on issues involving mental and physical health. Chronic depression, loneliness and grief are breaking our ...