A Seward fifth grader battling a rare disease known as MPS, or Hurler Syndrome, was honored by her classmates Thursday.

Over the past 19 years, Caleb has received treatment at St. Jude for heart, kidney, and mobility issues related to Hurler’s Syndrome. The virus has already claimed 250,000 lives in the U.S. and ...

Despite affecting women more, men are two times more likely to die from "broken heart syndrome", or Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy.

A study led by a physician-scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson's Sarver Heart Center identified ...

It noted that men are twice as vulnerable to die from what is known as 'broken heart syndrome' than women. Also known as 'takotsubo cardiomyopathy' or 'stress cardiomyopathy', broken heart ...

A new study from the Journal of the American Heart Association found that men die from a condition known as “broken heart syndrome” at more than twice the rate that women do.

or broken heart syndrome, compared to women, despite women comprising most cases. The research, analyzing nearly 200,000 hospitalizations, highlights an alarming 11.2% death rate among men.

The technical term for “broken heart syndrome” is takotsubo cardiomyopathy — and people are diagnosed with it when stress hormones like adrenaline prevent their hearts from properly contracting.

But this syndrome, formally known as Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, continues to be associated with a high rate of death and illness, researchers reported May 14 in the Journal of the American Heart ...