41 h. ago Here’s how you can officially mend a broken heart – according to scientists

New research has revealed that exercise and therapy could cure ‘broken-heart syndrome’, diagnosed in 5,000 Britons every year

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49 h. ago Exercise and therapy can mend a broken heart, study suggests

Takotsubo syndrome can lead to heart failure and early death. But doctors now believe it can be treatedDoctors may have discovered the secret to mending a broken heart in a world-first clinical trial.Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are living with takotsubo cardiomyopathy, known as broken heart syndrome, which causes the heart muscle to change shape and suddenly weaken. It is usually triggered by severe emotional or physical stress, such as losing a loved one. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Funeral director Amie Upton hits back at fury she 'left dead baby watching cartoons'

Amie Upton, from Harehills, Leeds, says her "heart is broken" by the complaints against her and was just "trying to help" grieving families after her own tragedy

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62 h. ago Simple daily activity could help protect against little known deadly syndrome that strikes thousands of Brits after a bereavement, experts discover

Exercising through the trauma of bereavement can protect against 'broken heart syndrome', a study suggests.

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62 h. ago You can die from 'broken heart syndrome', but scientists may have found a cure

Scientists at the world’s biggest heart conference say they may have discovered the first ever treatment for ‘broken heart syndrome’

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4 d. ago Funeral director accused of watching cartoons with dead baby breaks her silence

Amie Upton, 38, has been accused of leaving a mum 'screaming' and 'terrified' after seeing her dead child sat in a baby bouncer. She says her 'heart is broken' by the complaints against her

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1 week ago Katie Price reveals true love of her life and it's not one of her husbands

Katie Price has been married three times and has had a string of high-profile relationships, but she says there's only one man who has truly broken her heart

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2 w. ago Katabasis by RF Kuang review – a descent into the hellscape of academia

The bestselling author’s sixth novel is far from perfect, but this journey into the underworld is delivered with heretical gleeThe more academia has broken your heart, the more you’ll love RF Kuang’s new novel. Katabasis knows the slow grind of postgrad precarity: the endless grant grubbing and essay marking; the thesis chapters drafted, redrafted and quietly ignored by a supervisor who can’t be bothered to read – let alone reply to – an email. Living semester to semester, pay shrinking, workload metastasising, cannon fodder in a departmental forever war. Katabasis knows how it feels to spend your best thinking years doing grunt work to further someone else’s ideas, clinging to the bottom rung of a ladder you will never be allowed to climb: less an ivory tower than a pyramid scheme.Academia is a hellscape; Katabasis just makes it literal. The American author’s sixth novel is an infernal twist on the campus farce: David Lodge with demons. Kuang’s previous book, 2023’s Yello...

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2 w. ago 'My son was murdered by his dad, now seeing daughter grow is bittersweet'

"My heart is forever broken. A piece will always be missing"

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3 w. ago Scientists FINALLY crack the mystery of chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists have discovered why people with the debilitating condition, which causes chronic fatigue, develop the disease.

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3 w. ago Scientists find link between genes and ME/chronic fatigue syndrome

Large study suggests people’s genetics could ‘tip the balance’ on whether they would develop the illnessScientists have found the first robust evidence that people’s genes affect their chances of developing myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a mysterious and debilitating illness that has been neglected and dismissed for decades by many in the medical community.Early findings from the world’s largest study into the genetics of the condition pinpointed eight regions of the human genome that were substantially different in people with an ME/CFS diagnosis compared to those without the illness. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Sally Hawkins says starring in Paddington 3 would have ‘broken her heart’

Actor starred as Mrs Brown in the first two films in the family franchise

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