The Washington Post, February 14th, 2005
"How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?," the three wise men known as the Bee Gees once asked, an apt question to ponder on Valentine's Day. Apparently it's not so easy. The truth, meaning the real scientific lab-tested truth, has been hidden all these years in songs too sad for disco: A bad breakup, a parent's death, even a nasty argument can literally break your heart, or cause "left ventricular dysfunction," according to a survey of 19 patients published in the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. (The patients all survived, thanks to a medical intervention.) After a rigorous exp...
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