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Did you ever wonder if you could die of a broken heart?  Strong emotions such as grief, anger, fear, or excitement can affect your well-being.

Heartbreak is expressed through fine art on screen, stage, and literature, as well as through music, painting, and sculptures. The fine arts often explore the highs and lows of relationships, hardships, illness, loss, and grief and the devastating impact it has on the human spirit. Many movies, paintings, and literature come to mind, reminding us that heartbreak’s timeless rendezvous with humanity is epic and spans centuries. Heartbreak is a very real and profound part of the human experience. But did you ever think there was an actual physiologic response? Art tells us so and scientists are studying the effects of a broken heart on the b

Health Misinformation is Raging

Health misinformation spreads its tentacles in good times and bad. We have certainly seen the lion’s share of misinformation during the coronavirus pandemic. 

For clarity, let’s define misinformation versus disinformation:

• Misinformation is false or unintentionally inaccurate information.
• Disinformation is deliberately false, misleading information.

Health Misinformation on Social Media and the Internet

While there were no social media during the 1980s, I am old enough to recall the belief that you could contract HIV from casual contact like a hug, kiss, or handshake. Crazy right? K