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Give Your Special Someone the Love Sausage for Valentine's DayWhat does your special friend want for Valentine’s Day? Maybe a heavy sausage delivered with a pair of firm eggs? That’s how you should wake her up in the morning. She’ll appreciate the surprise.Marks & Spencer, the British retailer, will help you get your partner in a loving mood. Once again, it is offering its famous “Love Sausage”—a bacon-wrapped tube of sausage with two eggs in the center. It’s shaped like a heart, so it’s actually classy, right?The Daily Mail informs us that this package will go on sale starting on February 9 for £6 ($8.10 USD).-via Dave Barry | Photo: Marks & Spencer#sausage #ValentinesDay #heart #bacon

The Optimum Bedtime to Save Your HeartWhat time do you normally go to bed? A consistent bedtime has long been considered a strategy for getting enough sleep, but now science has determined that there's one bedtime hour that is the best for your heart health: 10 PM to 11 PM. A study of 88,000 adults kept track of their activities by an accelerometer they wore, so the exact time they went to bed was recorded. The average age of the participants was 61, and in the following six years, 3,172 of them had cardiovascular events, such as heart attack, stroke, or heart failure. When researchers crunched the numbers, it turns out people who went to bed between 10 and 11 were the least likely to experience such an event. There was a 12% greater risk for those whose bedtime was between 11 and midnight, and a 25% higher risk for those who stayed up past midnight. Those who fell asleep earlier in the evening had a 24% increase in risk. Curiously, women were more affected by a bedtime later than 11, and men were more affected by going to bed before 10 PM. The effect was seen even when controlling for other lifestyle factors.Read more about this study at NBC.  -via Fark #sleep #bedtime #heart #heartdisease

First Surgical Implant of Total Artificial Heart in the USAA team of surgeons at Duke University Hospital has successfully implanted a new-generation commercially-available total artificial heart, the first of such achievement in the USA. The patient was a 39-year-old man who suffered a heart failure.The Aeson artificial heart was developed by French company CARMAT, who obtained FDA approval in the USA to enroll patients with end-stage biventricular heart failure for a study.  The artificial heart uses biological valves derived from bovine tissues and operates on an external power supply.CARMAT’s artificial heart is designed to provide a temporary device for patients waiting for heart transplant surgeries. “Because of the shortages of donor hearts, many patients die while waiting for a heart transplant,” said transplant surgeon Jacob Schroder, who led the implant procedure. “We are hopeful for new options to help these patients, many like [the patient] who have devastating disease and cannot otherwise be considered for a transplant.”#heart #surgery #transplant #hearttransplant #transplantsurgery #artificialheart #CARMAT

Perseverance Mars Rover Left a "Heart" Shaped TracksDuring its ninth flight on July 5, 2021, NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity captured this image of a "heart" left by the rover Perseverance.In the image above, you can see the heart made by the car-sized Mars rover when it took a small detour before proceeding on its way.Well, we love you too, Perseverance!via Space#NASA #Mars #PerseveranceRover #IngenuityHelicopter #love #heart