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iPods Declared Pacemaker-Friendly Once Again

Following rumors that "errant electronic noise" coming from Apple's iPods may cause "implantable" cardiac pacemakers to malfunction, cardiac electrophysiologists at Children's Hospital in Boston have conducted rigorous tests and have concluded that iPods are actually quite safe."Many of our pacemaker patien...

31 March 2008
07:17 GMT

FDA: iPods Don't Interfere with Pacemakers

It has been proved several times in the past that certain devices which emit electro-magnetic waves can and will interfere with pacemakers. The iPod was one of the presumed such devices, following a student's suggestion that the iPod's functions could interfere with heart regulators. Recently though, the Fo...

4 February 2008
04:33 GMT

The Heart's Natural Pacemaker

Looking at a nice girl/boy or running for a few miles, and your heart goes wild. But how does the heart recover its normal pace?Scientists have discovered how we "put the brakes" on a racing heartbeat. A team at the University of Illinois at Chicago has discovered how an enzyme acts on the heart's pacemaker to s...

14 May 2007
07:04 GMT




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