could encounter every day are strong enough to interfere with the devices, changing their settings, with consequences ranging from negligible to life-threatening, according to a report scheduled for ...

Over one million people in Spain live with pacemakers, ICDs or cardiac resynchronisation devices. The introduction of the ...

A study published this week in Heart Rhythm supported recommendations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that patients keep consumer electronic devices that may create magnetic interference, ...

Some specialists believe there’s an even easier solution. Manuel Martínez-Sellés, head of Acute Cardiac Care at Madrid’s ...

Magnets used in portable devices including cellphones and smart watches may impair pacemakers and affect other implanted devices, the Food and Drug Administration warned Thursday. The FDA advises ...

Do headphones interact with implanted cardiac devices? A researcher at Harvard University studied that question and is now suggesting that you shouldn’t place headphones for Mp3 players in close ...

Before any Democrats buy Dick Cheney an iPod for Christmas let's be clear on what researchers are saying. (Picture from Wonkette, covering the same territory as this blog post.) What they have found ...

Relatively weak magnets in consumer products have always posed some risk, usually very low, to the function of pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). However, stronger, ...

This week, Apple published clarifications to its support documents to address consumer concern that, because of the presence of the MagSafe magnet system in new iPhones, the iPhone 12 and its 2020 ...