Report: iPods unlikely to interfere with pacemakers
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Feb 1, 2008 at 1:30pm
Contrary to earlier speculation, oortable media players such as iPods are unlikely to interfere with heart pacemakers, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher reported on Thursday. According to a Reuters report the tests of a variety of iPods showed they did not produce enough of an electromagnetic field to interfere with the devices.
FDA researcher Howard Bassen and colleagues set up a experiment using a saline-filled bag to simulate the human body and a coil sensor designed to pick up electromagnetic emissions, the article adds. All their measurements indicated the iPods could not affect cardiac pacemakers, they reported in the BioMedical Engineering OnLine journal.
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