Posts Tagged ‘pacemaker’

Do Not Get Your Grandpa an iPod for Christmas

Wednesday, November 12, 2008 15:52 No Comments

Apparently, there is a problem with using headphones if you have a pacemaker or an implanted defibrillator. 
“Headphones contain magnets, and some of these magnets are powerful,” said the study’s leader, Dr. William Maisel, a cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston and a heart device consultant to the federal Food and Drug Administration.
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