We’ll soon find out, officially. Though a study done by a 17-yeard-old suggests iPods when turned on close to pacemakers make them skip a beat, the medical community has yet to conduct their own “official” study.
Medical researchers at the Children’s Hospital in Boston will begin a major study on how iPods and three other MP3 player brands affect patients with pacemakers. They will prove their hypothesis that “the close approximation of portable MP3 players interfere with the appropriate sensing and recording of pacemakers.”
[via i4u]
February 1st, 2008 at 12:08 pm
[...] official conclusion of a study done by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md. A previous study done by a 17-year-old found suggested that close proximity to an iPod makes pacemakers skip a beat. [...]
February 1st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
[...] noted the possible relationship between the use of iPods and pacemakers skipping a beat. But besides an [...]