Music Headphones Can Interfere With Heart Devices: Report
A study found that some headphones can interfere with heart devices such as pacemakers or implanted defibrillators if held very close to them, according to the Associated Press. The study said that it could even go as far as preventing one from delivering a life-saving shock.
“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, in the article.
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