With stronger magnets becoming a more common fixture in the latest smartphones and consumer electronics, medical researchers have been exploring their potential effects on cardiac implants. The ...

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

The Wyze 47c smart watch has a battery strong enough to last nine days. But its magnets can foul up a user's internal heart device. Same goes for most Apple products, both companies acknowledge.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Pacemakers are getting upgraded. An innovative procedure now allows a doctor to communicate with a pacemaker just by putting a magnet over the patient's chest. According to Dr.

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

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning this past week about the effect that magnets in some cell phones and smartwatches can have on pacemakers and other implanted medical devices.

Watchdog readers praise and condemn a report on how some smartwatches and other electronic devices can harm wearers of pacemakers. Karl Mondon - Bay Area News Group / Tribune Content Agency My story ...

My ICD actually emits a loud, ear piercing beep for about 5 seconds whenever it encounters a magnetic field strong enough to disable it. My original Pixel has never done this, even when placed ...

Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports. Swiss researchers found ...

A Mean Scoil an Chlochair transition year project is shining a light on the realities of living with a pacemaker and ...