iPods don't interfere with pacemakers, study finds

iPods and other digital music players don't interfere with pacemaker, scientists say, a finding that contradicts a 2007 study. The May 2007 study concluded that errant electronic noise from iPods could cause malfunctions in implantable cardiac pacemakers. But cardiac experts in Boston were surprised by that finding, mostly because many of their young patients with pacemakers use digital music players and have never had problems. The scientists tested their patients and found that the digital music players caused no changes in any of the 255 separate tests and none of the patients showed any symptoms.  Read full story >