Cardiologists at the Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute have found that the magnet in the iPhone 12 can disrupt the function of a life-saving defibrillator or pacemaker. The discovery has potential ...

INTRODUCTION: There are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually, or 1,000 daily, in the United States with nearly 90% of them being fatal. 1 These statistics paint a grim image when ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A novel implantable cardioverter defibrillator platform may benefit patients with HF not eligible for cardiac ...

Using light pulses as a model for electrical defibrillation, scientists developed a method to assess and modulate the heart function. The research team has thus paved the way for an efficient and ...

The patient characteristics, study methods, and results have been published in detail. [3,4,9,10] In brief, the study was a randomized, open-label study to assess the effects of adding or not adding a ...

The life-saving function of an implantable defibrillator can be disrupted by the magnet in an iPhone 12, according to cardiologists at the Henry Ford Heart & Vascular Institute. Henry Ford Health ...

There are increasing concerns the new Apple iPhone 12 could interfere with implantable cardiac devices such as pacemakers, presenting a risk for people with heart problems. The issue relates to a ...