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Cell phones okay, pacemakers not so lucky

Posted on Mar 12th 2007 8:44AM by Rigel Celeste
Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss
So a couple of news bits came out together at the end of last week:

#1 Cell phones are, after all, okay to use in hospitals. This is good news not because I think people need to spend more time on their mobile phones than they already do, but if there's any place that deserves the right for impromptu or impulsive phone calls it's in a hospital, where lives can change in mere moments.

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#2 Store anti-theft devices (the kind that stand on either side of the entrance) may cause pacemakers and internal defibrillators to malfunction. It's only happened two times (documented times, anyway), but that's enough to cause some concern, obviously.

Ironic, somehow.

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