Zurich, Switzerland - The zapper, a battery-powered alternative-medicine device used to treat cancer, other chronic illnesses, and self-diagnosed parasites, may put pacemaker patients at risk. In a ...

Both patients and health care professionals should be aware of potential pacemaker interactions in the environment, since cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators are sensitive to many kinds of ...

Patients who have pacemakers or defibrillators are often denied the opportunity to undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) because of safety concerns, unless the devices meet certain criteria ...