Saturday, February 2nd 2008
FDA Report: IPods Are Not Hazardous to Your Health
When a new hit technology comes out, a lot of people tend to buy it. When a lot of different people buy the same thing, there's bound to be a few quirks and problems. There are allegations that iPods can interfere with such critical life-support systems as pacemakers. Neither Apple or the Food and Drug Administration of America took this sitting down, and promptly ran independent studies. Using a fancy scientific procedure that can be found in the source link, the FDA determined that iPods really do not have much, if any, effect on pacemaker operation. However, as big as the scientists from the FDA may be, it's awfully hard to refute the evidence against these findings. Cardiologists were listening to an iPod while performing a routine examination, and noticed a definite effect on the pacemaker. A seventeen year old requiring a pacemaker noticed that he could not hold an iPod within two inches of his chest without causing problems. It should be noted that the FDA only studied four types of iPod, and only used one type of Pacemaker.
Source:
The Sydney Morning Herald
16 Comments on FDA Report: IPods Are Not Hazardous to Your Health
if you have the ear buds in tight, and play the volume really loud, you can partially lose your hearing = an ipod has the capability to be somehow damaging to one's health!
The FDA report is short-sighted and inconclusive!!!
1. This
2. Banning codeine based analgesics in the US (more effective, inexpensive to produce, relatively harmless compared to it's FDA certified alternative, Benedryl derived analgesics).
its all about $, if a lobbist pays a polotition or group of them enought $ they can get anything made leigal/illegal, hell if they tryed hard enought they could probly bet crack leiglized !!!!!!
I wonder what your policy makers thought. That said, I will subscribe to your view that there could be an 'upper hand' in FDA playing the fascist moderator and making the iPod wear the angel's gown while the same FDA made blunders when classifying common off-the-counter drugs (like cough-syrups for kids).
its like why pot/weed is illegal, it has ZERO to do with it being harmfull, it has everything to do with a small group of people who had power and $ wanting it made illegal because they couldnt make any $ off of it, its to easy to grow it yourself for starers, it also would cost alot of sales of other drugs that those companys sold, in this world, not just america/usa nothing speeks louder then $ NOTHING, if you have enought $ to throw at something you can get away with anything..........
The second part of this I would like to retract my statement about the harmful effects of weed. A lot flipping drugs do that even over the counter. :pimp:
The way this topic has changed is really funny, all these things we are now talking about are no way related, and I do have to agree, anything that has electronic moving parts could be bad for pacemakers or any other life sustaining electronic device. It could interfere and cause troubles. Not to say it will but there is that chance
Think about how many things in our nation have been funded from sin taxes alone.
i dont smoke pot, but most people i know around here do, and they are never hard to be around stoned, when drunk they are annoing, i hate drunks!!!!
fucking drunks piss me off.........
humm.....reminds me of a rap song.....lol