The Wyze 47c smart watch has a battery strong enough to last nine days. But its magnets can foul up a user's internal heart device. Same goes for most Apple products, both companies acknowledge.

With stronger magnets becoming a more common fixture in the latest smartphones and consumer electronics, medical researchers have been exploring their potential effects on cardiac implants. The ...

My ICD actually emits a loud, ear piercing beep for about 5 seconds whenever it encounters a magnetic field strong enough to disable it. My original Pixel has never done this, even when placed ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning this past week about the effect that magnets in some cell phones and smartwatches can have on pacemakers and other implanted medical devices.

Watchdog readers praise and condemn a report on how some smartwatches and other electronic devices can harm wearers of pacemakers. Karl Mondon - Bay Area News Group / Tribune Content Agency My story ...

Magnets found in commonly used portable electronic devices (PEDs) like wireless earbuds may prevent implantable cardiac devices from giving lifesaving therapies if kept in close contact, according to ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Pacemakers are getting upgraded. An innovative procedure now allows a doctor to communicate with a pacemaker just by putting a magnet over the patient's chest. According to Dr.

Some portable tech devices equipped with powerful magnets can interfere with your heart implant's ability to regulate dangerous irregular heart rhythms, a new study reports. Swiss researchers found ...

Warnings about magnets and gadgets have been passed down like tech folklore, often without much explanation. The reality is more nuanced: some electronics are genuinely vulnerable to magnetic fields, ...

In late November, ResMed issued a safety notice warning that some of the masks used with its CPAP machines contain magnets that could potentially interfere with pacemakers, neurostimulators and other ...