Here is good news that should help to counteract some of the hysteria caused by one librarian and a college president recently. Click on the link below to see the full text. Note that the study was not funded in any way by any wireless companies.<br><a href='http://billkosloskymd.typepad.com/wirelessdoc/2007/02/pts_with_pacema.html'>Wireless Doc: Patients with pacemakers and ICDs needn't fear Wi-Fi</a>
<p>This is a report on one of the sessions at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association in which cardiac surgeon Dr. Fritz Mellert presented the results of his study of Wi-Fi transmitters and their possible effect on pacemakers and implantable defibrillators at the University of Bonn, Germany. It should be noted that this study was
free of commercial funding.</p>
<p><a href='http://www.internalmedicinenews.com/article/PIIS109786900674690X/fulltext#'>According to Internal Medicine News</a>, Dr Mellert...</p><blockquote><p>Â…placed
25 pacemakers and 22 implantable cardioverter defibrillators made by
all of the major device manufacturers at varying distances from
wireless local area network (WLAN) transmitting antennas in order to
study the potential for electromagnetic interference with device
function. He subjected the cardiac devices to WLAN transmitting powers
of both 100 mW, the upper limit in Europe, and 1,000 mW, the maximum
output power permitted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.</p></blockquote><br></br><br></br><br></br>Technorati Tags: <a rel='tag' href='http://technorati.com/tag/Health' class='performancingtags'>Health</a>, <a rel='tag' href='http://technorati.com/tag/WiFi' class='performancingtags'>WiFi</a>
