A much-noted study last year raised eyebrows when it suggested that digital music players could set hearts aflutter by interfering with pacemakers.

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When someone has a heart attack, defibrillators are often their best chance to survive. That’s why the Guilford County school system has placed them in 14 high schools, nine middle schools and one elementary school. But to a mother of a student whose life was saved by the device, even that is not enough.

When someone has a heart attack, defibrillators are often their best chance to survive. That’s why the Guilford County school system has placed them in 14 high schools, nine middle schools and one elementary school. But to a mother of a student whose life was saved by the device, even that is not enough.

PENANG: World-renowned cardiovascular medical devices manufacturer St Jude Medical Inc from the US is planning to invest in Penang. Sources said the group planned to invest an initial RM100mil to set up Asia’s first pacemaker manufacturing facility.

A heart cart is coming to Pearson International. It’s being used to educate passengers and airport employees on the use of the more than 190 automated external defibrillators (aeds) that can be found at the airport.

Some quick thinking instructors give a life lesson to a student who couldn’t live without it.

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A scheme enabling off-duty ambulance clinicians to attend local emergencies benefits from a donation.