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Human immune system is indeed amazing! It’s actually a group of cells that communicate via chemical messages to regulate your bodily function. Strong immune system is an essential requirement for a healthy body. Nevertheless, some factors stated herein may have caused your immune system going downhill. Following with these changes, you catch flu or cold more often because your weakened immune system can’t work properly to fight against foreign organisms and infections at its peak efficiency.Human immune system is indeed amazing! It’s actually a group of cells that... more
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Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart pacemakers and implantable defibrillators, U.S. researchers said on Sunday.
The MP3 players themselves posed no threat to pacemakers and defibrillators, used to normalize heart rhythm. But strong little magnets inside the headphones can foul up the devices if placed within 1.2 inches of them, the researchers told an American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans.
Dr. William Maisel of the Medical Device Safety Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in Boston led a team that tested eight models of MP3 player headphones, including clip-on and earbud types, in 60 defibrillator and pacemaker patients.
They placed the headphones on the patients' chests, directly over the devices. The headphones interfered with the heart devices in about a quarter of the patients -- 14 of the 60 -- and interference was twice as likely in those with a defibrillator than with a pacemaker.
Another study presented at the meeting showed that cellular phones equipped with wireless technology known as Bluetooth are unlikely to interfere with pacemakers.
A pacemaker sends electrical impulses to the heart to speed up or slow cardiac rhythm. The magnet, however, could make it deliver a signal no matter what the heart rate is, possibly leading to palpitations or arrhythmia, the researchers said.
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator signals the heart to normalize its rhythm if it gets too fast or slow. A magnet could de-activate it, making it ignore an abnormal heart rhythm instead of delivering an electrical shock to normalize it.
The devices usually go back to working the right way after the headphones are removed, the researchers said.
"The main message here is: it's fine for patients to use their headphones normally, meaning they can listen to music and keep the headphones in their ears. But what they should not do is put the headphones near their device," Maisel said in a telephone interview.
So that means people with pacemakers or defibrillators should not place the headphones in a shirt pocket or coat pocket near the chest when they are not being used, drape them over their chest or have others who are wearing headphones rest their head on the patient's chest, Maisel said.
Most of the headphones had magnetic field strengths more than 20 times higher than the threshold for interfering with pacemakers or defibrillators, he said. They were made by Sony Corp, Philips Electronics and others.
MP3 players like Apple Inc's iPod are popular consumer electronic devices. In January, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration researcher said the iPod is unlikely to interfere with pacemakers because it does not produce enough of an electromagnetic field to interfere with the devices.
Brian Markwalter of the Consumer Electronics Association industry group urged consumers to inform themselves about proper use of products with magnets, and encouraged people with pacemakers to understand how headphones can be used safely.Headphones used with MP3 digital music players like the iPod may interfere with heart... more
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Yummy! Boxes of raw meat and animal carcasses have been found dumped near Llanelli's Millennium Coastal Park.
The seven boxes of butchers' waste weighing about a quarter of a tonne were found on the verge at Burry Port Woodlands on the weekend. Carmarthenshire council said it was a serious environmental health hazard.
The Welsh Food Fraud Agency, part of the Food Standards Agency, has been asked to investigate documentation and identifying detail on the packaging. The council said if a business was found to have deliberately dumped the waste it could face fines in excess of £10,000.
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A woman has been denied her ninth boob job because she’s reached the legal limit for silicone in the body.
Sheyla Hershey, 28, can't use the excuse of having had children to account for her enormous boobs. With only one kid, eight past surgeries in the last five years is definitely the culprit for her size 34FFF bras.
Determined to get move up to size 34GG even though the U.S. forbids it, she’s planning on going to her home country of Brazil to get the job done.A woman has been denied her ninth boob job because she’s reached the legal limit... more
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Eight Italian policemen and three other people have been injured in clashes over the site of a new rubbish dump in a densely populated suburb of Naples.
Most injuries occurred overnight but two police were hurt in the morning, trying to remove a bus being used as a barricade near the site in Chiaiano.
The site is one of 10 approved by the new government in a bid to end a crisis over uncollected rubbish in Naples.
Some fear the proximity of the dump could affect local people's health.
"The situation in Chiaiano remains tense with residents appearing determined to resist the use of a local stone quarry as a landfill," the BBC's David Willey reports.
Thousands of tonnes of uncollected rubbish have been lying in the streets of Naples and surrounding towns since Christmas, creating a health hazard.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced tough new measures earlier this week to try to solve the rubbish crisis.
But his decision to call in the army to help is causing discontent, with the military saying it is not their job to take up shovels and guns against the wishes of Neapolitans.
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Football fans: Don't forget to breath! For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday's Super Bowl won't be just a game. It may be a health hazard. Heart attacks and other cardiac emergencies doubled in Munich, Germany, when that nation's soccer team played in World Cup matches, a new study reports.
While history suggests European soccer fans can get a bit more worked up than the average American football fan, doctors think there are some valid warnings to be shared.
"I know a little bit about the Super Bowl," study author Dr. Gerhard Steinbeck of Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich said in a telephone interview. "It's reasonable to think that something quite similar might happen."
Football fans: Don't forget to breath! For rabid fans of the New York Giants and... more
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Confessions of an F-9 Addict who worked for GeneDome Corperation. Go deeper into the mystery that has so many on the net talking. Is it real? Could it be. Why haven't we heard of this anywhere else? Is there a black out of info?Confessions of an F-9 Addict who worked for GeneDome Corperation. Go deeper into the... more
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