MRI scans to be made safe for pacemakers
(AP)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061010/ap_on_he_me/healthbeat_mris___pacemakers"><img src="http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061009/capt.d3756ff50acd428d9bd64c3f8b7feb4d.mris_and_pacemakers_wx104.jpg?x=97&y=130&sig=AkR0SAUjdohhvblJZCTJyQ--" align="left" height="130" width="97" alt="This undated photo provided by Johns Hopkins Medicine shows Hopkins cardiologist and electro-physiologist Henry Halperin, M.D., professor of medicine, radiology and biomedical engineering, in front of an MRI scanner with several modern implantable heart devices that were tested as safe to use during a scan. (AP Photo/John Hopkins Medicine)" border="0" /></a>AP - More than 2 million Americans depend on pacemakers or defibrillators to keep their hearts beating right, but those lifesaving implants come with a price: They're not allowed in MRI machines, leaving these patients out of luck if they later need scans to detect cancer, stroke or myriad other ailments. That's poised to change.</p><br clear="all"/>