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To: Don Dorsey who wrote (31508)	3/27/1998 11:12:00 AM
From: DiViT	Respond to of 50808

Digital-TV interference prompts medical advisory techweb.cmp.com By George Leopold WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration and the Federal Communications Commission have issued a public health advisory warning U.S. hospitals and health-care facilities that digital TVs can interfere with medical devices and indicating how to avoid it. The warning stems from an incident last month in which a DTV signal from Dallas station WFAA-TV interfered with medical devices that were using the same portion of broadcast spectrum. "The new TV signal interfered with the hospital's telemetry system and rendered it unusable," the FDA advisory said, confirming earlier reports. "A second hospital in the same city was also affected." ...