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- Signalife: Electricity in the Body
- eMedicineHealth: Palpitations
- The Sydney Morning Herald: Power from blood could lead to 'human batteries." Aug. 4, 2003
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- Electricity in the Body. Ask a Scientist. http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99800.htm
- Electricity in the Body. Signalife. http://www.signalife.com/Pages/WhitePapers/WP-ElectricityInTheBody.pdf
- Electricity's Spark of Life. Science News for Kids. http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20031001/Feature1.asp
- The Heart Electric System. Children's Heart Institute. http://childrensheartinstitute.org/educate/heartwrk/elechhse.htmPalpitations.
- eMedicineHealth. http://www.emedicinehealth.com/palpitations/article_em.htm
- Power from blood could lead to 'human batteries." The Sydney Morning Herald. August 4, 2003. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/03/1059849278131.html
