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  Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea 

  http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200711/200711050007.html

  If you tend to hold your mobile phone on your cheek or cheekbone when you're talking on it, you might want to reconsider that habit. A team of researchers has found that holding a mobile phone like that ... can lead to an increase in the amount of potentially dangerous electromagnetic waves absorbed into the brain and other body parts. The electronics engineering team led by Prof. Kim Youn-myung at Dankook University said Sunday that they experimented with 12 kinds of handsets to determine how much energy is absorbed from the handsets. They found that the specific absorption rate (SAR) varied by as much as three times depending on how and where the phone is held to the face. According to the study, the lower the microphone of the handset is placed from the mouth and the closer the handset is held to the cheek, the higher the SAR. This was true regardless of the type of handset -- folder or slide -- and the location of the antenna -- internal or external. Yet SAR was slightly lower with sli   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  cancer, cell phone safety, electromagnetic waves, mobile phone safety

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  Mobile phones pose no health risk: German study- Telecom-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times 

  http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Mobile_phones_pose_no_health_risk_German_study/articleshow/3183202.cms

  BERLIN: One in four Germans who worry that mobile phones and their transmission towers are health hazards can now relax following studies coordinated by the Berlin-based Federal Office for Radiation Protection ... (BfS). German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said more than 50 studies in the German Mobile Telecommunications Research Programme (DMF), conducted from 2002 to 2008, had found no evidence that mobile phones and transmission towers posed a health risk within the required limits for electromagnetic radiation. The programme was funded with 17 million euros ($26 million), a small sum compared with the billions of euros that the German government collected when it auctioned licenses for slices of Germany's UMTS airwave spectrum in 2000. Though the country's four mobile network operators provided half of the research funds, the BfS told critics that DMF procedures had ensured the objectivity of the studies. Research focused on the functioning mechanisms of high frequency electroma   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 1 July 2008, by: Jutta Schrimpf  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  electromagnetic waves, mobile phone, radiation, safety