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  Mobile phone use and cancer linked - Telegraph 

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/08/30/nmobile130.xml

  A study found that exposure to mobile phone signals for just five minutes stimulated human cells to split in two - a process that occurs naturally when tissue grows or rejuvenates, but that is also central ... to the development of cancer. Previous research on the safety of mobile use has led to conflicting conclusions, with some suggesting links with tumours in the nervous system and others finding no risks. The six-year Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research Programme, which provided £8.4 million of Government and industry funding for 25 studies, is expected to present its final report next month. Official guidance that mobile phones were safe was based on the mainstream scientific assumption that electromagnetic radiation from such devices could damage cells and tissue only by heating them. But the new research, reported in this week's New Scientist, supports the position of those researchers who argue that handsets can trigger potentially harmful changes to cells irrespective of   [More...] [Less...]

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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...]

  First added: 20 November 2007, by: Jutta Schrimpf  [Report as spam]

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  Study of cell phone's safety urged 

  http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/Non-f_ood_Things_27/012501462007_Study_of_cell_phone_s_safety_urged.shtml

  FRIDAY JAN 25, 2008 (Foodconsumer.org) -- The U.S. National Research Council advised on Thursday that research should be carried out to see if cell phones or other wireless devices could damage health ... in children and pregnant women. Studies on the effect of cell phone or mobile phone on health are inconsistent as always when it comes to something that may affect the use of a commercial product. Some studies found a link between use of cell phone and increased risk of tumors. Some studies suggested otherwise. The ABCNews.com reported that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requests the National Research Council to recommend types of research that should be done in the future. The Council, an advisory body which advises Congress and the federal government on scientific matters, convened experts including engineers and biologists and made its recommendations including the call for research into cell phone's safety. The report by the Council says most studies have looked only at short-t   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 30 January 2008, by: Jutta Schrimpf  [Report as spam]

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  Central Chronicle--Opinion 

  http://www.centralchronicle.com/20071128/2811303.htm

  1.5 billion people around the world use cellular phones; however chances are most of these users are unaware of the damage they may be doing to their bodies. According to a four-year research project focused ... on studying the effect of radiation on human and animal cells, researchers found that the radio waves emitted from a cellular phone may harm body cells and damage DNA in laboratory conditions. Although the study did not prove that mobile phones are a risk to one's health, it did indicate that cells exposed to electromagnetic fields, similar to those of mobile phones, showed a significant increase in single and double-strand DNA breaks. This damage could be permanent, not to mention that remaining damage could set the stage for future degeneration of cells. Additional research could take another four or five years. In the meantime, researchers recommend against using a mobile phone when a fixed line phone is available, as well as using a headset connected to a cell phone whenever po   [More...] [Less...]

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  BBC NEWS | Health | Mobiles 'not brain cancer risk' 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7229003.stm

  Mobile phone use does not raise the risk of brain tumours, a Japanese study suggests. The research is the first to look at the effects of hand set radiation levels on different parts of the brain. Tokyo ... Women's Medical University found no increased risk of the three main types of brain cancer among regular mobile phone users. The study, comparing 322 brain cancer patients and 683 healthy people, appears in British Journal of Cancer. The cancer patients had one of the three most common types of brain tumour - glioma, meningioma or pituitary adenoma. The researchers rated each subject according to how many years they had been using a mobile phone, and how long they spent talking on it each day. They studied the radiation emitted from various types of mobile phone, and placed them into one of four categories relating to radiation strength. And they also analysied how each phone was likely to affect different areas of the brain. Lead researcher Professor Naohito Yamaguchi said: "Using our   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 6 February 2008, by: Jutta Schrimpf  [Report as spam]

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