Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Is your cell phone slowly killing you?

CNN: Researchers found that cell phone users had a 10 percent to 30 percent higher risk than people who barely, if ever, used this technology.

SHOOT: I definitely notice I'm agitated and my head is warm the more I'm on the phone.
clipped from www.cnn.com
The longer you speak on the phone, the more risk you may have of getting tumors, some doctors say.

Last summer, Dr. Ronald Herberman, then director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, issued a warning to about 3,000 faculty and staff, listing steps to avoid harmful electromagnetic radiation from cell phones. This included keeping the phone away from the body as much as possible and not allowing children to use cell phones except in emergencies.

A much-anticipated but unreleased report from the World Health Organization on a decade-long investigation called Interphone will show a "significantly increased risk" of some brain tumors "related to use of mobile phones for a period of 10 years or more," the London Daily Telegraph reported in late October. The study will be published before the end of the year, the newspaper said.

Supporting that conclusion, a recent study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology that looked at 23 case-control studies found that the research with the more scientifically rigorous methodologies suggested cell phones and tumors are linked.
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