New Study Says Cell Phones Don't Raise Cancer Risk
from the bleep-where-you-at-dog dept
The question of whether or not mobile phones cause cancer has been widely debated in medical journals -- and in the courts. But British researchers have completed the largest-ever study on the matter, concluding that mobile phone usage doesn't increase the chance a person will develop the most common type of brain tumor. Most of the studies have found no increased risk of brain cancer, but given the relatively short time people have had phones, the long-term effects remain uncertain.
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Steering Wheels As A Leading Industrial Killer
Or so I'm learning in my occupational medicine class -- bizarre occupational hazards you never heard of. Last week we learned about deadly beryllium toxins in our cell phones.
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Re: Steering Wheels As A Leading Industrial Killer
Don't eat steering wheels or cellular phones.
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Re: Steering Wheels As A Leading Industrial Killer
Back to the point of this story, or at least a sidebar, cell phones don't cause sparks/fires while pumping your gas eigther (thank you MYTHBUSTERS). goes to show what happens when someone getws a crazy, untested/proven idea and runs with it.
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brain cancer?
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Re: brain cancer?
Back to the point of this story, or at least a sidebar, cell phones don't cause sparks/fires while pumping your gas eigther (thank you MYTHBUSTERS). goes to show what happens when someone getws a crazy, untested/proven idea and runs with it.
I thought they had those policies so people would pay attention to what they were doing while they were filling up?
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Re: brain cancer?
No, somebody thought that the phones increased static build up which of course would increase the chance of a spark. Turns out they were wrong.
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Re: brain cancer?
fields applied biological processes. The common approach to
epidemiological studies assume a linear relationship between
dose and effect. But the effects of EM fields fall into
amplitude and frequency windows. I believe this is a result
of their influence on protein folding. In any case, the effect
on intercellular calcium ion transport is well known.
I wouldn't rush to a conclusion either on either side of the
issue yet. Be prudent, limit your exposure.
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true?
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Re: absolutely true
You are correct in the fact that cell phones do do something to you - they increase your age. Cells phones increase your age by a matter of 1 minute per every 1 minute that you are using them. Several studies on this topic have been done and the results all point to this being the absolute truth!
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