Mobile phone safety?

[anhinga_anhinga]

There were some unpleasant findings a year ago.

Now the new study claims that there is no cancer link, but at the same time finds that

A significantly increased risk was found for tumours which developed on the same side of the head as the phone was reported to have been held but this was mirrored by a decrease in the risk on the opposite side of the head making it difficult to interpret as a real effect.

This finding may be due to people with glioma brain tumours linking mobile phone use to the side of the tumour and therefore over reporting the use of a phone on the same side as their tumour. This results in under reporting use on the opposite side of the head, say the authors.

from http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060119232625.htm

On balance it looks to me like we have even more uncertainty about mobile phone safety than before.

Comments

[anhinga-anhinga.livejournal.com]

No, I think mine was sufficiently new (although the newer, the better, I think).

The problem is, after Cingular acquired my carrier (AT&T wireless), the quality of connection gradually deteriorated a lot and keeps getting worse and worse (as you probably noticed ;-)).

;-) Since the purpose of having a cell phone is to be actually able to talk I finally decided to switch...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rowan_tree_/]

Since the purpose of having a cell phone is to be actually able to talk - who told you such nonsense? The purpose of a cell phone is to look cool, play games, and annoy people at lectures and movies. At least that's my observation :-))))

Well, I have one, too. I use it make sure that my kids are OK. If it doesn't ring, things are fine :-)