February 3, 2006
Brain tumour risk rises in mobile users: studies
It's impossible to get worked up about this latest study (how many have there been, dozens??) stating people who have used mobile phones for 10 years or more have an increased risk of brain tumours. But here it is nevertheless. [via The Sydney Morning Herald]
"A correlation between the tumour's location and the side of the head where people reported they held the phone was found in two of the studies by three different research groups.
Two of the studies, one in Britain and one in Germany, are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organisation to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by mobile phones.
An earlier Interphone study, reported in October 2004 by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumour called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of mobile phone use, but not for glioma."
Relevant:
-- Cell Phone Case Allowed to Proceed in DC Court - A federal judge in Maryland ruled this week that a class action complaint challenging the cell phone industry's failure to disclose safety issues relating to certain phones sold to consumers in Washington, D.C. and Maryland could proceed in state court.
.. The complaint also challenges defendants' failure to disclose the true meaning of their "Specific Absorption Rate" levels for their cell phones.
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