Cell Phone Usage: Is it Making Us Sick?

I am on my cell phone a lot, so this report is interesting to me. I hope their is some difference in the type of phone or the use of handsfree devises. This is something that I hope we take serious and not wait until it becomes a crisis.

A bunch of experts convened by the World Health Organization has decided that cellphones might pose a risk of brain cancer in humans.

The finding that cellphones are a possible carcinogen is a bit of surprise. Only last year, a WHO-organized study of cellphone risks that was the largest conducted to date found scant evidence to support a link between cellphones and brain cancers.

But a group of 31 experts from 14 countries conducted a review of the scientific literature and determined that the evidence, though limited, could support a connection between cellphone use and two types of brain cancer — gliomas and acoustic neuromas. (A summary of the findings is described in this press release.)

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