Can using your cellphone put you at risk of brain cancer? A Swedish study analyzed the results of 1498 people with malignant brain tumours to determine whether their phone use had any effect on their cancer. They found that the longer a person used a cell or cordless phone, the more likely they were to […]
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Are tablets a fun way for kids to learn, or a dangerous health risk? The president of Environmental Health Trust, Dr. Devra Davis, says microwave radiation from our wireless devices pose significant risks to children (City News, 2014). “The radiation from a cellphone, which is a two-way microwave radio, gets twice as deep into the […]
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Press Release N° 208 Key Facts: The WHO/International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans (Group 2B), based on an increased risk for glioma, a malignant type of brain cancer1, associated with wireless phone use.
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The potential health effects of the very low frequency of electromagnetic fields surrounding power lines and electrical devices are the subject of ongoing research and a significant amount of public debate. While electrical and electromagnetic fields in certain frequency bands have fully beneficial effects which are applied in medicine, other non-ionising frequencies…
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