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Cell Phones won’t Kill Your Brain…At Least For Now

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September 13, 2007 |

Have you ever had that feeling while you’re yapping away at your cell phone?  You know, the feeling that your ear is going to fall off?  Or that you may be sending massive amounts of incredibly dangerous microwave rays directly into your gray matter, causing the wholesale slaughter of your few remaining brain cells?

No?  Hmm… I was afraid I might be the only one…

If you have had that feeling, apparently that is all it was, a feeling.  According to a study by the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme, there is no connection between mobile phone use and brain cancer.

I’m certainly glad that’s been cleared up.  I was seriously considering cutting down my cell phone usage over concern of possible brain cancer.  Whatever.  I know that you were really concerned about that, too.

The study has been going on for six years now and has produced no sufficient data to demonstrate any adverse health effects from cell phone usage.  But, there’s one slight disclaimer on the whole study…


Concerns about the long-term effect of mobile phone use, however, will have to wait to be addressed by future research. “[A]t present, very few people have used mobile phones for more than ten years, so it is not possible at present to rule out the detection of an association [between cancer and mobile phone use] at some future date,” the report says.


So we can’t count out any dangers from cell phone usage just yet.

The report did go on to say that cell phone usage while driving does impair drivers but doesn’t impair driving any more than other distractions.  Like trying to reach that bag of fries in the back seat…

Read more details of the report over at InformationWeek.

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