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Cell Phone Radiation
Ten years ago, David Reynard said on Larry King's CNN talk show that he
blamed his wife's brain tumor on her cell-phone use. After her death, he sued a
cell-phone carrier and a maker, charging that the phones had health risks.
A federal judge eventually dismissed the lawsuit for lack of scientific
evidence. But questions remain that new research has yet to resolve. More than
70 research papers on the potentially adverse effects of cell-phone use have
been published in the past decade. Some have raised concerns about cancer,
neurological disorders, sleep problems, or headaches; others have shown no
association or were inconclusive.
The major unanswered question: Can exposure to low levels of electromagnetic
energy that the body absorbs from a cell phone be harmful? (A phone emits the
most radiation when you're on a call, but it also emits small amounts
periodically whenever it's turned on.)
The federal government sets upper exposure limits to electromagnetic energy from
cell phones known as the specific absorption rate, or SAR. However, the SAR
limit does not address other effects, such as those from very low levels of
radiation on cells and tissues.
The government's stance on cellular safety comes in this carefully worded but
equivocal statement from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Federal
Communications Commission (FCC): "The available scientific evidence does not
show that any health problems are associated with using wireless phones. There
is no proof, however, that wireless phones are absolutely safe."
In the May 2002 issue of Differentiation, a scientific journal on cellular and
biological research, a Finnish team reported that when human cells were exposed
to cell-phone radiation in lab studies for one hour, protein changes occurred.
One of the altered proteins plays a role in maintaining the blood-brain barrier,
which protects the brain from toxins in the bloodstream.
"The take-home message from these studies is that the low-dose radiation from
cell phones is biologically active, and that we are not transparent to these
signals," says Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News, a newsletter covering
health issues surrounding electromagnetic radiation.
Government agencies or advisory groups in Britain, France, and Germany have
discouraged children from using cell phones largely because of concerns that
their developing nervous system may be especially vulnerable. |
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