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Mobile phones: A public health time bomb?
News It suggests there is growing evidence of a link between excessive long-term use of mobiles and certain types of brain tumours - reigniting a long-running debate about the safety of the technology. During... [31 Mar 2008]
Is the 'dumb blonde' phone here to stay?
Comment Making utile things beautiful is a trend that's has been dominating the entire consumer electronics industry, as monitor makers, MP3 manufacturers and assorted gadget designers seek to differentiate their products by making them appeal... [07 Aug 2006]
Link between mobiles and tumours found
News A Swedish research institute has released a report that links the use of analogue mobile handsets and a benign tumour - adding fodder to the long-running debate over mobile phones and brain cancer. The concept that... [15 Oct 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: Mobile myth busting
Comment The first is the notion that mobiles are cooking your brain with radio waves. Ever wonder if your mobile phone is really killing your brain cells? And there have been no positive or... [12 Aug 2004]
Nokia: Third-party batteries may melt your phone
News Mobile phone maker Nokia warned on Friday that a growing number of its handsets are being damaged by badly made or counterfeit batteries from other companies. The number of phones destroyed by so-called third-party batteries, sold by... [10 Feb 2003]
Fresh fears over handset radiation
News Professor Leszczynski stressed that the findings did not prove that mobiles were unsafe but said the link between handset radiation and damaged human brain cells was worth exploring further. The... [20 Jun 2002]
Mobile radiation shields as much use as chocolate teapots
News The FTC said it had filed charges against two companies who used unsubstantiated advertising claims like "prevents electromagnetic waves from penetrating the brain" and "blocks up to 99 per cent of the radiation". [21 Feb 2002]
Tests prove mobiles make your brain race
News One week after manufacturers were told they must display radiation levels on all new mobile phones, worrying research has revealed that the warming effects of mobile phones speed up brain function and in the long-term... [24 Sep 2001]
Do mobile phones fry your brain?
Comment Give your brain cancer? On a precautionary principle, you might stop your kids using mobiles, if only because they may never learn to use vowels if you don't. Hands up who knows what SAR means? Anybody? [17 Jul 2001]
Mobile tumour rumours refuse to die
News Monday also saw the publication of a Swedish survey linking an obscure form of benign brain tumour to the use of analogue mobile phones, which are now obsolete. Studies have been appearing regularly for the past five... [11 Jun 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': More mobile health fears, BBC selling out and Orange network woes
Comment While this can be annoying it allows me to get my head/brain out of the way of the radiation of my phone. What is even more significant is that I can also detect when other peoples mobiles are having the... [03 Nov 2000]
Government report labels mobiles 'safe'
News The conclusion of the ten-month investigation, which contains evidence from the National Radiological Protection Board, said mobiles only heat the brain by one-tenth of a degree, whereas the body's... [28 Apr 2000]
Scientist plays down mobile lawsuit fears
News There are plausible biological reasons for saying 'don't expose your body - and in particular your brain - to these devices. I don't think there's a problem for most people using mobiles, but even if 5... [26 Oct 1998]
