Mobile-phone Industry: Tumour Study 'very Selective'
News The mobile industry has hit back at a neurosurgeon's study that claimed there is evidence of a link between mobile phones and certain types of brain tumour. Entitled Mobile Phone-Brain Tumour: Public Health Advisory, the study is a meta-analysis of...
[April 1, 2008, 14:22]
Neurosurgeon: Mobile Phones 'worse Than Smoking'
News The report states: "The 'incubation time' or 'latency' (ie, the time from commencement of regular mobile-phone usage to the diagnosis of a malignant solid brain tumour in a susceptible individual) may be in the order of 10 to 20 years.
[April 1, 2008, 8:57]
Will Nobody Think Of The Bees?
Blog One of the few figures quoted is that "an official Finnish study" (so much better than the unofficial sort) showed that if you get a brain tumour, it's "40 percent more likely" to show up on the same side as you use your mobile phone.
[April 22, 2007, 22:42]
Study Links Mobile Emissions To Tumours
News Although the study's findings primarily focused on mobile phone radiation's impact on the blood-brain barrier, Dariusz Leszczynski believes that exposure to mobile phone radiation interferes with human cell lifecycles in a manner that could...
[June 20, 2002, 9:44]
BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
Talkback My sister was diagnosed with brain cancer.She has had radium treatment(14 sessions).The dr's has no further treatment to give.She has now developed shingles on her abdomen.She lost her speech when they did a biopsy to see how old the tumour is...
[January 22, 2004, 8:08]
Mobile Risk: Could Cancer Lawsuits Come To Europe?
News Dr Chris Newman, a neurologist from Maryland, claims that frequent use of his Motorola mobile phone between 1992 and 1998 caused a brain tumour. If mobiles were found to cause brain damage, then the first-time importer would be liable.
[August 4, 2000, 10:20]
Scientists Find No Link Between Mobiles And Ear Tumours
News An acoustic neuroma is a benign tumour that develops on a nerve between the brain and the inner ear, and can be life-threatening. The research, which was carried out at the New York University Medical Centre, involved 90 people who have a type of...
[April 23, 2002, 17:21]
BodyTechnic: Cancer Treatment Spares Healthy Tissue
News The photon radiosurgery system (PRS) uses an NEC V25+ 16bit CISC microcontroller with an enhanced X86 instruction to control a beam of therapeutic radiation delivered to tumour sites. If this new system works, all the radiotherapy can be done at...
[December 3, 1998, 14:19]
Mobile Phone Manufacturers Work On Cancer Shields
News The Swedish study did not discover any connection between tumour and digital phones -- such as today's GSM handsets. The mobile phone industry has consistently denied claims that mobile handsets can cause cancer, despite some concerns that using...
[June 11, 2001, 9:41]
2000 Roundup: August Is Hot For Health
News He charged the company with causing him to develop a malignant brain tumour through using its phones. The start of the year yielded little interesting news for the medicine and health industry followed by a second half chock-full of technological...
[January 1, 2001, 6:17]
Doctor Sues Over Mobile Irradiation
News An American doctor is suing Motorola and US telco Verizon Communications for £530m claiming the companies' wireless devices have given him brain cancer. Dr Chris Newman of Maryland launched the suit against the companies in Baltimore City Circuit...
[August 3, 2000, 12:15]
