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]
Steve Jobs Has Surgery For Cancer
News Apple Computer chief executive Steve Jobs underwent surgery this weekend to remove a cancerous tumour in his pancreas, but told employees in an email that the surgery was successful and said he expects to be back on the job next month.
[August 2, 2004, 8:50]
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]
Scientists Find No Link Between Mobiles And Ear Tumours
News The research, which was carried out at the New York University Medical Centre, involved 90 people who have a type of ear tumour called an acoustic neuroma. An acoustic neuroma is a benign tumour that develops on a nerve between the brain and the...
[April 23, 2002, 17:21]
Neurosurgeon: Mobile Phones 'worse Than Smoking'
News The risk may be as great as a twofold to fourfold increase of developing a tumour on the same side of the head as the "preferred side" for mobile-phone use, the report warns. The report states: "The 'incubation time' or 'latency' (ie, the time from...
[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 New research by Finland's Helsinki-based Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority appears to support long-held claims that mobile phone radiation may promote tumour growth. Although the study's findings primarily focused on mobile phone radiation's...
[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 the impending lawsuit against Motorola is successful in the US, it could force mobile phone...
[August 4, 2000, 10:20]
Time Computers Denies Tales Of Woe
Talkback I feel sorry for all the staff at my old store except the manger, Scott, who was a lanky scottish streak of piss with the charm and charisma of a tumour. I was a technician in the "flagship" store in sheffield for several years.
[July 28, 2005, 10:54]
Microsoft Wins £500m NHS Contract
Talkback My tumour marker and blood count tests are pubished on an AIX based system, which has recently been given a web front end. Its not as if the current system _is_ Windows, bringin in the cost of change.
[November 9, 2004, 10:57]
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]
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 big three mobile phone makers have been working on technology for over eight years to limit the amount of radiation a user is...
[June 11, 2001, 9:41]
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]
