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Over the last 10 years, you may have heard rumblings about whether the radio waves emitted from your cell phone are capable of causing cancer.Now, a new review commissioned by the World Health ...
A new study released Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association revealed that 50 minutes of continuous cell phone use causes temporary changes in the brain. That period of cell ...
In it, they find “people with the most total hours of mobile phone calls do not have a higher risk of developing a brain tumor compared with light users of mobile phones.” Harb recalled older ...
A mobile phone connects to the telephone network by radio waves exchanged with a local antenna and automated transceiver called a cellular base station (cell site or cell tower). The service area served by each provider is divided into small geographical areas called cells , and all the phones in a cell communicate with that cell's antenna.
Hardell's research on cell phones and cancer concluded that long-term mobile phone use is associated with an increased risk of acoustic neuroma and glioma. [4] [5] He has said that children should be banned from using cell phones except in emergencies, as he feels the risk of cancer is greater in people who begin using mobile phones before the age of 20. [6]
Research suggests that using the Internet helps boost brain power for middle-aged and older people [17] (research on younger people has not been done). The study compares brain activity when the subjects were reading and when the subjects were surfing the Internet. It found that Internet surfing uses much more brain activity than reading does.
LONDON (Reuters) -There is no link between mobile phone use and an increased risk of brain cancer, according to a new World Health Organization-commissioned review of available published evidence ...
Nomophobia [1] (short for "no mobile phobia") is a word for the fear of, or anxiety caused by, not having a working mobile phone. [2] [3] It has been considered a symptom or syndrome of problematic digital media use in mental health, the definitions of which are not standardized for technical and genetical reasons.