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Parents should think twice before giving in to a middle-schooler's demands for a cell phone, some scientists say, because potential long-term health risks remain unclear.

Researchers have speculated for more than 10 years that the electromagnetic radiation (search) emitted from cell phones may damage DNA and cause benign brain tumors (search), said Henry Lai, a bioengineering professor at the University of Washington.

"We don't know very much about the health effects of cell phone use on kids, but there are speculations," Lai said.

In Britain, the chairman of the National Radiological Protection Board advised in January that parents should not give mobile phones to children age 8 or younger as a precaution against the potential harm of radiation from the devices.

When you use a cell phone, 70 to 80 percent of the energy emitted from the antenna is absorbed by the head, Lai said.
Several research studies have pointed to the potential impacts of long-term absorption of cell phone-emitted radiation but little of the research has focused on the children.

Lai said he was concerned about the impact on children because young skulls are thinner and the growing brain may be more susceptible to radiation.

He also said that because brain tumors usually take 30-40 years to develop, children who use cell phones from their teen years onward would have a longer period of time to see a cumulative impact.
Last week, a federal appeals court in Maryland reinstated five class-action lawsuits claiming that the cell phone industry has failed to protect consumers from unsafe levels of radiation.
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  • The WHO organization can show it up their collective asses! There's no radiation exposure from any damned cellphones and I for one am sick and tired of seeing our papers here put this BULLSHIT in them!

  • This idiot doesn't realize how information is sent through radio waves. They are sent through a binary signal, and is interpreted by the receiver.

    It's not simply being a packet, they are then subdivided into bits, either 1 or 0. On or OFF.

  • We also don't have a way to defend against gamma, and x-rays. Should we stop curing cancer and using x-rays in medicine cause we don't understand it completely?

    What this idiot doesn't realize is that radio waves are a form of light. Earth has been hit by radio waves ever since the sun started fusion.

  • thank you

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