Cell Phones, No Adverse Health Effects?

Filed in archive Cancer , Investigational on September 13, 2007

These days, almost everybody is using a mobile phone. In fact I have been dependent on mobile phones for almost ten years now, I cannot even imagine a day without a cellphone. Anyway, in this technological age, if you do not have a cellphone, it would seem like you are not included in the turning of the globe in its axis.

But all these mobile phones and the base stations must have some adverse effects on our health?

Previous studies have already disputed that mobile telephone technology has no adverse effects on health and is not in any way associated to brain cancer.

Mobile phones have not been found to be associated with any biological or adverse health effects, according to the UK's largest investigation into the possible health risks from mobile telephone technology.

The mobile telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme published its conclusions on September 12 as part of its 2007 Report.

The six-year research programme, chaired by Professor Lawrie Challis, Emeritus Professor of Physics at The University of Nottingham, has found no association between short term mobile phone use and brain cancer. Studies on volunteers also showed no evidence that brain function was affected by mobile phone signals or the signals used by the emergency services (TETRA).

I haven't really thought about it, even though I have been using mobile phones for a long time.

What do you think?

Find more details from University of Nottingham.