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Cell phones - Feds probing health impacts
For cell phone users–all 4 billion worldwide–a Senate hearing today elicited some observations that should give pause. Such as that the risk of certain brain tumors may increase among people who have been heavy cell-phone users for a decade or more. Or that the type of radiation emitted by cell phones can, at least in cellular studies, damage DNA. Or that children have become major users of cell phones and that the radiation emitted by those devices penetrates further into their brains than into their parents'.
To date, most studies on cell-phone health effects have emerged from studies conducted overseas. Where have American researchers been during all of this? Probing that was the first order of the day at this afternoon's hearing before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.