Pitt's Cancer Institute to warn about cell phone health risks

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08204/898713-100.stm ^

[chessplayer]

The director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers plans to issue an advisory to about 3,000 faculty and staff tomorrow about the possible health risks associated with cellular phone use. The document suggests certain measures to limit exposure to the electromagnetic fields emitted by the devices, such as limiting the length of conversations or keeping the phones away from the head by using headsets or speaker phone options. It also recommends that children not use cell phones except in emergencies.

[Nathan Zachary]

I keep telling my son that he's going to get brain cancer from yaking so much on his cell phone.
He's so addicted to gab that his ear swells up from cramming that thing in it all day.

Now my wife is also one of those that gabs on the phone all day, but it's the regular land line phone, and I've never seen her ear swell up from it. I'm not so sure that these cell phone warning aren't without merit. They do emit strong signals (try leave yours close to your pc when it rings)that could possibly have some kind of effect.

[Sacajaweau]

What about the new TV'S. I remember the old ones...Stay 6 feet away from the screen...

And the great new lightbulbs...Mercury...Cool...

But don't worry...the cure is coming via Universal Health Care...

Like..."We're gonna kinda hurt you...then we're gonna kinda cure you"...But you'll have to turn all your bank accounts over to us.

[autumnraine]

The battery in cell phone heats up quite a bit when pressed up against the ear. That’s probably what is swelling his ear or making it red.

Either way, I don’t need to talk to someone so much that I endure pain for it.

[Squantos]

It’s gonna really piss me off late in life when I am dying from nothing.

[Uncle George]

Plain old radiation.

[Nathan Zachary]

"And the great new lightbulbs...Mercury...Cool...

There's nothing "new" about florescent bulbs. They've been around since the 50's, or longer. Nothing even remotely "dangerous" about them, unless you cut yourself on broken glass when a tube falls out of the ceiling.

The dreaded "mercury vapor" is produced from some of the tiny tiny amount of mercury contained in the starter mechanizm.

You probably eat more mercury in that tin of salmon or tuna than you would ever be exposed to from mercury vapors escaping from a 100 broken bulbs.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Either way, I don’t need to talk to someone so much that I endure pain for it."

Apparently he does. You should see the painful phone bill he gets. It make ME cringe. Oh well, it's his money, and you know what they say about fools and their money... :o)

[Publius6961]

Pitt's Cancer Institute to warn about cell phone health risks

Shhhhhhhhhhhh, Dang it!

I happen to love Natural Selection.