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Could mobile devices raise skin cancer risk
Yahoo! news (Reuters) ^ | September 3, 2015 | By Kathryn Doyle

Posted on 09/03/2015 10:52:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker

(Reuters Health) - Devices like tablets, smartphones and laptops can reflect ultraviolet light from the sun and may indirectly increase users' exposure to the cancer-causing wavelengths, according to a new study.

“These devices are generally used for communication or entertainment, so it can be easy to overlook their reflective properties unless you happen to catch the glare off a screen,” said Mary E. Logue of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, who coauthored the research with Dr. Barrett J. Zlotoff.

They wondered whether, like those old-fashioned tanning reflectors, personal electronics could also pose skin health risks, Logue told Reuters Health by email.

In a small observational study conducted on a grassy field in Albuquerque, the researchers set up a mannequin head wearing a UVA/B light meter and faced it toward a standard musician’s sheet stand. Then they placed various mobile devices on the stand.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine; Humor
KEYWORDS: applepinglist; laptops; skincancer; smartphones; tablets; ultravioletlight

1 posted on 09/03/2015 10:52:01 PM PDT by Swordmaker
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To: Swordmaker

From the sun?
I don’t stand in the sun using devices.


2 posted on 09/03/2015 10:57:19 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: ThunderSleeps; dayglored; ShadowAce; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; ...
GASP! ROTFLMAO! WHEEZE! The ultimate mobile device FUD research article of all time. . . Do the screens of mobile phones, tablets, and laptops, reflect dangerous solar ultraviolet rays from the sun hitting their screens from being used outdoors enough to cause skin cancer in their users!!! — PING!

Ping to ThunderSleepsm DayGloRed, and Shadow Ace for their ping lists. . .


Mobile Device Skin Cancer Scare FUD!
Ping!

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3 posted on 09/03/2015 11:01:30 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Life is terminal.


4 posted on 09/03/2015 11:01:40 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo ("Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy; when I fall I shall arise"-Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress)
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To: A CA Guy
From the sun?
I don’t stand in the sun using devices.

Who does?

5 posted on 09/03/2015 11:02:24 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

There is an app for that!


6 posted on 09/03/2015 11:04:29 PM PDT by DaveyB (Live free or die!)
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To: A CA Guy

Most screen devices are almost impossible to read in the sun, which means no one uses these devices under direct sunlight.

So the premise of this study — namely, we may get skin cancer from using mobile devices in the sun — never really happens in real life.


7 posted on 09/03/2015 11:14:29 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: Swordmaker

And the all-aluminum Apple products cause ALZHEIMER’S!!! /s


8 posted on 09/03/2015 11:21:43 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Swordmaker
"Everybody's gotta die from something"

"

9 posted on 09/03/2015 11:31:47 PM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Vision Thing
"Most screen devices are almost impossible to read in the sun, which means no one uses these devices under direct sunlight. So the premise of this study — namely, we may get skin cancer from using mobile devices in the sun — never really happens in real life."

You don't know that. But give me $2,000,000 and I'll do a study on whether you are correct or not.

10 posted on 09/03/2015 11:50:19 PM PDT by fini
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To: fini

You’re aiming too low. I’m sure the guvmint would be willing to grant you at least 10 million for the study. They gotta put all that money they’ve been printing to use wherever they can. :)


11 posted on 09/03/2015 11:55:27 PM PDT by Vision Thing ("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
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To: Swordmaker

My cellphone helps prevent Gorebull Warming my reflecting the sun’s radiant heat energy back into space.


12 posted on 09/04/2015 12:36:19 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: SunkenCiv
And the all-aluminum Apple products cause ALZHEIMER’S!!! /s

That probably will only apply to prison inmates. . . considering where they hide them. . . '

13 posted on 09/04/2015 5:28:37 AM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Set to vibrate.


14 posted on 09/04/2015 5:48:33 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: 109ACS; aimhigh; bajabaja; Bikkuri; Bobalu; Bookwoman; Bullish; DarthDilbert; dayglored; ...
Are there other dangers from smartphone-like devices? — ANDROID PING!

Android Ping!
If you want on or off the Android Ping List, Freepmail me.

15 posted on 09/04/2015 6:58:43 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Rodamala
My cellphone helps prevent Gorebull Warming my reflecting the sun’s radiant heat energy back into space.

More cellphones with larger screens means cooler weather. THAT explains the last 18 years with no Global Warming!

16 posted on 09/04/2015 4:52:52 PM PDT by Swordmaker ( This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker
More cellphones with larger screens means cooler weather. THAT explains the last 18 years with no Global Warming!

Sounds like Settled ScienceTM to me!

17 posted on 09/04/2015 5:40:39 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Swordmaker; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna
Mary E. Logue of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, who coauthored the research with Dr. Barrett J. Zlotoff.


18 posted on 09/04/2015 5:49:08 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Swordmaker; AllAmericanGirl44; Armen Hareyan; B4Ranch; Balata; Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi; ...
CANCER WARRIORS PING

This is a ping list for cancer survivors and caregivers to share information. If you would like your name added to or removed from this ping list, please tell us in the comments section at this link (click here). (For the most updated list of names, click on the same link and go to the last comment.)

19 posted on 09/18/2015 2:43:40 AM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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