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Kids and Cellphones ? and Cancer

By J. Michael McBride

“Children and teenagers are five times more likely to get brain cancer if they use mobile phones, startling new research indicates.

The study, experts say, raises fears that today's young people may suffer an "epidemic" of the disease in later life. At least nine out of 10 British 16-year-olds have their own handset, as do more than 40 per cent of primary schoolchildren."

Here is a link to this article from The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mobile-phone-use-raises-childrens-risk-of-brain-cancer-fivefold-937005.html

Michael

Full post as published by Texas Lawyer Blog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).