Subject:  Hyland's Cell Phone Study, Reuters News Service (Burmaster).
Date:     Sat, 25 Nov 2000 084737 -0600
From:     Roy Beavers 
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Subject: SX3S1: Hyland's Cell Phone Study as it Appeared in Reuters 
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Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 09:37:12 EST
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Scientist raises new mobile phone fears

  LONDON, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Children who use mobile phones risk suffering 
memory loss, sleeping disorders and headaches, according to research 
published in the medical journal The Lancet. 

Physicist Dr Gerard Hyland raised new fears over radiation caused by mobile 
phones and said under 18-year-olds, who represent a quarter of Britain's 25 
million mobile users, were more vulnerable because their immune systems 
were less robust. 

"Radiation is known to affect the brain rhythms and children are 
particularly vulnerable," Hyland said. 

"The effect of microwaves from a mobile phone is a bit like interference 
on a radio. It has an impact on the stability of cells in the body. The 
main effects are neurological, causing headaches, memory loss and also 
sleeping disorders," he added. 

He said there was too much uncertainty about the potential dangers of 
mobile phones. 

"If mobile phones were a type of food, they simply would not be licensed 
because there is so much uncertainty surrounding their safety," he said. 

Hyland's findings came as the government launched a new task force to 
study the possible risks of mobile phones. 

A government-commissioned inquiry into potential risks said in May that 
children should be discouraged from using mobile phones. 

Fresh evidence about the impact of mobile phones on children's brains 
follows research in early November showing that hands-free mobile phone 
kits can significantly boost the brain's exposure to radiation. 

Scientists agree that electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones warms 
brain tissue although it remains unproven that they pose a human health 
risk. 

But Hyland said the real risk was from low intensity radiation known as 
non-thermal radiation, not brain heating. 

08:49 11-25-00

Copyright 2000 Reuters Limited.


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