Cell Phone Radiation Protection News
05/22/01 - CNN.com
With more than 110 million cell phones in use in the United States, two congressmen Tuesday urged more study on the health effects of radiation from wireless phones after a government report showed research on the issue is inconclusive - read more...
05/16/01 - SMH
An Australian scientist claims to have collected the world's first real evidence that mobile phone radiation can affect the head's nerves, causing headaches, visual disturbance and loss of sensation in the scalp - read more...
11/28/00 - Reuters
All mobile phones in Britain will come with health warnings under new government guidelines to be rushed out before Christmas, newspapers reported yesterday - read more...
11/23/00 - ABC News.com
The Mickey Mouse cell phones are soon to be a thing of the past. In Response to a PrimeTime report, in which scientists criticize some in the cell phone industry for marketing phones to children at a time when there are gaps in knowledge about cell phone safety, the Walt Disney Co. disclosed yesterday that it will stop licensing its cartoon characters for cell phones - read more...
08/03/00 - CNN
A Maryland doctor filed an $800 million lawsuit against a cell phone maker and a telecommunications company, claiming years of using the wireless devices caused his brain cancer - read more...
07/17/00 - CNN, New York
The U.S. cellular telephone industry will start publishing information on the amount of radiation that enters users' heads when they use various wireless phones - read more...
06/15/00 - The Press on MWN
While public fears about brain cancer remain unresolved, there is now a growing body of evidence that wireless phone radiation can affect the nervous system. Studies from Finland and Germany are the latest to find changes in brain activity - read more...
06/15/00 - BBC
A high-level panel appointed by the U.K. government has recommended that children be discouraged from using mobile phones and that the industry not market phones to children - read more...
06/09/00 - ABC, Web News
Hoping to settle whether there really are any health risks from cellular phones, the Food and Drug Administration negotiated an unusual partnership with the phone industry Thursday to perform about $1 million worth of scientific studies - read more...
04/21/00 - Microwave News
Wireless phone manufacturers want to relax the radiation exposure standard for the outer ear, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is expected to give its approval - read more...
