Are cell phones safe? Researchers still uncertain | Signal Strength - CNET News - 0 views
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The question over whether cell phones pose a health risk has been debated for years, and researchers say the final answer could still be years away.
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The Interphone study, which began over a decade ago involving 13 countries and has been funded in part by the wireless industry, was supposed to settle the dispute. But the report's publication has been delayed as researchers disagree over how to interpret the data.
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If the data is that unclear, that means that effects are different for different people.
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indicates that children absorb twice as much radiation from cell phones as adults do, mostly because their faces and heads are much smaller.
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This ia big health risk because children are pobably the most common users of cell phones.
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Leading scientists gathering in Washington, D.C., this week say more research is needed to once-and-for-all determine whether cell phones pose major health risks. Read this blog post by Marguerite Reardon on Signal Strength.
