Leave a Comment

Cellphones are dangerous/not dangerous, eyezapoppin! edition
Engadget Mobile — Filed under: StudiesWhile you're totally in your rights to keep frettin' over brain tumors, it looks like your eyes are safe from the cellphone cancer -- at least until another study is released. According to a paper published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, a German study involving roughly 1,600 people has found no conclusive link between cellphone use and uveal melanoma. This contradicts an earlier, smaller study by the same researchers that suggested that there indeed might be a connection. Is that clear? It doesn't seem ...

Cellphones dangerous to your eyes? Not likely… maybe
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis — ... the Martin-Luther-University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany. “Uncertainty exists about the role, if any, of radio waves transmitted by radio sets or mobile phones in human carcinogenesis (cancer development).” So, for those of you keeping score at home, cellphones have been linked to all types of ailments about as frequently as they have been absolved of any wrong-doing. The jury is still out on whether radio radiation is harmful to humans. [Via: Reuters] Related News from IntoMobile: Mobile phones ...

Latest Cell Phone-Cancer News: Your Eyes Are Safe
Techdirt — ... studies coming out every so often. The real answer to the question of whether phones give people cancer, at this point, seems to be "nobody really knows yet", so any news one way or the other should be taken with a grain of salt (or two). In any case, the latest study to emerge says mobile phones don't cause eye cancer. Of course, this research contradicts the conclusion of an earlier, smaller study conducted by the same German researchers. So even though they're calling phones safe -- for your eyes, anyway -- the contradiction seems par for the course. ...