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...comparing hundreds of cancer patients who had used cell phones with cancer-free control groups that had similar usage profiles, the studies concluded that cell phones posed no cancer risk. According to the New England Journal, "There was no evidence that the risks were higher among persons who used cellular phones for 60 or more minutes per day or regularly for five or more years...
...culpa: In a recent column, I wrote effusively about a portable gadget called the C-Guard that jams cellular-phone calls. Weirdly, the Israeli company that sells the thing didn't mention to me that blocking cell-phone calls--no matter how loud and obnoxious the caller--is illegal in the U.S. In fact, the Federal Communications Commission can impose an $11,000 fine on offenders. Buyer beware...
...CELL PHONES Do they or don't they cause brain cancer? After a handful of studies yo-yoed back and forth on the answer, the Cellular Telephone Industry Association tried to seize control of the uncertainty this summer and, they hoped, pre-empt any future lawsuits. (Noted class-action attorneys have already joined an $800 million suit against Motorola.) The association suggested that cell-phone manufacturers voluntarily disclose radiation levels emitted by each unit's antenna. Meanwhile, those who walk and talk at the same time can take solace; the latest studies find no increased risk of brain tumors...
...sultry Viennese actress was more than just a pretty face: in the U.S. in 1942, she co-patented technology inspired by the first of her six husbands, an arms dealer who sold to the Nazis, that prevented radio signals from being jammed. The patent's ideas foreshadowed secure cellular communications...
...phones were used per month or how many years the phones were used, there wasn't any relationship with the development of brain cancer," Joshua Muscat, chief author of the study, said Wednesday. The first report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, was funded by the cellular phone industry and conducted by the American Health Foundation. The second, independently financed study will be published later this week in the New England Journal of Medicine, where editors decided to lift an embargo early in order to support the findings reported in JAMA...