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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:46:08 -0400
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Cell phone news
From: takensave@aol.com
To: takensave@aol.com
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 4:03 pm
NEW YORK TIMES: 06/02/08
Experts revive debate over cell phones and cancer
Last week, three prominent neurosurgeons told the CNN interviewer
Larry
King that they did not hold cellphones next to their ears. “I
think the
safe practice,” said Dr. Keith Black, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai
Medical
Center in Los Angeles, “is to use an earpiece so you keep the
microwave
antenna away from your brain.”
Dr. Vini Khurana, an associate professor of neurosurgery at the
Australian National University who is an outspoken critic of
cellphones, said: “I use it on the speaker-phone mode. I do not
hold it
to my ear.” And CNN’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay
Gupta, a
neurosurgeon at Emory University Hospital, said that like Dr.
Black he
used an earpiece.
Along with Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s recent diagnosis of a
glioma, a
type of tumor that critics have long associated with cellphone
use, the
doctors’ remarks have helped reignite a long-simmering debate
about
cellphones and cancer.
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