Cell Phones Linked to Brain Cancer
Cell Phone Use Causes Concern for Damaging the Brain.
First they thought coffee was bad for you, now they see it has benefits. Same for moderate Red wine intake. Now cell phones are under scrutiny.
The dramatic increase in use of cellular telephones has generated concern
about possible negative effects of radiofrequency signals delivered to the brain. However, whether acute cell phone exposure affects the human brain is unclear. Cell phones have not been persuasively linked to brain cancer, but that doesn't mean that their associated radiation has no effect on our brains and bodies.
A new study shows that these pervasive devices can alter the brain's glucose metabolism, a marker of neuronal activity.The findings are published in the February 23 issue of JAMA, Journal of the American Medical Association.
In healthy participants and compared with no exposure, 50-minute cell phone exposure was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna. This finding is of unknown clinical significance.
The bottom line is we know it affects the brain but we do not know to what end. I will follow this issue.
