Thursday, February 24, 2011

Love your brain, love your cell-phone

Fears concerning the possible dangers of prolonged cell-phone use won't go away, despite numerous studies showing no conclusive link between cell phones and brain tumors or cancer.
Now new data from the National Institutes of Health suggesting that cell phone radiation boosts brain activity is poised to stir the debate even further.
Researchers used PET scans to measure brain activity in 47 participants when they had cell phones held to their ears in both off and on but muted positions and found that exposure to an in-use cell phone for more than 50 minutes increased brain activity by about 7 percent in the regions closes to the antenna. This suggests that while no link has been proven between adverse health effects and cell phone radiation, the human brain is sensitive in some way to the electromagnetic waves coming off of a cell phone.
~~ oooo..Lollipop LG phone..I wish I have the blue one ~~
But sensitivity does not equal harm or an increased risk of cancer, and it may even turn out that the ability of this radiation to boost brain activity could have therapeutic effects. Well, I guess I can use the cell-phone to treat my stroke patients. ^_^
The largest-ever study of cell phones, known as the Interphone study, released its long-term results in May of 2010 and found no increased risk for benign or cancerous brain tumors, except at its highest level of use, a level deemed "implausible" as a comparison to real-life by the investigators. Even this link was only seen with benign tumors, not with cancer.
So why does the fear of cell phones' frying our brains still persist? Well, I still have that kind of fear..hahaha!!!

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