Mobile Phone Use Linked to Brain Tumors

Nic Fleming, reporting for The Telegraph:

A large-scale study found that those who had regularly used mobiles for longer than 10 years were almost 40 per cent more likely to develop nervous system tumours called gliomas near to where they hold their phones.

Better order the Bluetooth headset with that iPhone. Update: Oops, wait, Bluetooth = radio, so that’s no good, either. At least the iPhone headphones work as a wired headset; that’s apparently the way to go.

★ Friday, 26 January 2007