The U.K.’s Mobile Telecom & Health Research program soon will ann...
The U.K.’s Mobile Telecom & Health Research program soon will announce a $3.8 million grant to study radiation from cellphone and links to cancer and other diseases, The Times of London reported. The effort will track about 200,000 people…
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for at least 5 years. “You find absolutely nothing for 10 years and then after that it starts to grow dramatically,” The Times quoted cellphone radiation expert Lawrie Challis, the program’s chmn., as saying: “It goes up 10 times. You look at what happened after the atomic bombs at Nagasaki, Hiroshima. You find again a long delay, nothing for 10 years. The same for asbestos.” Adults in the U.K. use 50 million mobile phones, and the number used by children 5-9 is 6 times as high as in 2000.