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Mobile Phone Use And Acoustic Neoroma

Hardware · Communications · 2004-10-13 04:02 · posted by timothy · from the details-emerge dept. · 24 comments

meeiw writes "A study from the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) at Karolinska Institute, Sweden found that 10 or more years of mobile phone use increase the risk of acoustic neuroma (slow-growing tumor) and that the risk increase was confined to the side of the head where the phone was usually held."
Medicine/Physiology Nobel Laureates Announced

Science · Science · 2004-10-04 13:13 · posted by timothy · from the hey-that-smells-good dept. · 76 comments

Seehund writes "Today, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet announced the laureates of this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck are jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for their discoveries in the field of odorant receptors and the organization of the olfactory system."