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Mobile Phone Use And Acoustic Neoroma

Posted by timothy on from the details-emerge dept.

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."

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  1. Re:One more reason to use a Bluetooth headset by Eric+Smith · · Score: 2, Informative

    No, the "line-of-sight" from the phone to my testicles is through more than six inches of flesh and bone. Not much 1.9 GHz RF is going to get through that.