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Article: Pitt's Cancer Institute warns 3,000 faculty, staff about possible cell phone health risks
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- July 23, 2008
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The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.
The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don't find a link between increased tumors and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Herberman is basing his alarm on early, unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now _ especially when it comes to children.
"Really at the heart of my ...
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