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Article: How safe is your mobile phone?; MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE USING MOBILE PHONES, BUT RESEARCHERS ARE STILL UNCLEAR AS TO WHETHER THEY POSE ANY HEALTH RISK.(Features)
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- Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1999
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SOME 15 million people in Britain have a mobile phone. And the number of subscribers is growing at an astonishing pace.
At the current rate, one in two of us will own a mobile by 2001.
But can we be sure that these icons of the new millennium are safe to use?
Health scares associated with mobile phones won't go away. There are claims that persistent users are likely to suffer anxiety and stress attacks, memory loss and are more prone to develop cancerous tumours.
On the other hand, rival scientific research suggests that mobiles actually ...