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Article: Pittsburgh-Area Doctor Starts Web Site for People to Discuss Cellular Woes.
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- April 17, 2002
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By Patricia Sabatini, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 17--Memory loss, eye cancer, brain tumors -- it's pretty scary stuff.
While the debate continues over whether using cell phones could cause such disorders, an outspoken researcher and critic of the mobile phone industry has launched an online registry to collect health complaints from consumers who believe their phones made them sick.
Dr. George Carlo, an epidemiologist who caused a stir in 1999 when he published findings from a $28 million, industry-funded study that linked cell phone emissions with increased risk of tumors, said the registry will look ...