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Article: Mobile Phone Exposure Causes Brain Damage in Rats; Study Published Today in Environmental Health Perspectives Finds Significant Impact and Raises Questions about Use.
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- January 29, 2003
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Business Editors/Environment Writers
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2003
A study published today in the online edition of the peer-reviewed journal Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) found for the first time that electromagnetic fields (EMFs) emitted by certain mobile phones damaged neurons in the brains of rats.
The researchers studied 12- to 26-week-old rats because their developmental age is comparable to that of human teenagers, who are some of the heaviest users of mobile phones.
"The situation of the growing brain might deserve special concern," the study authors wrote, "since biological and ...