vital news to anyone who uses a cell phone. today, world health organization panel took a fresh look at the medical research and concluded that cell phones are possibly carcinogenic. days after dr. sanjay gupta investigated serious questions about the current research on cell phones and cancer. here s a portion of sanjay s report, which aired as recently as last night, foreshadowing today s stunning 180 from the w.h.o. on cell phone safety. if you ve ever put a cell phone to your ear, you should listen to what neurosurgeon dr. keith black has to say. there s no way to say cell phone use is safe. i think that the public has a right to know that there could be a potential risk. the public generally assumes if one is selling something on the market that we have had assurances that that device is safe. to be clear, dr. black s message is at odds with headlines from the largest international study on cell phones in cancer. their conclusion, little or no evidence cell phones
embattled leader, moammar gadhafi. nasa begins a new countdown clock. next month, the 30-year-old shuttle program will end with a mission of another shuttle, the at lan hi atlantis. pressure is mounting on congressman anthony wiener to answer two questions posted on his twitter account. how hot is it getting? how about you do the questions, i do the answers and this jackass interrupts me. how about that as the new rule of the game? let s catch you up on this stoefrmt on friday night, a picture of a man in his jupd wear briefly showed up on wiener s twitter account. it was intended for a 21-year-old woman s site. that many would, a college student told the new york daily news that, yes, he followed her on twitter but the lewd post did not come from the congressman but from somebody who has harassed her before. on monday, he blamed the photo on a hacker. on tuesday, cnn s dana bash asked him, if that was true, why not go to the police? you are here, which we appreciat
w.h.o. on cell phone safely. if you ve ever put a cell phone to your ear there s no way to say cell phone use is safe. i think that the public has a right to know that there could be a potential risk. the public generally assumes if one is selling something on the market that we have had assurances that that device is safe. to be clear, dr. black s message is at odds with headlines from the largest international study on cell phones in cancer. their conclusion, little or no evidence cell phones are associated with brain tumors. but if you look just one layer deeper into the appendix of that same study, you ll see something unsettling. turns out participants in the study who use a cell phone for ten years or more had double the rate of a brain tumor. basically what triggered today s warning, a closer look at the studies. last year, interphone, a 13-country study, found no overall higher risk of brain tumors but found that people who used a cell phone for ten years or
it may not be the one exposure. we are born with repair processes. we get damage to our dna every day by breathing, sunlight and whatnot. if we eat well and exercise and don t have too much exposure, that damage gets repaired. for cell phone radiation, young people today are growing up in a sea of radio frequency radiation that didn t exist even five years ago. we ve been surrounded by radiation for a long time. you re saying this new radiation has changed the amount that we re exposed to? by billions and billions and billions of times. the amount of radio frequency radiation today is billions and billions of times greater than occurred at the big bang with which we evolved human life. i don t think all make waive radiation is necessarily problematic, and i recognize that microwaves play a very important role in many aspects of modern life. but i think direct microwave radiation of the brain and that s why all of the fine print
what surprised me is voices urging caution are not only getting louder, but they re getting more prominent. all right. i m on my way. if you ve ever put a cell phone to your ear, you should listen to what neurosurgeon dr. keith black has to say. there s no way to say that cell phone use is safe. i think the public has a right to know there could be a potential risk. the public generally assumes that if one is selling something on the market, that we have had assurances that that device is safe. to be clear, dr. black s message is at odds with headlines from the largest international study on cell phones and cancer. their conclusion, little or no evidence cell phones are associated with brain tumors. if you look just one layer deeper into the appendix of that same study, you ll see something unsettling. turns out participants in the study who use a cell phone for ten years or more had double the rate of a type of tumor. keep in mind cell phone use in the united states