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
i think there s a recognition that the governments of france and israel have issued warnings. those are not countries to take these issues lightly. i am particularly concerned as a grandmother about the developing brain, about children using cell phones, about toddlers and infants whose parents are downloading white noise apps and lull la byes. we are so naive about technology. cell phones have revolutionized our lives. you can respond to medical emergencies, very valuable. people have a right to know that cell phones are basically small two-way microwave radios. a lot of people listening will say, look, i thought this was studied and if there was something bad here, we would already know about it. studies of the hiroshima bombing, we know that brain cancer did not show up at all as increased until 40 years after that bombing occurred.
personnel against exposures and i became curious. as you talk about and a lot of people do, everybody has one nowadays. young kids are using them. i prefer to think that we were naive and the reason we re talking about is that we re no long eer naive about this issue and governments of france and israel have issued warnings and those are not countries known to take these issues lightly. i m particularly concern as a grandmother about the developing brain, about children who are using cell phones, about toddlers and infants whose parents are downloading white noise apps and lullabies and putting the phones by their heads. cell phones haveolutionized our lives. people have a right to know that cell phones are basically small two-way microwave radios and not kept directly on the brain or body and that s what the fine print warnings now tell you. a lot of people listening to
paraplegics. this guy could stand up again. this is when an accident paralyzed five years ago and doctors said he would never walk again. a medical team implanted an electric stimulator and within months he was taking assisted steps on a treadmill. i ll be back at the top of the hour with more live news here. i m dr. sanjay gupta. welcome to the show. today i m taking a closer look at something that s become so closely woven into our lives it s hard to imagine what we would do without it. i m talking about our cell phones. most of us take it for granted that they re safe and that may be the case. but i ve also spent the last several months investigating and talking with people who say don t be so sure. some of you may already be rolling your eyes. i understand that. i want you to stick with me this half hour. we ve been digging a little deeper to try to get a more definitive answer. i will tell you this, it wasn t easy. what surprised me is voices urging caution are not onl
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