Deadlier thyroid cancers more common after radiationexposure

The Dark Side Of CFLs

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Deadlier thyroid cancers more common after radiation exposure

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Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority: Children's mobile phone use shouldbe limited

http://www.stuk.fi/stuk/tiedotteet/en_GB/news_527/ 07/01/2009Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has prepared a positionpaper, according to which children's mobile phone use should be restricted for example by favouring text messages instead of talking. Although research to date,has not demonstrated health effects from mobile phone's radiation, precaution isrecommended for children as all of the effects are not known. Position paper ispublished (in Finnish) in the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority's website.In relation to mobile phones children are given special consideration. They willhave more time to use a mobile phone for a longer period of time than adults whostarted using mobile phones more than 10 years ago. The long-term risks from theuse of mobile phones can not be assessed before the phones have been in usefor several decades. Additionally, children's brains are developing up to the age of 20 years."With children, we have reason to be especially careful, because there is notenough research on children's mobile phone use. Unfortunately, it will not be easyto obtain this information in the future, either, because of ethical considerations,the use of children as research subjects must always be heavily justified",according to STUK research director Sisko Salomaa.