Cell phone
usage increases the risk of brain tumour?
Audrey Micah,
Ghanadot
Accra, April 11, Ghanadot
- There has been an on-going
debate about the safety of cell phones for many years.
Not surprisingly, the cell phone
industry and various health authorities have
countered to
assure users that the technology is safe.
However, recent research now
suggests otherwise.
According to Dr. Vini Khurana, an award-winning cancer
expert, mobile phones could kill far more people than
smoking.
He said people should avoid using them if possible and urged
government and the mobile phone industry to take "immediate
steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.
Cell phones are more like radios than traditional telephones
in your home. They emit low levels of radiofrequency energy
(RF) in the microwave range while being used. They also emit
very low levels of RF when in the stand-by mode.
Using a cell phone can place the radiation antenna close to
the user’s brain and this can lead to the absorption of
comparatively large amounts of electromagnetic energy.
In an interview on Peace FM, the customer Relations
Executive of "I 2" Limited, main distributors of Nokia
phones in Ghana, Ms. Faith, admitted that, mobile phones can
save lives in emergencies, but added that "there is a
significant and increasing body of evidence which links
mobile phone usage to certain
brain tumours. This, she said, will "definitively be proven"
in the next decade.
Ms. Faith added that it is advisable for people to stop
using several phones or a phone which uses two chips at the
same time - because scientists have proven that radiation
from two phones made an egg cook during an experiment,
giving reason why Nokia has not produced phones that uses
two chips.
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‘sakawa’ boys have been arrested by the Ghana Police at
Mambo, a suburb of Greater Accra, following a tip off by
some residents.
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J.H. Mensah, former senior minister under the Kufuor
Administration, and Mr Reginald Bannerman, a Ghanaian
lawyer, have given notice of their intention to retire from
the Board of AngloGold Ashanti.
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Ghanadot - Mr Kofi Adams, the special aide to Former
President Rawlings has declared his preparedness to sue
the Daily Guide newspaper for libel.
