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Pittsburgh cancer center warns of cell phone risks
July 23rd, 2008 Health

poison14.jpgPITTSBURGH - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff Wednesday: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of cancer.

The warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, is contrary to numerous studies that don’t find a link between cancer and cell phone use, and a public lack of worry by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Herberman is basing his alarm on early unpublished data. He says it takes too long to get answers from science and he believes people should take action now — especially when it comes to children.

“Really at the heart of my concern is that we shouldn’t wait for a definitive study to come out, but err on the side of being safe rather than sorry later,” Herberman said.   MORE>>>


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115011 Comment from MH 7/23/2008, 11:17 pm

115029 Comment from Sliver 7/24/2008, 2:25 am

The truth really needs to come out about these tumor-causing vectors. I stopped using my cell phone over a month ago.

115044 Comment from micheal 7/24/2008, 7:03 am

This is B.S. cell phones have been being used for more than ten years, that is enough time to figure out if you have a brain tumor or cancer.
This is just a media scare. If this was even close to being true more than half of Americans would be sufering from cancer ailments as we speak.
If you want to know the real cancer scares try all the Fast food, the cemacles farmers use on produce and all the hair care products and other garbage woman use. How about the lead paint the chinese put on your kids toys!
Give me a break !
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115055 Comment from nowisthetime 7/24/2008, 10:57 am

Why the sudden concern? The fact that the FDA does not have the public’s welfare in mind and would rather receive funding from large corporations (because it doesnt really get that much from the government) !
ASPARTAME is a prime example… it was introduced by a chemical company that guaranteed a lucrative position in their company for an FDA administrator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspartame_controversy

FDA approval process
Some critics of Aspartame use have expressed concerns about its approval. Specifically, they note that the head of the FDA, Jere E. Goyan, was removed from his post on the first day of Ronald Reagan’s presidency (1981). Goyan had refused to approve the use of aspartame due to studies documenting increase of cancers in rats. Reagan appointed Arthur Hull Hayes, MD as FDA Commissioner in April 1981. In the same year Hayes approved aspartame as a food additive against an FDA Public Board of Inquiry recommendation[88]. It is notable however that Hayes had available results from a new Japanese study which the PBOI chairman later claimed would have reversed his recommendation. In November 1983 Hayes quit and joined Searle’s public-relations firm Burson-Marsteller as senior medical advisor

115056 Comment from Belatucadros 7/24/2008, 11:28 am

Sounds like a bunch of BS if you ask me, according to these so called experts everything causes cancer. I’d like to know what exactly makes them experts, and experts of what.

115058 Comment from dave 7/24/2008, 11:33 am

I certainly wouldn’t panic over one study. Where is the logic in there being dozens of studies proving no connection and one showing the opposite, yet people go for the one negative. Why not recognize the probability it is biased or improperly performed, at least until one more study confirms it.

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