Friday, December 4, 2009

Another scare story debunked

A large new study is the latest to find no link between rising cellphone use and rates of brain cancer.

Researchers in four Scandinavian countries found no increase in brain tumor diagnoses from 1998 to 2003, when cellphone use in those countries grew sharply, according to a study published online Thursday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/phones/2009-12-03-cell-phones_N.htm

Remember this the next time you hear the latest medical or scientific scare story.

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