The First Long-Term Cell Phone Health Study Launched By Europeans, Where Is The USA Study?
The Europeans have launched the first in terms of a long-term healthcare study on the affects of cell phone use. Where is the study in the United States though? It’s not there.
Five European nations launched what is the first study of any long-term magnitude on the potential side effects that might come from long term cell phone usage on one’s health. This is the culmination of a push of many years that have come from many different public interest groups as well as scientists to get both longer but also better studies on the potential health risks and effects of using cell phones.
The question really is though what is the United States doing, having 270 million cell phone users in the country, on this effort? Like said before, it’s not there, the United States federal government as well as the CTIA have been extremely quiet on this issue and simply points to the research that was done many years ago.
This research was done by the American Cancer Society and the World Health Organization. The zenith of their research was that there is no conclusive link between someone using a cell phone and getting cancer, or being in a higher risk category to get cancer. The one dragging thing in my mind with that though is that it doesn’t say anything about there not being a link and that there just hasn’t been enough research done to figure out if there actually is one or not.
This is where the advocates of putting warning labels on cell phones say there is a call to action with more research needed so those studies done can be updated, thus the need to capture cell phone usage over an extended amount of time and include their efforts to the effects on youth since they are the largest growing segment of cell phone use.
There are some efforts being made by some of the states to inform the users about the potential risks to children and to make an effort to better label cell phones with the specific rates of radiation absorption. There was a bill recently defeated in the Maine legislature that would have required cell phone manufacturers to put labels on phones for use by children. It was lobbied against heavily and the bill was defeated. Also defeated was a bill that was quite diluted of the original that didn’t call for warning labels but did make the call for more research to be done.
The following are some details on the European study:
The study aims to track a minimum ¼ million in the five countries for a time period of up to 30 years of time. In addition to that some other studies are centered on asking people that have already contracted cancer about their prior cell phone usage. These types of studies are obviously shorter as cell phones have only been used on a wide scale for around the past decade.
There is a long way to go with this and the question is that should we put some warning labels on cell phones and take some proactive measures as the details of this study will come in a little too late for many people should the results find a cancer link. The other question is will the United States ever become involved in this study or an individual one.
Those questions are yet to be answered.
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