Cell phone radiation during pregnancy: Effect on newborns needs authentic research
Written by administrator on March 19th, 2012
Cell phone radiation during pregnancy: Effect on newborns needs authentic research
News from Washington Times:
HELSINKI, March 18, 2012—Potential health effects of cell phone radiation in children were examined by very few studies published in the last 2-3 years. Assurances from the committees advising governments on cell phone radiation safety limits, that the current safety limits protect all users, are not supported by the currently available scientific evidence.
Effects on children are only now beginning to be examined.
One of the crucial questions to which we have no scientific answer is whether exposure of fetus to cell phone radiation will have any impact on physical and mental health of a child and, in due time, adult.
In 2011, researchers from California, using the data from the “infamous” Danish Cohort, analyzed whether exposure of fetus, by a mother using a cell phone, will affect development of child during the first 18 months of life.
An interesting twist in how the study was executed was that:
“Outcomes for developmental milestones were obtained from telephone interviews completed by mothers at age 6 and 18 months postpartum.”
What it means in plain language is that the scientists from California called mothers in Denmark and asked them to judge the development of their own children. Is this the reliable and…………… continues on Washington Times
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