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Cell Phone Health Hazard


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When is the last time you cleaned your cell phone?

Sharing the phone provides the greatest opportunity to share germs from the unclean gadget.

Cell phones go everywhere we go, including the bathroom, and they are rarely cleaned.

To limit the spread of diseases from phones or other objects, try not to share them, or wipe them down with an antibacterial wipe if you do. While sprays might damage the equipment, a gentle wipe should do the trick.

The Top Ten Health Stories of 2010

2010 was wrought with health controversy from flip flopping on cell phone safety to mammograms and barefoot running shoes.

Being an informed consumer is the best way to navigate the overwhelming amount of information.

Having good relationship with your physician will enable you to design the best health care strategies for your needs.

Read the top 10 health stories that made the news.

Cancer Risk with Cell Phone Use is Still Undetermined

Almost two decades of research has not decisively concluded whether or not there is a direct link between cell phone use and certain brain cancers.

Since so many of us use cell phones it is diffucult to conclude a causal relationship between the two, especially given the rarity of some of the cancers.

…Siddhartha Mukherjee, an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University, found that despite years of research by scientists around the world, there has never been a conclusive study linking cellphone use and brain cancer — but no study conclusively ruled it out, either.

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