Using wi-fi on a laptop 'damages sperm', study suggests
Daily Telegraph - 30th Nov 2011 (also highlighted on BBC News)
Surfing the internet on a laptop that is connected with wireless technology can damage sperm counts, a study suggests.
Ho Ho NO! Why iPads and iPhones are not Kids Toys
Newswise - 22-11-2011
"There's no denying these gadgets are fun; my kids love them too," says Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff, Executive Director and CEO of Healthy Child Healthy World. "But these technologies are developing faster than our ability to understand potential health impacts.
Mobile Phones Could be 'Health Time Bomb'
Daily Mail - 9th November 2011
Mobile phones could be a 'health time bomb', say experts who are urging ministers to warn the public.
More than 200 academic studies link use of the devices with serious health conditions such as brain tumours, according to a group of leading scientists.
In a report published yesterday, they say the Government is underplaying the potentially 'enormous' health risks – especially for children, whose smaller, thinner skulls are more susceptible to radiation.
Mobile phone use potentially increases brain cancer, warn experts
Daily Mirror - 1st June 2011
Mobile phones 'possibly carcinogenic' say World Health Organisation experts
Telegraph - 1st June 2011
Mobile phones may increase the risk of developing brain cancer, an influential health organisation has said admitted for the first time.
‘Cancer’ mobiles - World Health chiefs in u-turn on phone fears
The Sun - 1st June 2011
Mobile phones may cause cancer, warn world health chiefs: After years of contradictory claims, an authoritative verdict
Daily Mail - 1st June 2011
Mobile phone owners were urged to limit their use last night after the World Health Organisation admitted they may cause cancer.
The UN’s health agency advised ‘pragmatic’ measures to reduce exposure, such as using hands-free kits and texting instead of calling.
WiFi and mobile phones pose health risk to children - report
Metro - 16th May 2011
Ban mobile phones and wi-fi from schools 'as they are potentially harmful'
Daily Mail - 16th May 2011
Pupils at risk from radiation, Euro experts warn
Mobile phones and wireless internet should be banned from schools because they pose too great a risk to children’s health, a controversial study has warned.
The stark claims go against the overwhelming body of existing research, which suggests such devices are perfectly safe.
But an influential Council of Europe committee said that electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobiles, computers with wi-fi internet connections and even baby monitors could cause cancer and impair brain development.
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