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Saturday, 22 October 2011
Mobile phone's brain cancer link rejected
mobile phones and increased risk of brain tumours, the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reported yesterday.Danish researchers found no evidence of enhanced risk among more than 350,000 mobile-phone subscribers whose health was monitored over 18 years.
Earlier research on the possible link between cell phone use and cancerous tumours has been inconclusive, partly due to lack of long-term data.
In June, the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the radio-frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans."
The new study follows up an earlier investigation that compared the cancer risk faced by all mobile phone subscribers in Denmark--some 420,000 people--with the rest of the adult population.
Patrizia Frei, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Danish Cancer Society, and colleagues examined health records from 1990 to 2007 for 358,403 cell phone subscribers.
Overall, 10,729 tumours of the central nervous system were diagnosed.
But among people with the longest mobile phone use--13 years or more--cancer rates were nearly the same as for non-subscribers.
"The extended follow-up allowed us to investigate effects in people who had used mobile phones for 10 years or more, and this long-term use was not associated with higher risks of cancer," the study concluded.
The findings, however, could not rule out the possibility of a "small to moderate increase in risk" for very heavy users, or people who have used cell phones for longer than 15 years.
"Further studies with large study populations where the potential for misclassification of exposure and selection bias is minimised are warranted," the researchers said.
There are about five billion mobile phones registered in the world, a figure that continues to rise sharply along with the average amount of time spent using them.
The IARC does not issue formal recommendations, but its experts pointed in June to a number of ways consumers can reduce possible risk.
Texting and using hands-free sets for voice calls lower exposure to potentially harmful radiation, compared to device-to-ear voice calls, by at least tenfold, they said.
Earlier research on the possible link between cell phone use and cancerous tumours has been inconclusive, partly due to lack of long-term data.
In June, the World Health Organisation's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified the radio-frequency electromagnetic fields emitted by mobile phones as "possibly carcinogenic to humans."
The new study follows up an earlier investigation that compared the cancer risk faced by all mobile phone subscribers in Denmark--some 420,000 people--with the rest of the adult population.
Patrizia Frei, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Danish Cancer Society, and colleagues examined health records from 1990 to 2007 for 358,403 cell phone subscribers.
Overall, 10,729 tumours of the central nervous system were diagnosed.
But among people with the longest mobile phone use--13 years or more--cancer rates were nearly the same as for non-subscribers.
"The extended follow-up allowed us to investigate effects in people who had used mobile phones for 10 years or more, and this long-term use was not associated with higher risks of cancer," the study concluded.
The findings, however, could not rule out the possibility of a "small to moderate increase in risk" for very heavy users, or people who have used cell phones for longer than 15 years.
"Further studies with large study populations where the potential for misclassification of exposure and selection bias is minimised are warranted," the researchers said.
There are about five billion mobile phones registered in the world, a figure that continues to rise sharply along with the average amount of time spent using them.
The IARC does not issue formal recommendations, but its experts pointed in June to a number of ways consumers can reduce possible risk.
Texting and using hands-free sets for voice calls lower exposure to potentially harmful radiation, compared to device-to-ear voice calls, by at least tenfold, they said.
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Thursday, 20 October 2011
Albino Cyclops Shark Discovered in Gulf of California
A mysterious cyclops shark -- or a shark with a single eye in the middle of its head -- was discovered by a commercial fisherman off the Gulf of California. The shark was actually discovered during the summer, but shark researchers have been studying, examining and preserving the cyclops shark since its discovery.
The shark itself is colorless -- a sickly white hue with a large, solitary eye in the middle of its forehead, just above its mouth. All other features, including fins, tale and mouth, appear to be normal. The only abnormality is the lack of one eye.
According to a report by CBS News, where you can see pictures, the shark was cut from the belly of a pregnant dusky shark with nine other, regularly developed shark fetuses. Though the pictures of the strange creature appear doctored or altered to create the cyclops appearance, researchers have verified that this bizarre looking shark is actually the real deal.
Felope Galvan Magana, a shark expert with Mexico's Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias del Mar, told reporters that the albino cyclops shark is, "extremely rare."
The official name for the anomaly is "Cyclopia."
"As far as I know, less than 50 examples of an abnormality like this have been recorded," added Magana.
The cyclops shark did not survive after it was cut out from the mother shark's womb. It's also unlikely that the malformed sea creature would have lived outside of the womb if it were carried full term.
The commercial fisherman who originally discovered the cyclops shark has kept and preserved the remains of his findings, say various media reports. He did allow scientists to examine and x-ray the fish in order to authenticate it. A report on their findings will be published by Pisces Fleet and Glavan Magana in the coming weeks.
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