{"id":3902,"date":"2008-07-24T01:44:15","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T05:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2008\/07\/24\/3902"},"modified":"2008-07-24T01:44:15","modified_gmt":"2008-07-24T05:44:15","slug":"upmc-cancer-institute-head-warns-of-tumor-dangers-from-cell-phone-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2008\/07\/upmc-cancer-institute-head-warns-of-tumor-dangers-from-cell-phone-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"UPMC Cancer Institute Head Warns Of Tumor Dangers From Cell Phone Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/16968205\/detail.html\" rel=\"external\">PITTSBURGH<\/a> &#8212; The director of the UPMC Cancer Institute is one of more than 20 international experts calling for precautions for cell phone use.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The precaution comes on the heels of a not-yet-published <strong>international study pointing to cell phones as a potential health risk<\/strong>, said Dr. Ronald Herberman.<\/p>\n<p>UPMC employee Amy Joe McDade said she doesn&#8217;t even have a landline phone at home and that she and her husband use their cell phones for everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153My cell phone&#8217;s important,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said McDade. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It&#8217;s my alarm clock, communicate with my husband, my kids, day care. It&#8217;s making me second guess my cell phone use and definitely the cell phone use for my children.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Herberman said he&#8217;s become increasingly concerned about the <strong>data pointing to the hazards of cell phones and the electromagnetic waves reaching parts of the brain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This potentially could contribute to increased risk for developing brain tumors, particularly the area of brain close to the ear,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Herberman.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There&#8217;s no debate the cell signal gets into the brains, and <strong>it gets more deeply into the brain of children<\/strong> then it does in adults,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dr. Devra Davis.<\/p>\n<p>Among the suggestions to limiting exposure is don&#8217;t allow children to use a cell phone except in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever possible <strong>use a speaker phone or BlueTooth, which has one-one hundredth of the electromagnetic emission of a cell phone<\/strong>. Even texting is safer, experts said, because the phone is in your hand.<\/p>\n<p>And experts suggest <strong>avoiding carrying your cell phone on your body<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH &#8212; The director of the UPMC Cancer Institute is one of more than 20 international experts calling for precautions for cell phone use. The precaution comes on the heels of a not-yet-published international study pointing to cell phones as a potential health risk, said Dr. Ronald Herberman. UPMC employee Amy Joe McDade said she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}