Cell phones safe to use in hospitals: U.S. study
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Calls made on cell phones do not  affect hospital medical devices, U.S. researchers said on  Friday, but store anti-theft alarms might make implanted heart  devices misfire.
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Evidence that mobile phones can interfere with vital intensive care equipment has been strengthened.
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If you haven't already been scared away from using your cell phone, now researchers are checking whether frequent usage can slow brain function.
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A substantial number of "adverse events" -- many of which could have been prevented -- affect children in hospitals each year, according to a new study.
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Anyone who has been inside a hospital probably has been cut off from relatives and colleagues because of a common rule: no cellphones. But some health care facilities are creating wireless networks to let patients, family members, physicians and staff members use their phones.
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Ten or more years of mobile phone use can dramatically increase the risk of developing a benign tumor on the auditory nerve, according to a study conducted by the Institute of Environmental Medicine at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm.
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Using a cellular phone does not increase a person's risk of cancer, according to a broad study released on Tuesday involving more than 400,000 Danish cellular telephone users.
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Radiation emissions absorbed by the head from using mobile phones are cut by using hands-free kits, a study says.
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Experts urged mobile phone users to use their handsets with caution and keep them out of the hands of young children, in a report warning that mobile technology was racing ahead of studies of its potential health hazards.
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KRT) - People who have used cell phones for at least 10 years may have an increased risk of developing a rare brain tumor, according to a study published Wednesday in the international journal Epidemiology.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. cell-phone users are staying away from mobile data services in droves, according to research company IDC. Almost three-quarters of respondents (72.5 percent) in an IDC online survey didn't use any data service other than text-messaging in the third quarter of this year, said analyst Lewis Ward. The company asked 2,506 teen-age and adult users about their attitudes toward data services. Data services are too expensive, respondents said. Mean consumer data spending on data services was about $3.70 per month, with the average young consumer spending more, according to IDC. But even among 18-to-24-year-olds, 47 percent complained about price. In general, U.S. consumers have been slower than those in other countries at adopting mobile data services. The first significant data service, SMS (Short Message Service), was a big hit in Europe and Asia before it was widely adopted in the U.S. Higher per-minute voice costs and lower data prices in those regions have helped drive adoption, Ward said. Today, SMS is a relatively bright spot for U.S. mobile data use. According to the survey, 47 percent of users sent or received an SMS in the third quarter. But Ward said he was surprised to learn how many of those messages come from subscription news and information services. About one-quarter of the messages in that period came from such services, which mobile users sign up for to receive news, sports, financial and other information, according to the survey. About one-fifth of consumers bought a ringtone during the quarter and one tenth bought a wallpaper or a game. But in a written-response portion of the survey, a small percentage of respondents not only didn't use mobile data services but were vehemently opposed to them, Ward said. Some were worried that they degraded voice calls by taking up network capacity, which is not possible on most types of cellular networks. One wrote, "I don't use any of these" followed by seventeen exclamation points, Lewis said. However, Ward sees the U.S. catching up to other parts of the world over the next several years as a more open market lowers prices. At the moment, carriers mostly control what content and services their customers can get, using a "walled-garden" approach. "As the mobile Internet matures, I think it'll become very difficult for carriers to control all aspects of the business model, as they more or less can in the current environment," Ward said. Third-party offerings, some of them free and supported by advertising, will force down prices and help increase adoption, he said. The U.S. is likely to even lead the charge on some mobile services. For example, instant-messaging services that U.S. consumers have widely embraced on their PCs are starting to catch on with the country's mobile users as well, communicating both among themselves and with PC users, Ward said. (IDC is a division of International Data Group, the parent company of IDG News Service.)
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The long-term cancer risk of mobile phone use cannot be ruled out, experts say, after a six-year study.
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By MATT MOORE     STOCKHOLM, Sweden  -- A new Swedish study suggests that people who use a mobile phone for at least 10 years might increase their risk of developing a rare benign tumor along a nerve on the side of the head where they hold the phone.    In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, one of the researchers behind the preliminary study, Anders Ahlbom, said the results were surprising and need to be confirmed by more research...
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Most parents who are thinking of  buying cell phones for their children this Christmas are doing  so for safety reasons, according to a new survey.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Careful -- some mobile phone tunes could be hazardous to your health.
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No hard evidence exists to show mobile  phones damage health but users -- especially children -- should  take care, UK scientists said in a survey Tuesday.
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Nearly all doctors, nurses and managers think their hospitals need to be made safer for patients, a poll suggests.