French Health Ministry warns about heavy cell phone use
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France's Ministry of Health made a statement yesterday warning citizens not to use their cell phones too much, although actual data on specific health risks remains inconclusive.
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Heavy mobile phone use may be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland, a study suggests.
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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.
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Mobile phone signals will be jammed in French cinemas and theatres to prevent audience disturbance.
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Cellphones are now being used to report from the field in Rwanda, enabling health care workers to better track and manage patients.
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Watch a movie or make a mobile phone call. Soon, in France, you might not be able to do both at once...
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We must cleanse ourselves of this electrosmog The German Government has told the country to avoid using Wi-Fi whenever possible, because of the possible risks to health, according to a report in UK newspaper The Independent on Sunday.â¦
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The French Government has moved to appease cinema and theatre patrons who complain about the shrill ring tones and incessant beeps from mobile phones.
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(InfoWorld) - French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons. The ban on BlackBerry devices is just one of the IT challenges facing new National Assembly members as they take their seats following Sunday's elections. The smartphones, developed by Canadian company Research in Motion, send and receive e-mail through just a handful of servers in the United Kingdom and in North America -- a reality brought home when a failed software upgrade to the North American servers in April abruptly halted service to BlackBerry users there. This concentration of data poses a threat to national security, according to Alain Juillet, senior economic intelligence advisor to the French Prime Minister, because of the risk of data interception. There's reason to believe that Juillet knows what he's talking about when it comes to industrial or political espionage: after a career in retail, Juillet made headlines in October 2002 when he was appointed Director of Intelligence for the French General Directorate of External Security, the country's foreign security service, moving to the role of senior economic intelligence advisor in December 2003. In his most recent post, he has long maintained that French government and businesses should be more wary of how they use technology to exchange information. The French Secretary-General for National Defense first circulated advice to government officials two years ago, warning them not to use BlackBerry devices. That same advice has now been reissued, Juillet's office said Wednesday. The republication of the advice coincides with the arrival of newly elected officials and their advisors, unfamiliar with the French administration's rules and traditions on using IT, in the National Assembly, following Sunday's national elections. Many of the new arrivals will face another IT challenge as they move into their offices at the National Assembly: learning to use an unfamiliar suite of software on their computer. Last year, the outgoing National Assembly voted to install open source software on their desktop machines. That software is already installed on the machines of the assembly's existing members: new members get their software update after being allocated an office. Government officials were not immediately available to identify which open source software is being used.
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Using cell phones near hospital beds or important equipment is dangerous and could switch off ventilators or disrupt pacemakers, Dutch researchers said on Thursday.
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InfoWorld - French government members and their advisors have been told not to use BlackBerry smartphones, for national security reasons. The ban on BlackBerry devices is just one of the IT challenges facing new National Assembly members as they take their seats following Sunday&#39;s elections.
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Swedish research institute finds that 10 or more years of cell phone use may increase the risk of acoustic neuroma, a noncancerous tumor.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Careful -- some mobile phone tunes could be hazardous to your health.
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A study of 400,00 Danes debunks cell phone-cancer link. Does evidence for other ailments remain? In Gear Factor.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish study suggests that people who use a cell 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 Thursday with The Associated Press, one of the researchers behind the preliminary study, Anders Ahlbom, said the results were surprising and more research is needed...
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(Munster) - Some health officials in northwest Indiana say it might be time for hospitals to lift bans on cellphone calls. They say research that shows the phones don&#39;t interfere with medical equipment.
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People are becoming addicted to mobile phones, causing them to become stressed and irritable, psychologists say.