Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: thedoc on 05/04/2011 18:37:39
Title: Can mobile phones really lead to diseases?
Post by: thedoc on 05/04/2011 18:37:39
Can mobile phones really lead to cancer and other diseases? Asked by Layne Seed Larson & Egle Jankauskaite, Facebook
Go to the show page. (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/specials/wcsj/show/2011.04.03/)
Title: Can mobile phones really lead to diseases?
Post by: thedoc on 05/04/2011 18:37:39
We put this question to Professor Paul Elliott from Imperial College in London.. Paul - We don't have a biological mechanism to explain why mobile phones might cause cancer. If you like, the study is taking a long term view because we don't have a mechanism. As well as looking at cancers, we’ll be looking at other neurological degenerative diseases such as motor neuron disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson’s disease, and cerebrovascular disease.