Your mother may be right: Too much time on the phone may be detrimental to your health. A recent Swedish study shows that people who use mobile phones for more than 10 years could increase their risk of developing a tumor, University Wire reported.
The tumor, which affects hearing, appeared on the side of the head where the phone is held.
The study, conducted by two professors, Ahlbom and Maria Feychting at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, followed 750 Swedes over 10 years. The participants were almost all using analog phones, as opposed to the digital pones now on the market.
"When the side of the head on which the study was taken into consideration we found that the risk of acoustic neuroma was almost four times higher on the same side the phone was held," Ahlbom and Feychting told University Wire.
The U.S. government currently is sponsoring a five-year, $15 million study on the health effects of cell phone radiation in laboratory rats and mice.
-Compiled by Monika Galvydis and Corinne Shamy
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