Judge Strikes Down City's Controversial Cell Phone Law
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge on Thursday struck down most of a San Francisco ordinance that requires retailers to warn customers about cellphone r...
SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge on Thursday struck down most of a San Francisco ordinance that requires retailers to warn customers about cellphone r...
Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 12.24.2011
by Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff Executive Director/CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org What kind of world do we live in when the one thing...
Posted 12.20.2011
By Paul Elias, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- San Francisco's attempt to wade into the hotly debated relationship between cell-phone use an...
Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.04.2011
Just as San Francisco's first-in-the-nation cell phone radiation law goes into effect, a trade group representing the nation's cell phone manufacturer...
Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 10.03.2011
In fact, official commentary on the JNCI report draws an astonishing, disturbing and deeply misleading conclusion when they deduce that children face no special risks from cellphones.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.27.2011
"Cell Phones Don’t Increase Cancer Risk in Kids." From USA Today to CBS News, variations of this hopeful-sounding headline now abound after yesterda...
AP | PETER SVENSSON | Posted 08.05.2011
NEW YORK — News last week that an arm of the World Health Organization said cellphones might raise the risk of brain cancer has been greeted by ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 07.20.2011
A group of experts from the World Health Organization has classified the radiation emitted from cell phones as a possible cancer-causing agent, conclu...
AOL Weird News | David Moye | Posted 11.16.2011
The Internet is all abuzz about a reported new study suggesting cell phones cause the world's suddenly dwindling population of bees. Now the British ...
aolnews.com | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 200 million people in the U.S. talk on cell phones a total of at least 12 hours a month -- some double or triple that amount. Almost ever...
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
Whether or not there is bona fide danger in routine use of cell phones is, in fact, still unresolved. As often happens when the stakes are high and the science murky, passions and convictions tend to be running ahead of the data.
Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011
New studies show that just 50 minutes of cell phone radiation excites the brain. This finding strengthens the need for a research program and for putting warning labels on cell phones.
Hyla Cass, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The bottom line is that electropollution continually disturbs the sympathetic nervous system. This, in turn, elevates the body's fight-and-flight response, raising levels of the stress hormone, cortisol.
AP | TREVOR HUNNICUTT | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — In this city known for producing laws both path-breaking and contentious, legislators have forcefully stepped into another debat...
Elaine Shannon | Posted 05.25.2011
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has voted 10-to-1 to require that cell phone retailers post the radiation output of various cell phones.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco could soon start requiring retailers to post notices showing how much radiation is emitted by the cell phones they...
Posted 11.17.2011
We've all heard that cell phone radiation is potentially bad for our health. You can avoid cell phone radiation by implementing these smart strategies...
Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2011
The long awaited World Health Organization Interphone study of more than 5,000 brain tumors that occurred between 2000-2004 and cell phone use failed to deliver a knock-out punch. The story behind the story needs to be told.
Richard Wiles | Posted 05.25.2011
The flashy ads for the latest and most hyped smart phones don't disclose that these new models are also some of the highest radiation emitters among the phones currently on the market.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
SAN FRANCISCO — Mayor Gavin Newsom is endorsing a proposal that would make San Francisco the first city in the country to require radiation labe...
treehugger.com | Posted 11.17.2011
The Environmental Working Group has released a website that sorts through cell phones and shows the emissions levels of over 1,000 cell phone models. ...
AP | By PAUL ELIAS | Posted 12.28.2011