Can Mobile Phones Harm Children?
There are currently around 50 million mobile phones being used in the UK and they continue to increase in popularity, as new features become available. Just as you struggle to remember life before TV, it would be unimaginable not to have mobile phones – our children have never known a world without them. While most studies have found no raised risk of brain tumour the long-term effects of using a mobile regularly are still not known as they have only been in widespread use since the 90’s. It’s Just a Little Phone, How Bad Can it be? Some ten year reports are now being published overseas that report increased incidences of tumours on nerves that connect the ear to the brain and in the UK, there has been so much concern that the Government and industry are jointly funding a series of studies as part of the £7.4 million Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, the results of which will not be available for some time. That said, official advice is only to let children aged
