Tag: Cancer
Cancer avoiding cigarette packet headset
Now you can protect your brain at the same time you protect your lungs. This bizarre mobile phone headset is obviously designed for those among you who feel the need to show off that you’re neither getting cancer from smoking nor from pressing a mobile into your head every day…
Mobile phones worse than smoking or asbestos, neurosurgeon claims
A top British neurosurgeon and medical researcher, Dr Vini Khurana, has publicly spoken out about the dangers he sees in the use of mobile phones.
With something of an obsession — he’s published over 30 papers on cell phones and their links to disease — he doesn’t mince his words.
“Mobile phones could have health consequences far greater than asbestos and smoking. There is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours.”…
Cancer charity holding 'World's Biggest Coffee Morning' in Second Life
At last, a reason to log back into Second Life that doesn’t involve getting spammed by a brand. UK charity Macmillan Cancer Support is holding what it says is the ‘World’s Largest Coffee Morning’ this Friday within the virtual world, at its new virtual cancer information centre.
It’s been created for Macmillan by Second Life creative firms New Business Horizons and Phoenix Film & Television. Visitors to the centre will be served virtual coffee all day, while giant coffee cups are being placed around the Second Life world to attract donations, with every donor getting a free virtual t-shirt by way of thanks.
No cancer risk from mobile phone usage, Danish study suggests
Every so often someone tells us all that prolonged use of mobile phones is bad for our health (it's usually in the Daily Mail or on This Morning, isn't it?). Now, however, a two-decade study by the Danish Institute of…
