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BBC News, February 5, 2003
http://dynamics.org/Altenberg/MED/CELL_PHONES/_SEARCH/BBC.2003-2-5.html
"Mobile phones damage key brain cells and could trigger the early onset of Alzheimer’s disease, a study suggests.
Researchers in Sweden have found that radiation from mobile phone handsets damages areas of the brain associated with learning, memory and
movement. The study, which was carried out on rats, is the latest twist in the long-running debate over whether mobile phones are a health risk.
Scientists have yet to find any conclusive evidence that mobile phones damage the human brain.
This latest study was carried out by Professor Leif Salford and colleagues at Lund University in Malmo."
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