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Cancer Doc Tells Colleagues to Lay Off Cellphones

Posted on July 24, 2008

In a startling warning on cellphone safety, the head of a cancer research center in Pittsburgh told faculty and staff to curb their use of mobile phones because of a possible risk of cancer. Sara Loughran, a doctoral student at the University of Pittsburgh, chats with her mother. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) The alarm came from Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, the Associated Press reports.His advice, contained in a memo to 3,000 faculty and staff, says kids should only use cellphones for emergencies and adults should keep the phones away from their head...

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