The effect of cell phones on human health

Ibrahim N. Abu-Isbeih; Dina Saad

doi:10.1117/12.904751

6 October 2011 The effect of cell phones on human health

Ibrahim N. Abu-Isbeih, Dina Saad

Proceedings Volume 8008, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2011; 80081F (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.904751
Event: Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2011, 2011, Wilga, Poland

Abstract

The effect of cell phone radiation on human health is the subject of recent interest and study, as a result of the enormous increase in cell phone usage throughout the world. Cell phones use electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range, which some believe may be harmful to human health. Other digital wireless systems, such as data communication networks, produce similar radiation. The objective of this survey is to review the effects of cell phones on human health: A large body of research exists, both epidemiological and experimental, in non-human animals and in humans, of which the majority shows no definite causative relationship between exposure to cell phones and harmful biological effects in humans. This is often paraphrased simply as the balance of evidence showing no harm to humans from cell phones, although a significant number of individual studies do suggest such a relationship, or are inconclusive.

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Ibrahim N. Abu-Isbeih and Dina Saad "The effect of cell phones on human health", Proc. SPIE 8008, Photonics Applications in Astronomy, Communications, Industry, and High-Energy Physics Experiments 2011, 80081F (6 October 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.904751

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