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If you are one to spend long hours on the phone or sleep with your phone beside you, you might want to check that act as reports earlier today from the World health organization (W.H.O) have suggested that cell phone users may be at carcinogenic risk.  In a report issued by the agency, cell phones have been put in the same category as lead, chloroform, and engine exhaust. This is news one would want to take with utmost concern, considering how important cell phones are in our daily activities.

For years now, we have been made to believe that cell phones pose no health risks. So why the sudden change of words? Have we always been at risk? if so,  why hasn’t the number of brain cancer patients increased?

The organisation is said to have recruited 31 of the world’s best scientists for a meeting in France to work on studies regarding this issue. According to the team, enough evidence has been found to state that cell phone radiation is “possibly carcinogenic”.

With the updates made to cell phones daily, the telecommunication device is constantly sending and receiving information through bluetooth, gprs etc thus putting us at risk of harmful radiation. However, studies looking into its potential for causing cancer cant be 100% conclusive at the moment as the cell phone has only been around for a relatively short period of time. Therefore, it would still take some years before its long-term effects can be studied.

Better safe than sorry-  I urge everyone out there to get hold of a hands-free device, could save you 10 years.

Image source: http://www.personal.psu.edu,

Ade Ogunlewe

Ade grew up in Lagos where he did all his primary and secondary school education at Grace Children School and Whitesands School respectively. After completing both tiers of education, he left Nigeria at the age of 17 to pursue university education in Canada. He got accepted and is now currently enrolled at McMaster University, Hamilton Ontario, where he is studying Earth and Environmental Science. Being a 90’s kid, technology has been a huge part of Ade’s life, from when he got his first Nintendo Gameboy to his first Personal Computer. Therefore, he is no stranger to the possibilities and vast emergence of information technology in the world. Writing about technological advances and innovations is just one of the many joys Ade receives from life. In his spare time, Ade likes to surf the web, read novels and play soccer. He is an avid lover of sports, soccer especially, and supports Arsenal FC of London England.

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