I am less worried about the physical effects on a cellular level than I am about the possible effects on an electromagnetic level.

The brain is electrical and chemical, and EM waves travelling right through your head on their way to and from the receiver can NOT been good.

The problems are not just with the brain and not only from mobile phones. The whole body works with electro magnetism to send "signals" around the body. You might be interested in looking at some stuff by a physicist by the name of Robert Becker. Here's a link to a place I found just doing a quick search.

Please identify the source of funding for this study!

"Lai says there have been about 200 studies on the biological effects of cell-phone-related radiation. If you put all the ones that say there is a biological effect on one side and those that say there is no effect on the other, you'd have two piles roughly equal in size. The research splits about 50-50.

"That, in and of itself, is alarming," Lai says. But it's not the whole story. If you divide up the same 200 studies by who sponsored the research, the numbers change.

"When you look at the non-industry sponsored research, it's about three to one-three out of every four papers shows an effect," Lai says. "Then, if you look at the industry-funded research, it's almost opposite-only one out of every four papers shows an effect."

The problem, he adds, is that there is no longer funding available in the United States that isn't attached to the industry. Lai, for one, refuses to take any more industry money."

Google this: "HENRY LAI HAS A VIVID RECOLLECTION OF HIS INTRODUCTION to the politics of big science" and have a good read!

This was a cell phone industry funded study that avoided tryign to replicate previous studies that DID show DNA damage.

"Since then, another group, working out of Washington University in St. Louis with industry funding, has tried to replicate the experiment, but without success. According to Lai and Phillips, that group is doing the study differently, including using a different technique to gauge DNA damage.

"They haven't properly replicated the work that Henry did, or that I did," Phillips says."

google: "university washington alumni march 2005 henry lai" page 3

The next step, would be a nanocellular insert, behind the users ear, that would lie in the meatus, which would be sealed by surface skin.

The circuitry could be reduced, to about a quarter of an inch, utilizing the bodies own in-place voltage, to power this miniature cell phone.

There could be a subskin interface, which lets the user upload new software, either by electromagnetic induction, to this point by the ear, or by a specially closed interface, that they could get a new updates, via a special station on satellite television.

Since the operating power, is so very low, there would be little or no chance of causing any sort of tumor.

This is not a strange idea, as fillings in teeth, by chance also have shown radio receptive capabilities.

The area of a virus download, to this circuitry, could in theory affect the users intent, within their brains?

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I hope you didn't quote philip307.

We are in the beginning of a global experiment concerning health and cellphones :)
We need them don't we, so, use hands free or at least the 'loud speaker'. You do know that those 'sms' that you wipe out of your phone can be recovered? And that you can be 'tracked' via your cellphone too? Here are three links that doesn't show that undivided enthusiasm that the headline above proclaimed.

"The blood-brain barrier has been shown to be affected by radiation in animal studies."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2053565.stm

"Effect of cell phone usage on semen analysis in men attending infertility clinic: an observational study."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?i...t_uids=17482179

"Subjective symptoms, sleeping problems, and cognitive performance in subjects living near mobile phone base stations."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?c...l=pubmed_docsum

Whether we believe it or not, one can use common sense :)

Check this out. I recently purchased a microwave leakage detector and compared the leakage of radiation between various microwave ovens and various cell phones. Although the detector does not give me an exact number for the radiation level, it either registers somewhere in the safe zone, or somewhere in the dangerous zone.
1) On 3 microwave ovens tested, the levels were all in the safe zone.
One older microwave oven tested was near the dangerous zone but not quite in it, barely in the safe zone.

2) On 3 cell phones that I tested, the radiation levels while talking on the phones
were in the dangerous zone for 2 of the phones, and close to the dangerous zone for 1 of the phones. Here are the phones (all are gsm network phones):

a) Motorola Razr V3 - DANGEROUS LEVEL, but radiation came from the bottom of the phone where the phone would meet your chin area.

b) Older Nokia 5100 series phone -VERY DANGEROUS LEVEL, the radiation came from the top of the phone where it meets the ear.

c) Motorola Razr V3x - Safe level, but barely. Radiation came out of the bottom of the phone like the regular Razr phone.

d) using a regular earpiece (not bluetooth) for all phones, the radiation only came from the phone itself, none near the earpiece. I didn't test bluetooth.

e) No radiation detected when the phones were on but not in use.

f) Less radiation detected from all phones when just listening to someone talking or listening to voicemail, etc. Highest levels were when you are actually doing the talking.

I will eventually purchase a top-level microwave detector so that I can continue testing phones with more exact data, but these tests clearly show that the radiation coming out of these 3 phones is up to 3 times greater than the radiation leaking from the 3 microwave ovens.
Keep in mind that we don't get near as close to a microwave oven as we do to our cell phones. We would never put our ear on a microwave oven for 30 minutes. Because the radiation coming from the phones was so much higher, I believe that 30 minutes with your phone near your ear would the same as putting your ear on the outside of your microwave for 2 hours.
It's up to you if you think that is dangerous or not. I don't think anyone in their right mind would put their ear on the outside of a microwave oven for 3 to 4 hours a day, even if they were being paid good money to do it, well maybe some people would.
Be careful what you read from the studies, I think that something isn't right. Go test it yourself, it's simple.

A few years back there was a teenage boy in the UK who appears to have died because of use of his mobile phone. He was on it for hours every day and developed a tumour in his head. I've known people who have had phone calls upto fourteen hours on normal phones. Surely they must be at risk?

Define short term. Probably a few few minute phone calls a day which most teens exceed by a huge rate.

Further testing using the microwave radiation detector has indicated that non-gsm phones (phones without a SIM card) seem to emit much less radiation than the gsm phones I tested. Further results will be posted when I can measure it more accurately. It may be that the non-gsm radiation is not within the scope of this particular detector, that has to be ruled out before concluding that the non-gsm tested are safer.