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Mobile phones officially under suspicion

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World Health Organization says evidence that heavy mobile-phone use causes brain cancer is slim — but not zero.

Mobile-phone use has joined the World Health Organization's purgatorial category of "possibly carcinogenic for humans".

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Abbott, A. Mobile phones officially under suspicion. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.341

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