“Cell phones and other electrical devices can cause cancer among the users” it has been a heated issue for a quite long time.

Origin of this concept

The origin of this widespread concept is those scientific studies that suggest a link between cell phones and brain cancer is found. Similarly, many lawsuits and news headlines show concerns about possible link between cell phones and cancer. Almost 30% American believe that a connection is found between cancer and cell phones.

What is the real thing?

There are some studies that suggest a link between the use of cell phone and some rare kinds of brain tumors but according to some other well-designed population studies no such link is found between cell phone use and brain tumor. It is not an easy task to conduct precise studies to know the risk factors for some rare cancers like brain cancer. The biggest hurdle in the way of precise study is the collection of reliable data. In this connection, those studies that gather information from healthy people about latent risk factors and then follow the cases for many years to observe which diseases development can be relied.

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If we look for a donkey with horns, we may succeed to find but sorry to say in this so-called civilized and modern age we can’t get some fresh air to take deep breaths. Pollution is one of those gifts this modern rapid, fast progress in industrialization offers to humankind.

It wasn’t convincingly realized before but now some researches suggest that even low levels of pollution can also be dangerous for the heart and lungs. The analyses of the researchers were published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers focused on how small particles that were found in the air affected the function of lungs. In this new research, some studies that were published in the same journal earlier this year were also defended by the researchers. In those previous studies it was shown, how air pollution contributed to heart problems. Is it a grave issue or need not to be worry? U.S. news asked some key questions from renowned experts in this connection.

How can you define particulate pollution?

A report from American Lung Association defines particulate pollution as a mixture of solid and liquid elements in the air that comes from natural sources as wildfires and dust storms, human activities as to burn fossil fuels in the factories or to use diesel engines. Some other particles also take place when some chemicals or materials act in response with another chemical or material in the atmosphere.

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The chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee announced on Monday that the Committee would look into the government’s funding of research in an underprivileged, black neighborhoods to test whether sewage sludge might protect children from lead- poisoning in the soil.

According to the report, of the Associated Press, on Sunday that the blend of human and manufacturing wastes from sewage management plants was applied on the lawns of nine poor families in Baltimore and an unoccupied lot near an elementary school in East St. Louis, Ill., to find whether lead in the soil from chipped paint and car drains would join to it.

This research was sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Agriculture Department and the Environmental Protection Agency and it was done in 2001 and 2002.

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