{"id":4312,"date":"2011-05-31T18:55:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/?p=4312"},"modified":"2011-05-31T18:55:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:55:46","slug":"who-cell-phone-use-can-increase-possible-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/who-cell-phone-use-can-increase-possible-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same &#8220;carcinogenic hazard&#8221; category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.<\/p>\n<p>Before its announcement Tuesday, WHO had assured consumers that no adverse health effects had been established.<\/p>\n<p>A team of 31 scientists from 14 countries, including the United States, made the decision after reviewing peer-reviewed studies on cell phone safety. The team found enough evidence to categorize personal exposure as &#8220;possibly carcinogenic to humans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What that means is that right now there haven&#8217;t been enough long-term studies conducted to make a clear conclusion if radiation from cell phones are safe, but there is enough data showing a possible connection that consumers should be alerted.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/05\/31\/who.cell.phones\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2011\/HEALTH\/05\/31\/who.cell.phones\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN) &#8212; Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same &#8220;carcinogenic hazard&#8221; category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform. Before its announcement Tuesday, WHO had assured consumers that no adverse health effects had been \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/who-cell-phone-use-can-increase-possible-cancer-risk\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4283],"class_list":["post-4312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-cell-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/divineearth.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}