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dipsydoodle

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Mon May 19, 2014, 07:06 PM May 2014

Mobile phone child health risk investigation

A major investigation into whether mobile phones and other wireless technologies affect children's mental development is getting under way.

The study - funded by the government and industry - will track 2,500 11- and 12-year-olds from September.

It will look at their cognitive ability - thinking skills, memory and attention - and then repeat the tests in 2017.

The researchers say "very little" is known about what impact these technologies have on children.

The World Health Organization has said research in this area is of the "highest priority".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27475515

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Mobile phone child health risk investigation (Original Post) dipsydoodle May 2014 OP
And then what will they do? Request a ban? non sociopath skin May 2014 #1
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