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Various of people walking in street speaking into mobile phones2. Various of Dr  Mireille Toledano walking out of Imperial College's Faculty of Medicine and talking on a mobile  3. Various of Toledano...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLondon, UK - August 3, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Various of people walking in street speaking into mobile phones\u003cbr/\u003e2. Various of Dr  Mireille Toledano walking out of Imperial College's Faculty of Medicine and talking on a mobile  \u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of Toledano sitting on a bench and reaching for laptop and mobile phone\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr. Mireille Toledano, lead researcher, Department of Public Health, Imperial College \u003cbr/\u003e\"Skin cancers, blood cancers like leukaemias, we're looking at neuro-degenerative diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and we're going to be looking at cardiovascular health and cerebral vascular health like strokes etc. And a lot of that is because nowadays the way that we're using the phone, people aren't just using their phone by putting it to their head, so our concern is not just about people's head, but full body exposures as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003eLondon, UK - May 5, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e5. Set up of Flora Graham walking through CNET office \u003cbr/\u003e6. Various of CNET researchers trying out latest laptops \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Graham entering laboratory \u003cbr/\u003e8. Various of Graham unpacking new equipment for tests in laboratory \u003cbr/\u003e9. Close of equipment\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Flora Graham, CNET  \u003cbr/\u003e\"If people start to worry about things frankly it doesn't matter if the evidence is there, I mean look at GM (genetically modified) foods for example. What really matters is, is the consumer going to buy it? So if people start worrying about the health effects of mobile phones, even if they're quite insignificant compared to other health effects from other things around them, manufacturers will want to try to target their designs at people's desires.\"\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of products lined up for testing \u003cbr/\u003e12. Close of wireless phone being answered\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English), Flora Graham, CNET  \u003cbr/\u003e\"We're talking things like pills that have wireless transmitters in them that you take. They're activated inside your body and they send feedback to your doctor, or your health provider telling them how your body's responding to medication. Plasters with wireless communication devices on them and they'll do things like deliver medication directly to your body and monitor how that's affecting you. So people who have, for example, heart arrhythmia, they can find it very difficult to diagnose because they have to go to the doctor every time. If you had a pill, or a plaster that had a wireless transmitter in it, it could constantly monitor your health. Now those signals are at a very low level and of course, the people who are manufacturing them insist that's there's absolutely no risk to them. But nevertheless, we're talking about having wireless signals not just near our bodies, not just on our bodies, but actually inside our bodies all the time.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWisconsin, US - October 2007\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various of staff using portable ultrasound monitor and probe\u003cbr/\u003eThis year and next the World Health Organisation will oversee two major reviews on mobile phones, the first to assess the risk of cancer and the second to study the effects of exposure to radio frequency fields. \u003cbr/\u003eA clutch of studies have so far acquitted mobile phones and other wireless media of posing a hazard to public health, but until now these have been short term.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's so much a part of our everyday lives we don't think twice about it.\u003cbr/\u003eWireless technology has unleashed us from the office and according to many mobile companies, it has set us free.\u003cbr/\u003eThe World Health Organisation (WHO) says there are at least four and a half billion of us contracted to mobile phone companies.\u003cbr/\u003eThe sheer volume of global use makes it important to investigate, monitor and assess whether mobiles could pose a health risk, the WHO says.\u003cbr/\u003eLondon's Imperial College has already begun to track over two million adult mobile phone users in the UK.\u003cbr/\u003eThe study called COSMOS is expected to be the most thorough, checking on the group over the next 30 years.\u003cbr/\u003eResearchers have permission to access the medical records of everyone taking part as well as their mobile phone company records.\u003cbr/\u003ePrevious studies have focussed on the brain.\u003cbr/\u003eBut lead researcher Dr. Mireille Toledano says it vital to investigate other areas as well.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Skin cancers, blood cancers like leukaemias, we're looking at neuro-degenerative diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and we're going to be looking at cardiovascular health and cerebral vascular health like strokes etc,\" she says.\u003cbr/\u003e\"That is because nowadays the way that we're using the phone, people aren't just using their phone by putting it to their head, so our concern is not just about people's head, but full body exposures as well.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAlthough studies on short term use of mobile phones and health have been reassuring, some diseases take many years to develop and mobile technology is relatively new.\u003cbr/\u003eToledano believes it's vital to identify if there are any possible health effects from such a new and widespread technology.\u003cbr/\u003eBut undeniably, each day, it is becoming more central to the smooth running our everyday lives.\u003cbr/\u003eChildren now are growing up alongside and using mobile technology.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Karolinska Institute in Sweden is one of several centres now focussing on the impact of wireless equipment on youngsters. \u003cbr/\u003eMobile expert Flora Graham reviews the latest gadgets to reach the market for CNET the online technology site.\u003cbr/\u003eGraham believes mobile companies will begin to adapt phone models as soon as there is any suggestion that there is a problem.\u003cbr/\u003e\"If people start to worry about things frankly it doesn't matter if the evidence is there, I mean look at GM (genetically modified) foods for example. What really matters is, is the consumer going to buy it? So if people start worrying about the health effects of mobile phones, even if they're quite insignificant compared to other health effects from other things around them, manufacturers will want to try to target their designs at people's desires,\" she says.\u003cbr/\u003eIt's not just in communications that wireless technology is becoming essential.\u003cbr/\u003eCompanies are making a big push to expand the wireless market now that nearly everyone already has a phone.\u003cbr/\u003eThis sort of technology is now being increasingly used in the field of medicine.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We're talking about pills that have wireless transmitters in them that you take. They're activated inside your body and they send feedback to your doctor, or your health provider telling them how your body's responding to medication,\" says Graham.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Plasters with wireless communication devices on them and they'll deliver medication directly to your body and monitor how that's affecting you. So people who have, for example, heart arrhythmia, they can find it very difficult to diagnose because they have to go to the doctor every time. If you had a pill, or a plaster which had a wireless transmitter in it, it could constantly monitor your health.\"\u003cbr/\u003eMedicine is being transformed, this portable ultrasound device will allow doctors to more easily check for defects defects such as heart problems in people with high cholesterol levels. \u003cbr/\u003eGraham points out that the use of such equipment in the medical field is tightly regulated.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Those signals are at a very low level and of course, the people who are manufacturing them insist that's there's absolutely no risk to them. 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