Cancer test for mobile phones

  • 08/12/1997

With up to a third of Australians now using mobile phones, the Federal Government has commissioned a study to determine if they damage users' brains. With almost six million Australians connected to the mobile phone network, concerns have increased that they could be bombarding brains with harmful doses of electromagnetic radiation. Yesterday the parliamentary secretary to the federal Health Minister, Ms Trish Worth, announced a $1million grant for the study.