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Mobile Phones Found To Reduce A Man’s Fertility by 30

According to researchers in Hungary, if you are a man and you walk around with a mobile (cell) phone, you could be reducing your fertility by a third. The radiation emanating from the phone may reduce the total number of sperm by 30%. // Researchers examined 200 men. The evidence was quite stark. The researchers found that the males who walked around with their phones switched on (on...

Testing Your Health & Charging Your Mobile At One Go - Check Out The Urine Powered Batteries

Imagine a credit card-sized, urine-powered paper battery that could make healthcare tests cheaper and even charge mobile phones! Current biochips need an external reader such as a laser scanner or an external source of power // , such as conventional batteries, to perform diagnostic tests. The technology developed by Ki Bang Lee at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechn...

An Under Estimation Of The Radiation Hazard With The Use Of Mobile Phones

Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ~Alan Valentine Mobile technology, specifically the use of cell phones, has become an internal part of today’s life all around the globe and has permanently changed our perception about life and communication. Very little information is available about the radiation risk associa...

Mobile phones may influence normal brain functioning

The increasing number of telecommunication devices available and the length of time spent using mobile telephones has aroused interest for possible interactions between humans and radio-frequency (RF) radiations.// It has been proposed that a precautionary principle should be adopted, particularly for children even if, at present, there is no convincing scientific data to recommend such a limited...

Driving While Using A Mobile Phone May Be Dangerous

It is extremely dangerous to talk over one’s mobile phone while driving a vehicle. The cost of switching activities may be in terms of accuracy and response time, as efficiently switching over to a new task can be // prevented by structural cognitive limitations, according to Oregon State University’s Assistant Professor of Psychology Mei-Ching Lien. This includes simple tasks also....

Jharkhand To Have Mobile Hospital

A mobile hospital will soon be launched in Jharkhand for poor people in the state.// Initially five such mobile hospitals will begin operating from January next year. A health department official told IANS: "These mobile hospitals with expert doctors will cover rural areas in 22 districts where the poor are deprived of medical facilities." Each mobile hospital w...

Woman swallows mobile phone - assault by boyfriend?

Police are not sure whether the reasons for swallowing the mobile phone by a 24 year women was an assault by her boyfriend or she purposely swallowed the mobile phone. // The Blue Spring Police are investigated the incident in which it is said that the young lady purposely swallowed the mobile phone during an argument with her boy friend in which she did not want to give the mobile phone to her b...

Mobile Phones Do Not Inflict Brain Damage

The human memory does not get affected due to the use of mobile phones, nor do mobile phones inflict brain damage. This has been revealed by researchers belonging to the Essex University//. The research was headed by Professor Riccardo Russo. The researchers strapped mobiles to volunteers' heads and asked them to do several memory tests. Participants were not told whether the phones were on or of...

Snappy Mobiles Known To Cause Snappish Behavior in Families

There is a flip side to cell phones as well! The Cell Boom, a boon to communication has turned a bane to family relationships, according to a recent study.// As part of the study, more than a thousand steady mobile phone users were tracked for over 2 years. The study revealed a definite decline in satisfied family relationships, attributed to constant mobile communication that invad...

Mobile Endoscopic Facilities For Health Screening

Mobile clinics equipped with endoscopic facilities will be available for rural people, who mostly had to wait for a long time for treatment and diagnosis.// NHS Lothian will be organizing mobile endoscopic diagnostics along with mobile clinics. Endoscopic procedures are mostly useful in diagnosing the disease conditions inside the body which becomes visible on a screen through the camera fitted o...

Use Of Mobiles Does Not Result In Tumors

Scientists belonging to the UK's Institute of Cancer Research have revealed that there is no increased risk of developing brain tumor as a result of using mobile phones. The use of mobile phones is in no way connected to glioma, according to the scientists. // Many other researches conducted in Europe and the US had also yielded the same conclusions. The latest research covered 13 na...

Snowmobile accidents, on the rise in Canada

A study conducted by Margaret Keresteci said that young men who are under the influence of alcohol are at a very high risk of snowmobiling. Canadian Institute for Health Information said that the statistics reveal the truth that// most of the accidents happen in the month of February. The accidents due to snowmobiling are twice as those of snowboarding or skiing. In 2003-04 there were...

Mobile Operating Theater to Cut Waiting Times

A mobile hospital that is being started in the grounds of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary at a cost of ￡1 million, aims to cut down the waiting times for patients//. The hospital is equipped with an operating theatre and health bosses hope that bout 200 operations can be carried out here. NHS Grampian said that this is the first Scottish theatre to employ a ward as well. The van has been l...

Pilot Study to Test Effect of Mobile Phone Transmissions On Skin To Begin In Finland

HELSINKI - The radiation watchdog in Finland has decided to test the effects of radiation released from of mobile phones on human proteins by testing them directly on human skin in order to determine if these transmissions are detrimental to human health.// A pilot study that is scheduled to begin sometime next week will expose a small area of skin on the participants' arms to cell phon...

Mobile Clinic For Sex Workers In Pune

A special clinic on wheels is being launched for sex workers in Pune that would provide AIDS counseling and treatment for sexually transmitted// disease along with blood test facilities all for free of cost. A mobile clinic that would provide blood test facilities, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS counselling to thousands of sex workers for free is being launched h...

Brainteaser Sudoku Games On Mobile Phones

New Delhi: Sudoku, the new-age avatar of the ubiquitous crossword puzzles, is all set to conquer Indian mobile phones. "Starting next week, Airtel will introduce this popular puzzle to its subscribers on their handsets. // The application will be the first to be available on any mobile phone in India," said an official of Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited (BTVL), one of India's leading provi...

New User-Friendly Mobile Device Launched For At Risk People

It is widely known that mobile phones can serve as life-saving gadgets during emergencies, enabling the victim communicate with friends //, relatives or hospitals. The truth however is that it is not being widely used by high-risk individuals such as elderly people who suffer from chronic diseases and other age-related disorders. A new device has now been launched, that provides users...

Lightning Kicks Up a Furore in the Mobile Industry

According to a recent study done in UK it was found that mobile phone used in stormy weather results in serious injury from lightning strikes//. Doctors have warned that there is an increased risk if mobile phones were used in stormy weather conditions. The charge from the lightning is conducted over the skin without entering the body. But conductive materials, such as metallic objects and liqui...

Mobile Phone Messages Assists in Unraveling Murder Mystery

It was a well-planned honeymoon murder, worked out to the last detail. But the mobile phone messages proved their undoing and helped// nail a new bride and her lover in the crime. The murder last Sunday of 30-year-old Anantharaman amid the idyllic locales of this tourist resort in Kerala's Idukki district had been scripted by his wife, 24-year-old Vidyalakshmi, and her lover, before th...

Pregnant Teens Receive Early Care from Mobile Doctors

A program that was begun some six years ago has finally begun to see some results wherein more pregnant teens are attended by mobile doctors //thereby getting the care they need without missing school. The program had initiated the use of a 33-foot-vehicle that would travel to schools in Garland, Texas to provide on-site prenatal and postpartum care to teens. This has helped teens to ge...

Using Mobile Phones For 45 Minutes Causes Excitation In The Brain

A new study published in the journal Annals of Neurology, says that radiation emitted from mobile phones excites the neurons in the brain. //This is the first study to show that mobile phone affect the brain after years of health concerns over these gadgets. Italian researchers found in the current study that mobile phones excite the neurons of the area of the brain closest to the pho...

Cell Operators Claim that Mobile Towers Pose no Health Hazards

Mobile telephone towers do not pose any health risk, cell operators said Wednesday adding that the expansion of mobile services// in the country would be affected if such misconceptions were not cleared. The myths about mobile towers were coming in the way of installing more towers, especially in residential areas, to provide better services to subscribers, Cellular Operators Association...

Mobiles As Addictive As Smoking In Youngsters

New research finds that mobile phones are as addictive as cigarettes among young people. Psychologist Dr David Sheffield, the lead author of the research //said that the constant habit of being attached to their mobile phones was causing stress among youngsters. His study found that one in seven became restless if they were away from their phone for a long time, while 14 per cent woul...

Ban on mobile usage in hospitals uncalled for, says a report

Experts have said in the British Medical Journal that the ongoing restrictions on mobile phone use in hospitals since 1990, based on mythical safety risks, are uncalled for and should be quashed. // Mobile phones were banned in hospitals after fears of their interference in medical equipment, and to prevent the potential confusion between the sound of an alarm from a medical equipmen...

Mobile use increases risk of infertility in men

A recent research proposes that radiations from handsets may affect fertility in men as heavy users of mobile have markedly lower sperm count than normal.// A study conducted on 361 infertility patients in the U.S. showed that with the increase in the daily mobile use by the man, there was a decrease in both the quantity and quality of his sperm. There was a 40% reduction in sperm coun...

Mobile Robots Offer 24/7 Care to Neurosurgical ICU, Stroke Patients

Two nearly 6-foot tall, remote-controlled robots are now on staff at The Methodist Hospital, caring for critically ill patients suffering from stroke or other neurological// problems. Methodist's neurosurgical-ICU (NICU) and Eddy Scurlock Stroke Center are the first in Houston to use this wireless robotic technology to help provide 24/7 coverage for patients, giving them immediate acc...

India to Procure Container Based Mobile Hospital

Government of India, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is procuring a pre-fabricated, self-contained, container based mobile hospital. This hospital, with 100 beds would// have state of art operation theatre, diagnostic facilities including CT scan, kitchen, water purification, sanitary unit and its own power generator. This container based hospital would be located in New Delhi a...

Government Plans to Set Up Mobile Dispensaries in States

Mobile dispensaries will do the rounds of rural areas as part of a government plan to reach healthcare to the needy and marginalized populations. // The government has released initial funds to the tune of Rs. 1.5 billion to states to set up mobile medical units in rural areas. According to a health ministry document, these funds have been given under the National Rural He...

Mobile Phone and Cancer – A Detailed Study to Understand the Risk

Nearly 200,000 volunteers are slated to participate in a five-year study, to evaluate the risks of brain cancer, for long term users of the mobile phone// . Professor Lawrie Challis, an authority on mobile phone radiation, is in the final stage of discussion with the Department of Health and the mobile phone industry. If the talks are successful, the duo will contribute towards sponso...

Mobile Technology to Meet Healthcare Needs

For those who thought ‘the twain shall never meet’- health care and mobile technology, it is indeed a nice// surprise. A conglomeration of powerful groups - the GSM Association's Development Fund, the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, Accenture Development Partnership, Motorola Inc., MTN South Africa, and Voxiva have come out with Phones-for–Health; a plan to i...

Motion C5: Mobile Clinical Assistant

Motion C5, a mobile clinical information management device by Intel and Motion Computing, is no longer a rumor//, or a prototype. Intel says that it is starting to ship the device to hospitals around the world, to 'enable nurses to spend more time with patients, do their jobs on the move while remaining connected, and manage the administration of medications.' Motion C5 features an im...

Mobile Phone Addiction may Cause Psychological Problems

Teenagers who use mobile phones for many hours a day - talking and sending messages or missed calls - may develop psychological disorders, says a study that advices "a reasonable use" for positive effects. // Francisca Lopez Torrecillas, a lecturer at the department of personality and psychological assessment and treatment of the University of Granada, surveyed several 18 to 25-year-...

Worlds first mobile light surgery

A hospital in Hanoi lost power in the middle of an operation forcing doctors to operated using the lights of their mobile phones. Doctors in the Vietnamese hospital// were trying to deliver a caesarean during the incident, which was reported by one of the doctors on Thursday. The surgeons were at a crucial point in a caesarean-section operation on a mother. It was at this point when th...

Urgent Need for Guidance on Mobile Phone Use in Clinical Care

Both national and international guidelines on the use of mobile phones in the provision of clinical care are urgently needed, an editorial in the June issue of Quality and Safety in Health Care argues. Healthcare systems are increasing looking to developments in mobile communication technology to help improve the provision of care to people with long-term conditions, such as diabet...

Not Only Mobile Phones, Even Passengers can Increase the Risk of Road Accidents

A new study has found that apart from using mobile phones while driving, even carrying more number of passengers in a vehicle could increase the risk of a crash. The study, by The George Institute for International Health, was intended to determine the danger of a crash related with passenger carriage compared with that of using a mobile phone while driving. And the r...