27 July 2007
Negative health symptoms reported by residents living close to mobile phone masts are not caused by the masts themselves, a recent study has found.
Researchers at Essex University have conducted one of the largest studies into the short term effects of mobile phone masts, and found their results to disprove those which claim the towers are bad for people's health.
The most commonly reported symptoms include anxiety, tension and tiredness, but tests conducted on 44 people who claim to suffer from the masts and 114 people who have never complained of such effects, found that in the lab the effect of mobile phone radiation made no change.
"The Essex study is one of the largest and most detailed of these experiments and its findings, that mobile phone signals are not responsible for the symptoms that some people describe, are in line with those from most other previous experiments," said Dr James Rubin, of the Mobile Phones Research Unit at Kings College London
"This should be reassuring news for anyone who is concerned about the possible short-term health effects of masts," he added.
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