Mobile phones affect lab rat memory

Experiments at the Division of Neurosurgery in Sweden's Lund University have revealed that rats exposed to mobile phone radiation for two hours a week for over a year results in the rats being less successful with memory tests. The tests involved rats being released into a box and showing interest in the objects it contained; rats exposed to mobile phone radiation were less interested than the 'control' rats. [Sources: Press release (Swedish); idw-online.de]

Mobiles "don't increase tumour risk"

The BBC reports that research from Tokyo Women's Medical University appears to show no additional risk of brain tumours from using mobile phones. The study, which is reported in the British Journal of Cancer, looked at at total of 1005 people.