The Monday Sidebar…
The cell phone saves the day…
…in the Congo when volunteering British surgeon uses text message instructions to perform a life-saving arm amputation on a young boy who was bitten by a hippopotamus. Seems while general and vascular surgeon David Nott knew that a forequarter amputation was required to save the 16-year-old boy, he’d never actually done one before. Aware that such an operation before was a huge risk, he decided to call in the ‘cavalry’ – that is, he text messaged Professor Meirion Thomas, one of the few British surgeons experienced in such procedures and asked for help. Luckily, his …read more
Pregnant? You Might Want to Ditch the Cell Phone.
May 21, 2008 by Liz Lewis
Filed under Children, Health, Misc., Morning News, Prevention
New research indicates that pregnant women using mobile phones possibly have an increased risk of giving birth to children with behavioural problems.
The study, based on questioning the mothers of over 13,000 children born in the late 1990s, found that…
“… mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely to have children with behavioural problems and that the likelihood increased with the amount of potential exposure to the radiation. And when the children also later used the phones they were, overall, 80 per cent more likely to suffer from difficulties with behaviour. They were 25 per cent more at …read more
