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As new evidence links mobile phones to a greater risk of tumours, could using one cost your child their life? - Daily Mail 3rd November 2009
"Mobile phones, just how did we live without them? At about 80 million, there are now more mobiles than people in the UK. But since the Nineties, when their use became more widespread, there have been nagging doubts about their safety. "
Teens can demand morning after pill by text - Daily Mail 3rd October 2009
"A health trust is to expand a controversial scheme to allow girls as young as 11 to demand the morning-after pill by text.
Girls at six secondary schools in Oxfordshire have been able to text requests for emergency contraception if they have had unprotected sex, or if they fear condoms have failed."
Mobile phone use linked to brain tumours in 10-year study - Daily Mail 28th October 2009
"Long-term mobile phone use could increase the risk of developing cancer, according to a decade-long landmark study.
The investigation by the World Health Organisation analysed studies of 12,800 people in 13 countries."
Did you see that unicycling clown? Mobile phone users didn't - The Independent on Sunday 25th October 2009
"Pedestrians who talk on a mobile phone are slower, change direction more, have difficulty navigating -- and are less likely to notice obvious distractions like a unicycling clown, a study showed Tuesday.
Researchers observed 317 pedestrians as they crossed the main square of the campus of Western Washington University using the 375-foot-long (114-meter-long) main diagonal pathway."
Long-term use of mobile phones 'may be linked to cancer' - Daily Telegraph 24th October 2009
"Long-term use of mobile phones may be linked to some cancers, a landmark international study will conclude later this year. "
Department of Health under pressure to increase precautions over children’s mobile phone use - Daily Telegraph 24th October 2009
"Pressure is increasing on the Government to increase public health warnings over mobile phones as more fears emerge over their possible risks. "
Health testing by text message for Liverpool and Knowsley patients - Liverpool Daily Post 16th September 2009
EMBARRASSED young people who are too shy to go for a chlamydia check-up can now text for tests.
Liverpool NHS Provider Services and NHS Knowsley have created the service.
Mobile phone child safety guidelines 'to be dropped' - Daily Telegraph 1st September 2009
Using a mobile phone is no more harmful for children than taking a hot bath or exercising, according to a new government health leaflet.
Now it IS safe for your child to use a mobile: After years of warnings, official leaflet drops safety guidance - Daily Mail 1st September 2009
Plans to give the green light for children to use mobile phones despite cancer fears have angered health campaigners.
The draft of a new advisory leaflet for parents by the Department of Health removes safety advice to impose strict limits on youngsters' use of the handsets.
Flu hotline calls will cost Vodafone customers up to 20p a minute - The Times 24th July 2009
One of the four main mobile phone companies is charging people to call the swine flu hotline set up to help to diagnose symptoms for NHS patients in England.
Official estimates showed that more than 100,000 people became infected with the H1N1 virus last week. The spread of the virus threatens to generate a huge volume of calls from people urgently in need of advice.
Phone gadget to diagnose disease - BBC Health News 22nd July 2009
Researchers have developed an add-on to a mobile phone that can take detailed images and analyse them to diagnose diseases such as tuberculosis.
The CellScope works as a so-called fluorescence microscope that can identify the markers of disease.
Ur L8! Text messages will remind Wirral patients of GP appointments - Wirral Globe 1st July 2009
Patients of GP practices in Wirral are receiving appointment reminders and health information to their mobiles phones by text message.
NHS Wirral has funded surgeries to launch and operate a patient care messaging service, which can reduce the number of people who do not turn up to their appointments.
On sale soon: The mobile aimed at four-year-olds - Daily Mail 24th June 2009
A mobile phone designed for children as young as four is to be sold in Britain.
The brightly coloured Firefly handset has just five buttons - including two which call Mum and Dad directly.
Details of the phone, which looks like a toy, came as it emerged that more than half of under-tens now own a mobile
Doctors warn of 'mobile phone elbow' - The Telegraph 4th June 2009
First there was a risk of repetitive strain injury from texting, and now doctors have warned that chatting for extended periods of time can leave you with a new ailment – mobile phone elbow.
Mobile phone elbow: Chatting for too long could 'stress out a nerve' - and leave you in agonising pain - Daily Mail 4th June 2009
They have been blamed for damaging hearing and exposing users to harmful radiation.
Now those who just can't stop chatting into their handsets are facing a new menace - mobile phone elbow.
Mobile phone chip that diagnoses disease on the spot 'available in five years' - Daily Mail 28th May 2009
A mobile phone chip which can diagnose medical conditions on the spot will be available in five years, it was predicted today.
Experts are on the verge of perfecting a tiny microchip that reads swabs or blood tests and slots into a mobile phone, so it can be sent to your doctor.
Mobile phones to be banned in French primary schools to limit health risks - The Times 26th May 2009
Mobile telephones are to be banned from French primary schools and operators must offer handsets that allow only text messages under new government measures to limit the health risk for children.
Text message system revolutionises medical care in Malawi - The Guardian 27th March 2009
A simple SMS system is revolutionising medical care in Malawi, where scarce resources and a skeleton hospital staff must serve thousands of people spread over hundred of square miles
Oxford pupils to text school nurse for morning-after pill - The Times 25th March 2009
Schoolgirls will be able to request the morning-after pill by text message to their school nurse as part of a scheme being introduced this year.
Six schools in Oxfordshire are to take part in the project after a rise in the number of teenage pregnancies in the county.
Schoolgirls as young as 11 to ask for morning-after-pill by text - The Telegraph 24th March 2009
Schoolgirls as young as 11 will be able to ask for the morning-after-pill via text message so they are not "embarrassed" into admitting they are having sex.
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