The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will launch a study on cellphone radiation, a department spokesman said on Thursday, building on Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr\u2019s criticism linking them to neurological damage and cancer.<\/p>\n
Last year, the department said 22 states had restricted cellphone use in schools to improve the mental and physical health of children under the \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d movement.<\/p>\n
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration also took down old webpages saying cellphones are not dangerous.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe FDA removed webpages with old conclusions about cell phone radiation while HHS undertakes a study on electromagnetic radiation and health research to identify gaps in knowledge, including on new technologies, to ensure safety and efficacy,\u201d said HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe study was directed by President Trump\u2019s MAHA Commission in its strategy report,\u201d Nixon added.<\/p>\n
However, some webpages of agencies such as the FDA<\/a> and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <\/a>continue to say that to date there is no credible evidence pointing to health problems from cellphone radiation.<\/p>\n The National Cancer Institute, under the National Institutes of Health, says \u201cevidence to date suggests that cellphone use does not cause brain or other kinds of cancer in humans.\u201d<\/p>\n The Wall Street Journal first reported on the HHS study on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will launch a study on cellphone radiation, a department spokesman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-248205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}