It's good to talk. Honestly

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Recent controversy over the possible health impact of mobile phones has served to highlight the way in which scientific research into widely-used objects can be taken up by the media and converted into a scare story, with significant repercussions. Latest research indicates that using mobile phones does not cause memory loss, while the microwave radiation they emit appears to shorten the time required to undertake basic menial tasks. In some cases, journalists are responsible for scare stories, while in other cases scare stories emerge because scientists are divided and confuse those they are supposed to be advising.

Product information, Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Cellular Mobile Tel Equip, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, Column

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Was Aids transferred from chimps to humans by tainted polio vaccine?

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Author, Edward Hooper, claims that chimpanzee tissue was used to culture polio virus to make vaccine in Africa in the 1950s, and that this led to the transfer of HIV to humans. Hooper has investigated work at an animal research camp in former Belgian Congo, the country where the earliest case of HIV has been confirmed. The Wistar Institute, which was involved in vaccine production, denies this claim, arguing that Asian monkeys were used, not chimps. It was also argued that a sailor had died with HIV infection prior to the vaccine trials, but this has since been proved incorrect.

Africa, Research, HIV (Viruses), HIV, Vaccines industry, Biological products industry, Vaccines, Wistar Institute

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Surgeons separate conjoined twins after 16-hour operation

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Eman and Sanchia Mowatt, conjoined twins born in Sep 2001 in Birmingham, England, have been successfully separated. They were joined at the spine, but had separate circulations.

Health care industry, Surgery, Conjoined twins

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