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To: Jenna who wrote (117317)	11/26/2000 11:59:24 PM
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UK Mobile Phones to Carry Health Warnings LONDON (Reuters) - All mobile phones in Britain will come with health warnings under new government guidelines to be rushed out ahead of Christmas, newspapers reported on Monday. The Department of Health is finalizing the wording on a leaflet which will distributed to shops selling mobile phones, the papers said. The leaflets were expected to specifically warn that children should not spend too long on their mobile phones, despite continuing debate among medical experts over the existence of any possible health risks to users. ``There are still fears that using mobile phones could have a harmful effect. We will produce advice for consumers shortly,'' a Department of Health spokesman told the Independent newspaper. More than 25 million people, nearly half Britain's population, own a mobile phone. A quarter of users are aged under 18 and that number is expected to rise further after Christmas. Scientists are split on whether there is irrefutable medical evidence that mobile phones cause brain tumors or other health problems. Last week the Lancet medical journal published two articles with opposing views on the safety of the phones. Physicist Dr Gerard Hyland from England's University of Warwick said mobile phone users under 18 were vulnerable to headaches, memory loss and sleeping disorders. He said there was too much uncertainty about the potential dangers of mobile phones for them to be classified as safe. But Massachusetts scientist Dr Kenneth Rothman said his research indicated the main public health concern was motor vehicle collisions rather than any possible link to brain cancer. Heavy mobile users were involved in twice as many fatal road accidents than light users. The articles came as the government launched a new task force to study the possible risks of mobile phones. A government-commissioned inquiry into potential risks said in May that children should be discouraged from using mobile phones but called for more research because of continuing uncertainty over potential health risks.