{"id":534640,"date":"2026-01-22T13:18:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/534640\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:18:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:18:15","slug":"cellphone-health-risks-are-focus-of-new-government-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/534640\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone health risks are focus of new government study"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching a study on whether radiation from cellphones could harm Americans\u2019 health<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FDA removed web pages with old conclusions about cellphone radiation while HHS undertakes a study on electromagnetic radiation and\u00a0health research\u00a0to identify gaps in knowledge, including on new technologies, to ensure safety and efficacy,\u201d HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said in a statement to Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

The study is part of a strategy report released last year by President\u00a0Donald Trump\u2019s MAHA Commission, Nixon added.<\/p>\n

The report urges officials to address electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure stemming from the widespread use of cellphones, Wi-Fi routers, cell towers and wearable, such as smartwatches.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the National Institutes of Health did a study concluding there is \u201cclear evidence\u201d that high exposure to radio frequency radiation (RFR) was associated with cancer in male rats.<\/p>\n

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching a study to determine whether cellphone radiation could harm Americans\u2019 health. Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cIn our studies, rats and mice received RFR across their whole bodies. By contrast, people are mostly exposed in specific local tissues close to where they hold the phone,\u201d said senior scientist John Bucher at the time.<\/p>\n

Bucher added, \u201cThe exposure levels and durations in our studies were greater than what people experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study did not investigate the RFR that is\u00a0used for Wi-Fi\u00a0or 5G networks.<\/p>\n

A general view of a bird flying near a cell phone antenna tower as seen from the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey on Aug. 30, 2020. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told\u00a0USA TODAY\u00a0on Friday that \u201celectromagnetic radiation is a major health concern,\u201d<\/a> adding that he is \u201cvery concerned about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for CTIA, the mobile carrier industry trade group, told Fox News Digital there is no credible evidence linking wireless devices to\u00a0health problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cRadiofrequency energy from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices, mobile phones and wireless infrastructure has not been shown to cause health problems, according to the consensus of the international scientific community and independent expert organizations around the world,\u201d said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0World Health Organization\u00a0has noted on its website that research shows \u201cno adverse health effect has been causally linked with exposure to wireless technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the US, cellphones must comply with\u00a0Federal Communications Commission\u00a0(FCC) limits on radiofrequency (RF) exposure.<\/p>\n

The FCC uses a metric called specific absorption rate (SAR), which tracks how much RF energy the body absorbs. <\/p>\n

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that \u201celectromagnetic radiation is a major health concern,\u201d adding that he is \u201cvery concerned about it.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n

To be sold in the US, mobile phones and similar wireless devices must be tested and certified to ensure that they do not exceed 1.6 W\/kg (watts per kilogram), averaging over 1 gram of tissue.<\/p>\n

The FCC states on its website that there is \u201cno scientific evidence currently establishing a definitive link between wireless device use\u00a0and cancer\u00a0or other illnesses.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the agency does share ways that Americans can reduce exposure \u2014 such as shortening the amount of time spent on wireless devices, putting a phone on speaker or using an earpiece \u201cto reduce proximity to the head and thus head exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FCC also recommends increasing the distance between wireless devices and the body, and texting instead of talking when possible.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to HHS and NIH for additional comment, as well as several major cellphone carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is launching a study on whether radiation from cellphones could…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":534641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[17441,210,30923,611,881,1183,15010,16978,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-534640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-cell-phones","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-and-human-services","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-public-health","13":"tag-research","14":"tag-robert-f-kennedy-jr","15":"tag-study-says","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115938951641516815","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}