| Ever since mobile phones became a popular | | | | use mobile phones over a prolonged period of time. |
| commodity in the 1980's, there has been a rising | | | | This time period will range anywhere from ten to thirty |
| concern over the radiation that the phones give off. | | | | years. The goal of the study is to track the long term |
| More specifically, cancer advocate groups, the | | | | effects and damages of cell phone use (if any). Those |
| government, media and the public have been | | | | who participate in the study will also have their |
| concerned that the radiation that mobile phones give | | | | behaviors tracked over that certain time period as well. |
| off, could possibly be causing cancer and other | | | | This gives the researchers the ability to try and keep |
| illnesses in the humans that use them. | | | | tabs on whether or not the participant is suffering any |
| While there have been theories, guesses and a few | | | | neurological side effects from using the mobile phone. |
| short lived studies, there has not been a definitive | | | | This is quite different from previous short term studies, |
| study that has addressed the concerns over radiation | | | | as most of them have only tracked the radiation levels. |
| from cell phones. Last month however, this all changed | | | | Due to this study and the national and international |
| when a study called the Cohort Study on Mobile | | | | attention that it is getting, there has been an increase in |
| Communications began. The study is also known as | | | | searches on the Internet for mobile phone radiation and |
| "COSMOS" for short. The study aims to do something | | | | the neurological side effects of cell phone usage. This |
| that other cell phone radiation studies have failed to do | | | | proves that the health concerns over cell phone usage |
| over the last couple of decades. | | | | is not going to be going away. There is a niche in cell |
| The COSMOS study is going to observe people who | | | | phone radiation and people are keeping an eye on it. |