Cellphones excite brain

Italian researchers have found that electromagnetic impulses from cellphones excite the brain on the side shared by the phone, reports TMC Net.

Paolo Maria Rossini, a neurologist and research director at Fatebenefratelli Hospital in Rome, and his colleagues tested 15 young men. They used helmets that held cellphones about two inches from the subjects` ears.

After the cellphones were turned on for 45 minutes, the men`s brains showed increased electrical activity on the side the phone was on. The increase was not measurable on the other side, or when the phone had been turned off.

Cellphone giveaways are to be used to encourage more young people to give up smoking, News Wire reports.

The Australian Health Research Council has allocated $1.5 million to Auckland University researchers to design a stop-smoking programme of video and text messaging aimed at 18 to 24 year olds.

Up to 1 300 young people will be recruited to take part in the programme, with 200 getting a free upgrade to a video phone. They will be sent video logs from people who have quit smoking, along with games and text messaging.

Zambian vice president, Lupando Mwape, has called on Zambians to utilise technology to effectively manage and improve sectors such as health and meteorology, reports All Africa. He said the use of technological advancement such as telemedicine could be used to minimise the effects of human resource inadequacy.

Speaking at the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) workshop in Lusaka, Mwape said Zambia had made tremendous endeavours to incorporate science and technology in general, and the GNSS in particular, in its national socio-economic development plan.

Globally, GNSS had been used in a wide rage of sectors such as agriculture, health, aviation, land and water transport, meteorology, mineral and science management, disaster warning and emergency.