UK News 14-01-2005 who: National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) what: Urges parents not to give mobile `phones to under-eights when: Monday snippet: "If there are risks - and we think there may be risks - then the people who are going to be most affected are children," says Prof Sir William Stewart, chairman of the (NRPB), quoted in The Telegraph, "and the younger the child, the greater the danger." Elsewhere in health news, Tuesday`s Times reported that the secret of women`s longevity is the strength of their heart. Research at Liverpool John Moores University has shown that the pumping power of a man`s heart can fall to a quarter of its peak performance by the time he reaches 70, while a woman`s heart remains just as strong. And in Thursday`s Independent, social affairs correspondent Maxine Frith reported that a chronic shortages of midwives has led to women in labour feeling "terrified, alone and in pain," according to a survey of 3,000 new mothers. [... more]

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