Tag: WORLDHEALTHORGANIZATION

Share Despite claims from the World Health Organization that "One of the greatest threats to international health security arises from outbreaks of emerging and epidemic prone diseases," the organization continues to focus on puritanical assaults against personal choice. Apparently afraid of outbreaks of online fun and epidemics of Facebook frivolity, the WHO has reportedly mounted a wholesale ...

The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (or IARC) planned to release a study later today that was supposed to end the debate over the health risks of cell phone usage. Some media outlets broke the news before the afternoon embargo and published articles alternately declaring the study the ultimate proof that cell phones cause cancer or proclaiming the IARC ...

Cell phones cause cancer, don't cause cancer, might cause cancer, who knows? Well, Maine State Legislator Andrea Boland at least claims to know. She plans to introduce a bill in the upcoming legislative session that would require phones to carry warnings saying that they can cause brain cancer. Apparently unconcerned with things like scientific consensus, Boland wants Maine to become the first in ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is stirring up a storm by claiming it will release a study later this year that links cell phone use to an increased risk of brain and salivary gland tumors. The decade-long study claims to have found a definite link, though it stops short of inferring direct causation. The press release, however, does state that using a mobile phone for a decade or more ...

As it turns out, the World Health Organization (WHO) isn't condoning e-cigarette products -- shockingly -- as some manufacturers might like you to believe. In fact, the lawsuit flag is being waved at a few companies who brazenly plastered the organization's name and logo across promotional material, suggesting an endorsement of the product. The WHO's Douglas Bettcher asserts that the product is ...