Neurosurgeon clarifies that AirPods do not increase brain cancer risk, highlighting that Bluetooth signals are significantly weaker than those from cell phones.

The connection between diet and brain health extends beyond cognitive function to include serious concerns about tumor development and progression. While brain tumors have complex causes involving ...

Robert F. Kennedy, the secretary of Health and Human Services, still believes that cell phones are causing brain cancer, as revealed in a congressional hearing in January. Most studies on this ...

Keeping your phone next to your head while sleeping may not cause cancer, doctors say, but it can disrupt sleep through blue ...

Using your phone for 15 hours a month over five years doesn’t sound like much, but that’s the amount of time scientists say can increase your risk of developing certain types of brain cancers. Despite ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Many Americans take a dark view of nicotine ...

Ever since we started holding our cell phones up to our ears, there have been concerns that the radio waves they emit could cause cancer. While this makes sense in a Black Mirror kind of way—and some ...

Researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy have made a breakthrough that could ...

Oligodendroglioma is a rare type of brain tumor. It’s in a category of brain and spinal cord tumors called gliomas. These are brain or spinal cord tumors that come from abnormal glial cells, the ...