Dell is already fighting AIDS with their (PRODUCT) RED line of products. And now it will fight cancer too which a future line of pink products. Dell and Susan G. Komen for the Cure have announced a partnership according to which Dell will donate $5 for every new Promise Pink laptopit sells. And Dell has various laptops already available in pink. Dell promised to raise at least $250,000 through the program which means it plans to sell at least 50,000 pink laptops.

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A recent study published in the online Journal of the National Cancer Institute concludes that talking on your cell phone does not increase your chances of getting melanoma of the eye.  The study, which compared the cell phone use of 459 melanoma patients with 459 people without melanoma overturned an earlier study which used only 118 patients can came to the opposite conclusion.

Even though no hard evidence has emerged linking the cellular changes that cause cancer to cell phone use, major studies continue to be funded. Many of these studies produce conflicting information. The most recent study adds another check to the ‘safe’ column.  In the article, the researchers write, “In conclusion, we observed no overall increased risk of uveal melanoma among regular mobile phone users or users of radio sets in Germany, where digital mobile phone technology was introduced in the early 1990s.”

Here’s a question I encountered one too many times. Is any form of cancer related to the use of cell phones? We’re about to find out soon. Interphone researchers have a large study to fully analyze. They are studying 6,400 tumors in patients from 13 countries. Early next year we will find out the results but we have a hint to what the study will say.

So here are some sneak peaks while we wait the final results. Regular cell phones users have a 50% more likely chance to get brain tumors than non-users. Are there any non-users? UK and Scandinavian cell phone users have a 40% greater tumor risk in people that have used the phones for 10 years than those that haven’t gotten that far. I’ve used mine for less than 10 but I am sure I’ll use cell phones for a lot of years to come no matter what the results will be!

via Gizmodo