Health Minister Roberto Speranza
said Wednesday that the government was sticking by the opinion
of the World Health Organization and Italy's Higher Health
Institute (ISS), according to which there is no proof of a link
between cancer and mobile-phone use.
He was commenting after a Turin court said in a ruling that
cell-phone use can cause tumours in the head.
"Sentences should always be respected in every case," said
Speranza on the fringes of the opening of a new pediatric
oncology department at Rome's Gemelli hospital.
"As for subjects of a scientific nature, I consider myself
bound to what the most prestigious international institutes say,
starting from the World Health Organization and, in Italy, the
Higher Health Institute".
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