Saturday, June 04, 2005

Study Links Power Lines, Childhood Leukemia

News reports (Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Reuters) say a new case-control study in the British Medical Journal has found a statistical association between childhood leukemia and residence near high-power lines among a population residing in England and Wales. The authors caution that the relationship may not be causal. Effect Measure has more.

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