The UK Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme’s report has revealed that mobile phones have no harmful effects on human health or biology.

According to the report, the majority of available evidences relate to short term use, and further research is needed before one can be certain of longer term effects.

The MTHR Programme, established in 2001, with budget of 8.8 million pounds, comprises 28 research projects based at UK universities. A committee of independent experts, mostly from senior university academics, manages MTHR. Professor Lawrie Challis, OBE, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Nottingham University is its chairman.

Challis said, “This is a very substantial report from a large research programme. The work reported today has all been published in respected peer-reviewed scientific or medical journals. The results are so far reassuring but there is still a need for more research, especially to check that no effects emerge from longer term phone use from adults and from use by children.”

Accroding to the findings of MTHR Programme, there is no link between short term mobile phone use and brain cancer. The Programme included the largest and most robust research studies on the electrical hypersensitivity and mobile phone use in the world. There is no evidence of the unpleasant symptoms reported by people with electrical hypersensitivity caused by exposure to signals from mobile phones or base stations. No such evidence is found that mobile phones alter cells and tissue apart from heating them.

More research into the long term effects of mobile phones on adults and children is recommended by the MTHR committee.