Radios and retinas

Since mobile phones have been around there has been public concern about their safety - fears over radiation exposure causing cancer have been particularly trenchant. This week Paul Elliott and his colleagues published research looking for an increase in the incidence of childhood cancers around mobile phone base stations. Paul joins us in the studio. NCEPOD (the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death) have published a report on parenteral nutrition. Kayte McCann talks to gastroenterologist Jim Stewart about the findings. Finally, bevacizumab (traded as Avastin) has been used for off-label treatment of age related macular degeneration for some time. The BMJ published research looking at the effectiveness of this monoclonal antibody compared with what was formerly the standard NHS treatment. Adnan Tufail, one of the study’s authors, joins us in the studio.