Handygo, Uninor launches Wellness World

Uninor subscribers can get up to date information regarding heart care, women's health, diet and nutrition, HIV/STDs, pain management, sexual health, stress, love, relationship and adolescent issues.

Handygo Technologies, a provider of VAS solutions, and Uninor announced the launch of 'Wellness World', a unique health tool for Indian customers. 

Available on both IVR (Interactive Voice Response) and SMS platforms, it aims to provide daily information to Uninor's subscribers on health related issues. The subscribers can get up to date information regarding heart care, women's health, diet and nutrition, HIV/STDs, pain management, sexual health, stress, love, relationship and adolescent issues. 

Mobile phones pose health risk: Survey

A report of Council of Europe claims that electromagnetic radiation emitted by wireless devices can cause cancer, and can affect the developing brain.

There is no clarity on whether mobile phones and networks pose health risks, but if the report of the Council of Europe is to be believed, mobile phones have "potentially harmful" effects on humans.

The council has warned of "extremely high human and economic costs of inaction if early warnings are neglected". Although it has not been able to pin point the ill effects, it has claimed that the move is needed in view of "the precautionary principle should be applicable when scientific evaluation does not allow the risk to be determined with sufficient certainty."

The council has also recommended that the threshold values of emissions of electromagnetic fields of all types and frequencies should meet the ALARA or "As Low As Reasonably Achievable" (which is the amount of radiation prescribed for medical treatments that use electromagnetic radiation).