Ever been in a room with regular fluorescent lighting? That's all the CFLs are. There's substantially less harmful chemicals in a dozen CFLs than in one 36w flouro tube and the most significant risk when you break one of those is from the broken glass. That's it.
From the BBC article (the only one with any credibility):
If you broke five bulbs in a small unventilated room then you might be in short term danger
Dr David Ray, toxicologist

Five bulbs, all at once, in a small unventilated room might present a short term danger. Since very few people are in the habit of sealing themselves in the crapper and breaking bunches of CFLs I can't see any significant threat to 99.999999999% of the population.

As for the radiation levels, WHAT A CROCK OF BOLLOCKS! You get hundreds of times more UV exposure just walking out into the sun light (which you NEED to do to PREVENT you from getting sick from lack of vitamin D ) than you do sitting for hours on end under a CFL.

If these studies (a junk media article is not a study, btw) had any credibility, shouldn't the majority of the office workers in the entire western world, all of whom spend their entire working day under this exact same fluorescent technology, year after year, be direly ill? What's that? They're not? Funny that.