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  • Brain tumour controversy

    Why is it that the Interphone and Orebro University studies on mobile phones and brain tumours have found different results? In a new paper, Dr Lennart Hardell from Orebro University in Sweden explains that the findings are not so different after all. Hardell’s team has conducted a reanalysis of the data in their previous research, applying the criteria used by the Interphone project.
    Posted in brain tumours, Hardell, mobile phones, wireless radiation

  • Copenhagen Resolution

    A considerable lowering of guidelines and exposure to wireless microwave radiation, to a biologically-based precautionary level, with a peak-level maximum of 0.6 V/m as recommended by the BioInitiative report. Information and official warnings for the general public, regarding the health risks from wireless microwave radiation – with emphasis on increased risks for pregnant women and children.
    Posted in children, EHS, precaution, radiation standards, wireless radiation

  • European Parliament on mobile phones

    The European Parliament has called for stricter standards to protect public health from mobile communications. The European Parliament has acknowledged the risks of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from communications technology and called for stricter safety limits. In its mid-term review of the European Environment and Health Action Plan 2004-2010, members of Parliament- voted 522 to 16 to endorse a set of precautionary recommendations on 4 September. 
    Posted in design, EHS, EU, European Parliament, precaution, radiation standards, wireless radiation

  • Alzheimer's Disease and Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields

    A review of published research suggests that occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields may lead to Alzheimer’s Disease. A Garcia and colleagues from Spain’s University of Valencia reviewed 14 studies on Alzheimer’s Disease and electromagnetic fields. They found that the case-control studies showed that exposed workers had more than double the risk of the disease, whereas cohort studies found 1.6 times the risk, with double the risk for exposed men.

    Posted in Alzheimer's Disease, EMF, wireless radiation

  • EMR, sleep and diabetes

    For more than a decade there’s been convincing evidence that exposure to electromagnetic radiation changes brain wave patterns during sleep. Now there’s evidence that such changes can be linked to diabetes. A study published in the January issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science in the US has found that depression of slow-wave sleep affects insulin production and increases risk of diabetes.
    Posted in blood sugar, diabetes, EMF, magnetic fields, sleep, wireless radiation

  • Doctors warn about health risks

    Eleven Canadian doctors have petitioned Norfolk County Council regarding the dangers of mobile phone towers. In a letter to the Mayor dated 2 April, the doctors urged the council to press for the relocation of a phone tower situated near a primary school. “There is an increasing body of evidence linking the Radio Frequency Radiation emitted from cell phone towers to serious health effects including cancers and childhood leukemia. 
    Posted in Canada, cancer, childhood leukemia, phone tower, wireless radiation

  • Cordless phone recommendations

    A German government agency has issued a warning about the use of cordless (DECT) phones. According to current scientific knowledge nationally and internationally, there are indications for biological effects of high frequency electromagnetic fields which are the means of transmission for DECT phones”, said the Federal Agency for Radiation Protection (BfS) in a press release of 31 January.
    Posted in cordless phones, DECT, precautions, wireless radiation

  • Wireless and sleep problems

    Radiofrequency radiation affected sleep quality in an exposed population, according to a new study from Switzerland. T Abelin and colleagues conducted two surveys on the population surrounding the Swiss radiotransmitter at Schwarzenburg when it was both operational and not operational. Information for the study came from surveys of 400 adults living near the transmitter and 2621 measurements of magnetic fields in 56 locations.
    Posted in mobile phone tower, sleep, wireless radiation

  • Towers and sensitive areas

    Also on 12 August, the Democrats called on the Senate to empower the ACA to “reject mobile phone towers being build near community sensitive sites such as hospitals, schools and residential areas.” Senator John Cherry, the party’s Communications spokesperson, referred to the ongoing legal action at Oatley. “It should not take three court cases and a loophole in the Telecommunications Act for a local authority to be able to defend the right of a community, to prevent a mobile phone tower
    Posted in phone towers, precaution, sensitive areas, wireless radiation

  • Vatican radio transmitter

    Has the Vatican discovered a unique way of bringing people to God? Dozens of its radio transmitters, which transmit religious messages around the world in 35 languages, are situated in Cesano, a village north of Rome, and emit levels of radiation beyond those allowed by Italian standards. Locals claim that transmissions have interfered with phone calls, TV sets and doorbells and some say they can even hear the transmissions over their phones. 
    Posted in Vatican radio transmitter, wireless radiation

  • Athermal effects of EMR - Dr Sianette Kwee

    The following information is from a presentation by Dr Sianne Kwee, Effects of Microwave Fields from Mobile Phones on Cell Growth to the European Parliament, 29.6.00. Dr Kwee and her colleagues in Denmark conducted a series of experiments designed to show how EMR affects cell tissue cultures and their DNA replication. The researchers cultivated human cells in an EMR-free environment then exposed them to EMR, before returning them to a field-free zone for 24 hours.
    Posted in athermal effects, heat-shock proteins, magnetic fields, mobile phones, Sianette Kwee, signal transduction, wireless radiation

  • AThermal effects of EMR - Dr Helen Irvine

    The following information is an exerpt from a talk on Scientific and health aspects of cellular phones and the masts by Dr Helen Irvine at the National Society of UK for Clean Air and Environment in February this year. Dr Irvine is a consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Greater Glasgow Health Board and an honorary senior lecturer in Public Health Medicine at the University of Glasgow.
    Posted in athermal effects, behaviour, blood-brain barrier, calcium ion effluc, cell proliferation, EMF, Helen Irvine, melatonin, sleep, wireless radiation