Note in the below media release where it is claimed that “Detailed EMR measurements were carried out using new equipment to give a better idea of exposures in multiple locations in classrooms and offices over a period of time”. As I have previously pointed out some time ago the Department of Health and Community Services
Read more →Following on from the last message I have found that even the 3 fold limit increase in the proposed Australian ELF exposure standard is not enough to cover MRI operators and service technicians working with the high power machines. This means that the proposed 15,000mG occupational limit is still not enough. So, the question now
Read more →Previously on this list I have mentioned the proposed three-fold increase in Australia’s powerfrequency exposure standards by a working group from the Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA). I have also suggested that this increase (3,000mG residential and 15,000mG occupational) is due to lobbying from the MRI industry / users who are concerned
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: A Chinese team has made a breakthrough in explaining how power-line EMFs promote childhood leukemia. We don’t often talk about breakthroughs when we write about EMFs, but this time it’s justified. Read all about it at: http://www.microwavenews.com/XRCC1.html Best, Louis Slesin __________________________________________________________ Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on
Read more →ABC News: The Health Department is retesting radiation levels at a school on Hobart’s eastern shore. Posted December 8, 2008 20:30:00 Updated December 8, 2008 21:03:00 The testing is being done as part of an investigation into a possible cancer cluster among staff at the Hazelwood school for children with special needs. Staff have been
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: It’s not just childhood leukemia anymore. Alzheimer’s Disease is poised to take center stage in the long-simmering EMF-health controversy. A couple of weeks ago, a group led by Martin Röösli at Switzerland’s University of Bern reported that people living within 50 meters of a high-voltage power line were more likely
Read more →From EMR Australia: Dear All EMR may be contributing to serious health problems, including cancer and diabetes, by impacting on the body’s energy metabolising processes. In the September issue of “EMR and Health” we look at new evidence for the link between EMR and diabetes and how EMR may be contributing to a global increase
Read more →The following is from Sunday’s local newspaper article about the cancer scare at Hazelwood school. http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,24194383-3462,00.html Cancer-cluster school mission DAMIEN BROWN August 17, 2008 12:00am EDUCATION and Health Department officials are to meet staff from a Hobart school at the centre of a cancer cluster scare. Premier David Bartlett said the department would speak to
Read more →Commentary from Don Maisch: ICNIRP states about it’s forthcoming “15 Years On: Reviewing The Past And Looking Forward” workshop (last message) that: “Social impact on radiation protection philosophies is increasing and there seems to be a need to reconsider basic principles for standard setting in comparison with other environmental risk factors such as ionising radiation.
Read more →Meeting notice from ICNIRP: ICNIRP “15 Years On: Reviewing The Past And Looking Forward” Dear Sir/Madam, “15 Years On: Reviewing The Past And Looking Forward”* ICNIRP Workshop On Basic Radiation Protection Principles, 15-16 September 2008, Prague, Czech Republic The International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) will be holding a Workshop “15 years on: Reviewing
Read more →Hot off the press. Please distribute it to those who might be interested. -Magda Havas Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine, 27: 135″”146, 2008 Dirty Electricity Elevates Blood Sugar Among Electrically Sensitive Diabetics and May Explain Brittle Diabetes MAGDA HAVAS Environmental & Resource Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, mhavas@trentu.ca Abstract Transient electromagnetic fields (dirty electricity), in
Read more →From Microwave News: Exposures to ambient magnetic fields may affect the quality of human sperm and may well explain its well-documented decline over the last few decades, according to a new study by De-Kun Li, an epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, CA. Li has also shown that how the dose of a magnetic field
Read more →The following article I find particularly interesting as a local Hobart school, located near transmission lines and with a substation in the basement had to close down its swimming pool because people were receiving shocks when entering the water. Don ********************************************************************************** From Joanne Mueller: Elm Creek Park bike-pedestrian bridge closed due to close proximity to
Read more →Incubators may be linked to higher risk of cot death Electrical currents given off by the life-saving machines shown to have a negative effect on babies’ heart rates, new research shows http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/ incubators-may-be-linked-to-higher-risk-of-cot-death-825917.html By Geoffrey Lean Sunday, 11 May 2008 Life-saving incubators may cause babies to die later from cot death, startling new research suggests.
Read more →Note in the below article where Minister Schwarten states that “magnetic field measurements conducted in 1999 had shown that levels in the office were well below recognised guidelines”. Thus the ignorance and deception continues with the authorities continuing to quote irrelevant guidelines as somehow protecting against cancer – even though those exposures (1000mG home/5,000mG occupational)
Read more →From Martin Weatherall: Incubator electromagnetic fields alter newborns’ heart rates http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/bmj-ief043008.php The electromagnetic fields produced by incubators alter newborns” heart rates, reveals a small study published ahead of print in the Fetal and Neonatal Edition of Archives of Disease in Childhood. It is not clear what the long term effects might be, but this could
Read more →The following article about a recent survey by the French “Centre for Research and Information on Independent Electromagnetic Radiation” (Criirem) supports earlier research conducted by Professor Eric Hachulla et al in the late 1990s on people living apparently near the same twin transmission lines later surveyed by Criiem. The importance of Hachulla’s research, however, is
Read more →http://newsblaze.com/story/20080322103852tsop.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html Electrocution of America: Is Your Utility Company Out to Kill You? Is electrical pollution slowly deteriorating the health of people across the country? It is a silent killer-invisible, odorless and tasteless-which makes it the perfect pollutant. That question is in the back of the mind of Russ Allen, a Wisconsin native and author of
Read more →From Powerwatch news, 29 Feb. 2008:Summary: Professors Mike O’Carroll and Denis Henshaw have now published their paper looking at aggregated statistical associations on the evidence of health effects from extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields. We briefly covered some of the key statistical points of their paper in the table on our news story about the
Read more →From B. Blake Levitt: All, After 13 years of publishing my first book on the subject of EMFs, “Electromagnetic Fields, A Consumer’s Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves” (Harcourt Brace, 1995), they decided to let it go out of print in late ’07 when Macmillan bought the company. People tell me that’s
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