From Frans van Velden Comment to ‘Are some people sensitive to mobile phone signals?’ The article ‘Are some people sensitive to mobile phone signals?’ by Rubin c.s. was published recently in British Medical Journal (15 April 2006 in BMJ 2006;332:886-891, doi:10.1136/bmj.38765.519850.55) (to be found here: Frans van Velden MSc Rubin et al. define electromagnetic sensitivity
Read more →In the following article sent along by Sylvie, note the revealing statement at the end by the chief spokesperson from U.K.s Health Protection Agency (HPA), Michael Clarke. “If there was a chronic effect, it would only become apparent after 10 or 20 years and we’ve only had about 10 years of extensive use by large
Read more →Comments from Magda Havas on FDA finding the Hardell et al studies “hard to interpret”(Message #431) : Don, I don’t understand what is so difficult to interpret. Hardell and colleagues had two mobile phone studies published this year. One dealt with benign tumours and the other with malignant tumours as follows: Hardell et al. 2006a.
Read more →From Louis Slesin: FDA press release April 6, 2006 Use of Wireless Communication Devices and the Risk of Brain Cancer The FDA received numerous media inquires about a recently published paper (Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk for malignant brain tumors diagnosed in 1997-2003 by
Read more →From Karl Polzer: I found the wording of this story amazing. This is from a publication that is read and purchased largely by the wireless industry “” not to environmental activists. The writer, Jeff Silva, reports on the Hardell team”™s latest published study finding an increased risk in malignant brain tumors and notes that the
Read more →Study: Tumor Risk from Cell Phones http://www.betanews.com/article/Study_Tumor_Risk_from_Cell_Phones/1143823783 By Nate Mook, BetaNews March 31, 2006, 11:49 AM Researchers at the Swedish National Institute for Working Life issued a report this week disputing two earlier studies that claimed cell phone use has no correlation to increased brain tumor risk. The Swedish study found that long-term mobile phone
Read more →From Iris Atzmon: Swedish researchers find link between cell phones and brain tumors 3/31/2006 12:02:08 PM, by Nate Anderson http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060331-6502.html Be afraid. Be very afraid. That’s the message from the Swedish National Institute for Working Life, which has just completed a massive study on the cancer risks from cell phone use. Their results, which appear
Read more →http://www.mastsanity.org/media/49media-angergrows-0306.htm Mast Sanity press release “” 1st March 2006 Anger Grows as the health of the nation is threatened and freedom of information denied as OFCOM, DTI and ODPM hide behind a wall of conspiracy, misinformation and lies. STOP PRESS “” 2 March 2006 The ODPM have released the ARUP today The ODPM, in collusion
Read more →Following are a series of questions Eileen O’Connor put to Lloyd Morgan, Director of the Central Brain Tumour Registry of the United States following his recent presentation on Wireless Phones and Brain Tumours . Lloyd’s answers are in italics. Dear Eileen, I would like to answer some of your questions. First, let me direct you
Read more →Message from Lloyd Morgan: Dear All The other day I gave a presentation, “From X-rays to Cordless Phones, Radiation Causes Brain Tumors,” on a conference system being evaluated by The Brain Trust (www.braintrust.org). If you would like to hear this presentation go to < http ://breeze14246184.breezecentral.com/p26758736/ > The recording will be taken off sometime on
Read more →Science communication in the UK hits a low note Commentary By Don Maisch March 6, 2006 Concerned over how controversial science issues are being communicated to the public in the British media, the Social Issues Research Centre (SIRC) and the Royal Institution of Great Britain , under the Directorship of Baroness Susan Greenfield (who is
Read more →From Iris Atzmon in Israel: 5.5 million mobile phones are owned by children in Britain According to the UCLA School of Public Health, Leeka Khefiets received $50,000 from EPRI for her work on the WHO workshop on EMF risks to children. See: http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#LKepi Cell phones are safe and children need take no special precautions””unless they
Read more →Lloyd Morgan has sent his commentary on the Hardell et al. “Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk of benign brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003;”INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 28: 509-518, 2006. Unfortunately this list does not allow me to send on the tables, etc but
Read more →From Tower Sanity Alliance: The Sydney Morning Herald, Feb. 11, 2006 Every move they make, mum’s watching By Louise Williams February 11, 2006 IT’S not quite Big Brother, more like Big Mother. Avalon lawyer Meredith Kelly doesn’t have a hope of getting to the school on time, but she knows exactly when her eight-year-old son,
Read more →Commentary, American Journal of Epidemiology: Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma (Interphone Study Group, Germany) Schuz et al., American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published January 27, 2006 This study, similar to all Interphone studies published to date, has several serious problems. For one, its core findings report no risk
Read more →Notice from Eileen O’Connor: Please find enclosed link to full report: http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_determinants/environment/EMF/pub_emf_en.htm I”™ve not had time to read the EU report in full, however it includes the Reflex project showing an image of cell damage, DNA strand breaks after 24hr continuous exposure to mobile phone radiation, similar cell damage appeared after the cell was exposed
Read more →From Iris Adzmon: When you read the new MWN article on the Interphone results, remember this: “It is worth noting that the definition of a “regular user” of a cell phone in all the Interphone studies is the use of a mobile phone on average once per week during at least six months.” Today, mobile
Read more →From Louis Slesin, editor of Microwave News: Dear Colleagues: On Friday afternoon, the American Journal of Epidemiology posted the results of the German Interphone study on its Web site. They point to a brain tumor risk after ten years of cell phone use. This finding is based on a small number of cases and is
Read more →NOTICE Please note that I have added two new sections to the EMFacts web site, both of which are mirrored from Stewart Fist’s site and have been done so with Stewart’s suggestion and assistance. 1) Electricwords: This consists of abstracts of recent scientific research into the biological safety of cellular mobile phones, radio signals in
Read more →From Frans van Velden: Here are the authors for the German Interphone study mentioned in the last message: Joachim Schüz, Eva Böhler, Gabriele Berg, Brigitte Schlehofer, Klaus Schlaefer, Iris Hettinger, Jürgen Wahrendorf, Katharina Kunna-Grass, Maria Blettner: Cellular phones, cordless phones, and the risk of glioma and meningioma (Interphone study group, Germany). American Journal of Epidemiology,
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