Sent by R. Reidlinger, and I. Atzmon Taken from FEB Sweden July 2 1998 BLINDING PHONES? Aftonbladet (evening newspaper) reports that two men, one Anders Olsson aged 38, and another Krister Nyberg, both fom the northern town of Sundsvall in Sweden, became blind in the eye positioned closest to the cell phone. Both have used
Read more →From Olle Johansson: Dear All, Please, find some interesting reading: Mobile phones can trigger eye damage, fear scientists http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/08/07/nmob07.xml&sSheet=/n ews/2005/08/07/ixhome.html (Text reproduced below) Best regards Yours Olle (Olle Johansson, assoc. prof. The Experimental Dermatology Unit Department of Neuroscience Karolinska Institute 171 77 Stockholm Sweden) Mobile phones can trigger eye damage, fear scientists By Peter Zimonjic
Read more →Mobile phones can affect sleeping brains – but what’s it mean? October 12, 2005 – 4:27PM Mobile phone use can affect a person’s brainwaves even when the handset is switched off and the user is asleep, Australian research suggests, admitting they don’t know what that means. Neuroscientist Sarah Loughran studied the brainwave patterns of 50
Read more →The following letter-to-the-editor was published in late September of this year in the St George-Sutherland Shire Leader, apparently the community newspaper with the bigest coverage in Sydney. It is about the forthcoming government sell of of the remainder of Telstra and Anne makes a very important point. Telstra did not respond to it for obvious
Read more →Here’s an excellent article from the Haaretz newspaper in Israel on how the WHO Cell phone cancer link was misreported. By Tamara Traubman http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/631007.html The world’s approximately 1 billion cellular telephone users received good news at the end of August: new research showed the devices did not increase the chance of cancer, even among those
Read more →From Eileen O”™Connor and others: Court victory is a first for cell-phone programmers http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-otumor02oct02,0,3048495,print.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines By Nancy McVicar Health Writer October 2, 2005 Sharesa Price thought it was just another in a series of sinus infections. Her head and eyes hurt, and she was vomiting. But then Price had a seizure, and a brain scan found
Read more →From Sylvie http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/health/sfl-rxcell02oct02,0,5528254.story?page=3&track=mostemailedlink Officials at odds over the long-term effects of cell phone use By Nancy McVicar Health Writer Posted October 2 2005 Cell phones now come in child-sized versions, some inpink for girls, some with cartoon themes designed toappeal to boys and girls alike. But before you buy a wireless phone for your child’s
Read more →Dear Colleagues: Chinese scientists have joined the growing number of researchers who have found that relatively low-power RF radiation can lead to DNA breaks. Check out the latest posting on the Microwave News Web site. Go to: http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#chinadna Best, Louis Slesin P.S. Access to all the information on our Web site is freely available to
Read more →Hutchison in the UK shows how low the industry will stoop in order to destroy those who oppose them. And forget about the British legal system which only listens to industry pseudo-science and not what is happening to its citizens. What will they dream up next? Sue people for even daring to claim that 3G
Read more →Some of my previous messages sent by Lloyd Morgan who is the Director of the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States gave the mistaken impression that his comments represented the opinions of the Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States. This was my error as all messages from Lloyd Morgan were his
Read more →Please note that a message from Lloyd Morgan has been posted to this list. He is replying to message #202, adding to the comments from Power Watch on the acoustic neuroma study and makes some very important observations. I have not sent it out via e-mail because of highlighted comments from Mr. Lloyd that would
Read more →Dear EMFacts community, Please see my various comments within the text below (in bold itallics). Best regards to all, Lloyd Morgan Director, Central Brain Tumor Registry of the United States [For identification purposes only. All statements are mine and mine alone and do not represent positions or opinions if the Central Brain Tumor registry of
Read more →Notice from Tower Sanity (Australia): Concerned citizens According to Telstra’s Annual Report 2004, Innovation Everywhere (on pages 12 -13 (soft copy)/pages 10-11 (hard copy) under the heading Risk Factors) http://www.telstra.com.au/abouttelstra/investor/docs/companyoverview.pdf : “The establishment of a link between adverse health effects and electromagnetic energy (EME) could expose us to liability or negatively affect our operations The
Read more →The analysis by PowerWatch, http://www.powerwatch.org.uk : British Journal of Cancer advance online publication 30 August 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602764. Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries The media widely and incorrectly reported that the largest ever study into mobile phone use and brain cancer showed
Read more →Following the last message on the mis-reporting of cell phone research by “Spiked” I was send a few links to follow up on about the journalistic credentials and foundations of this group. A visit to gmwatch and a search of ‘Spiked’ there, provides interesting detail of the names and faces, as well as their agenda
Read more →It did not take long for the spin merchants to come out proclaiming that the latest Interphone study ( see message # 194 ) proves mobiles are safe. Following is an inventive article from Jennie Bristow from “Spiked”, an on-line publication that looks suspicially like it was created to support whatever industry is willing to
Read more →Letters to the Editor American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 162, No. 6, August 17, 2005 A cursory glance at the recent paper in the Journal by Lonn et al (1) reveals that, in tables 2-4, only four of 136 calculated odds ratios are above 1.0. If there is no relation between cell phone use and
Read more →Letters to the Editor American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 162, No. 6 2005 The recently published study by Lönn et al. (1) is flawed in many ways. In a broad overview, too few cases were included to enable the authors to find an increased risk for a reasonable latency time at the brain location where
Read more →Here’s the abstract of another recent mobile phone study where the authors “conclude that the data do not support the hypothesis that mobile phone use is related to an increased risk of glioma or meningioma.” Am J Epidemiol. 2005 Mar 15;161(6):526-35. Long-term mobile phone use and brain tumor risk. Lonn S, Ahlbom A, Hall P,
Read more →British Journal of Cancer advance online publication 30 August 2005; doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6602764 Mobile phone use and risk of acoustic neuroma: results of the Interphone case-control study in five North European countries M J Schoemaker1, A J Swerdlow1, A Ahlbom2,13, A Auvinen3,10, K G Blaasaas4, E Cardis5, H Collatz Christensen6, M Feychting2, S J Hepworth7, C Johansen6,
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