Cellphone call limits suggested by Health Canada The Canadian Press Posted: Oct 4, 2011 5:07 PM ET Parents should encourage children under 18 to limit the time they spend talking on cellphones, Health Canada said Tuesday in new advice on mobile phone usage. The guidance is a nuanced change from previous advice, which suggested that
Read more →Sent in By Lloyd Morgan: (Don’s note: what does this say about the quality of peer review as practiced by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ?) The JNCI Study by Aydin et al on Risk of Childhood Brain Cancer from Cellphone Use Reveals Serious Health Problems L. Lloyd Morgan, Sr. Research Fellow Environmental
Read more →Sent in by Kerstin Stenberg Here is a later version of the previous article. This one written by Kerstin Stenberg and Mona Nilsson October 2, 2011 Mobile phones and cancer risks Scientists manipulated research “” played down brain tumour risks in children. A new industry-sponsored study on brain tumour risks in children who use mobile
Read more →From Lloyd Morgan: To paraphrase Shakespeare, Something”™s rotten in Europe and Rockville, Maryland, USA. The attached news article, recently picked up by Swedish television is by Mona Nilsson, a Swedish investigative reporter. Her previous investigation into the conflicts-of-interest held by Professor Anders Ahlbom from the highly prestigious Karolinska Institute, resulted Professor Ahlbom”™s summary dismissal from
Read more →Sent in by Pedro Belmont Int J Neurosci. 2011 Sep 5. Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: Evidence for a Novel Neurological Syndrome. McCarty DE, Carrubba S, Chesson AL, Frilot C, Gonzalez-Toledo E, Marino AA. Source 1Department of Neurology, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana, USA. Abstract ABSTRACT Objective: We sought direct evidence that acute exposure to environmental-strength electromagnetic
Read more →Compiled and sent in by Robert Williams: SMART METER PRIVACY VIOLATIONS. 1. Must-See 4-minute youtube video on Smart meters: “¨http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2011/pdfs/pr208_E.pdf 3. The NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH months ago (Feb 2011) found biological changes in the brain after only minutes of exposure to non-ionizing radiation. “¨http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/305/8/808.abstract 4. LABORATORY SCIENTISTS have observed”¨(1) Human Cell Damage”¨(2) DNA Chain
Read more →From the office of MHR Andrew Wilkie: September 19, 2011 PHONE TOWER SAFEGUARDS ONE STEP CLOSER The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has now tabled his Telecommunications Amendment (Enhancing Community Consultation) Bill 2011 which will give the community a greater say on the building of mobile phone towers. The Private Member”™s Bill would make
Read more →From the Mercury Newspaper, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia September 21, 2011 By Charles Waterhouse PUBLIC pressure has forced Telstra to abandon plans for a phone tower for a second time this month. The telco this week officially withdrew from Woolworths’ Sandy Bay Supermarket site where it proposed installing transmitters. Earlier this month Telstra withdrew plans to
Read more →From Lyn McLean On Monday 19th September Margaret Throsby will have as her guest on ABC Classic FM radio, Lyn McLean, author of ‘The Force – living safely in a world of electromagnetic pollution’. The one-hour program will be a mix of discussion about electromagnetic radiation and what you can do about it and classic
Read more →Press release from Andrew Wilkie’s office September 13 2011 REINING IN THE MOBILE PHONE TOWER MONSTERS The Independent Member for Denison, Andrew Wilkie, has acted to give the community a greater say on the building of mobile phone towers. Mr Wilkie today formally gave notice to Federal Parliament of his Private Members Bill for an
Read more →Media Release | Spokesperson Senator Bob Brown Wednesday 14th September 2011, 11:33am Greens Leader Bob Brown will today introduce the Telecommunications Amendment (Mobile Phone Towers) Bill 2011 into the Senate to provide a better balance between the power of telcos to put mobile phone antennae where they want and the views of communities affected. “Mobile
Read more →On June 17 of this year Microwave News reported that the IEEE EMF & RF Standards Are Now downloadable for free. ( http://www.microwavenews.com/ShortTakes.html ) This charitable act act is brought to the world by the US Naval Surface Warfare Center who is sponsoring the downloads of five IEEE standards, including those for RF/MW. Further to
Read more →Posted to this blog by Anton Fernhout: Mobile phone-induced honeybee worker piping Published in Apidologie (2011) 42:270″”279 Daniel FAVRE 1,2 1: Scientific collaborator in the Laboratory of Cellular Biotechnology (LBTC), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. 2: Apiary School of the City of Lausanne, Chemin du Bornalet 2, CH-1066, EÌpalinges, Switzerland Received 24
Read more →On September 12th the investigative program Today Tonight aired an explosive investigation into the massive mistakes being made with the new smart meter power bills revealing serious flaws that affect nearly every electricity user if they have a smart meter installed. Power scandal exposed September 12, 2011, 6:18 pm James Thomas Today Tonight A whistleblower
Read more →Taken from “A Machiavellian Spin: Political and corporate involvement with cell phone research in Australia” Exerpt (with a few updates) Following on from the last message, the shadowy “hidden hand” of Motorola is also seen with what happened to the study by Dr. Pamela Sykes from Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia. Syke”™s study, funded
Read more →Taken from “A Machiavellian Spin: Political and corporate involvement with cell phone research in Australia” In 1996 the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council (NH&MRC), established an expert committee to oversee and recommend research into the safety of mobile phones. Concerned about the potential involvement of the telecommunications industry in this process, Sarah Benson,
Read more →While searching through the Microwave News archives: http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html (July 11, 2005) I came across the following snippet about words being added in a published paper without the author’s permission and knowledge that downplayed the significance of the findings. See second paragraph. Don July 11, 2005… The Toronto Star is running a series of articles on
Read more →Sent in by Olle Johansson The New Zealand Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/middle-east/news/article.cfm?l_id=8&objectid=10749523&ref=rss US regulators are investigating an Austrian lobbyist and US telecom maker Motorola over alleged bribes of up to 2.2 million euros (NZ$3.68m), Austrian weekly Profil revealed at the weekend. From April 2004 onwards, Motorola apparently transferred up to 2.2 million euros to three firms controlled
Read more →From Magda Havas: For distribution: A private school in Collingwood, Ontario has removed Wi-Fi and has installed wired technology. This is excellent news. I wish other schools would follow their lead. I understand that the teachers in the school are grateful as are the parents that their children are NOT going to be exposed to
Read more →From the science blog by Dariusz Leszczynski “Between A Rock and A Hard Place” On Mobile Phone Radiation Effects “¢ Did INTERPHONE commit”¦#3? As I mentioned in my previous blog,I have sent a letter to Dr. Christopher Wild, Director of IARC, asking him to take action in the matter of two recent publications from the
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