FOR RELEASE AT WILL: Cell Phones and Health: Is There a Brain Cancer Connection? Experts Convene in Washington D.C. Sept 13-15 Washington, D.C. (August 31, 2009) — Are cell phones safe? Mounting concerns about the cancer risks of cell phone radiation will bring experts to Washington for an international conference on September 13-15. The latest
Read more →The Bankok Post http://www.bangkokpost.com/business/telecom/22889/new-report-reveals -mobile-phone-cancer-risk New report reveals mobile phone cancer risk Cellphones may be essential but the government should wise up to the technology’s potential health risks, Writer: Surasak Glahan Published: 29/08/2009 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News Top design, long-awaited new gadgets and tempting promotions – these are likely the things that dominate
Read more →From Powerwatch News: Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors A new report was released today by the International EMF Collaborative entitled “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone”. This report, sent to government leaders and media today, details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study. The Interphone
Read more →Today ABC News reported that Professor Bruce Armstrong, who led the expert panel that investigated the ABC Toowong breast cancer case, has given the all clear for the ABC. According to Armstrong the incidence of breast cancer at the studios was what would be expected in that population and that there is no need to
Read more →From Katharina Gustavs: Dear all, The Austrian AUVA insurance company commissioned a renowned team of researchers from the Vienna Medical University to take another look at biological effects associated with cell phone radiation. This latest report shows that there are cells that are most sensitive to cell phone radiation and others less so. Sensitive cells
Read more →From Yasmin Skelt: Dear Don, I have been away on holiday and I am encouraged by your words. I know an occupational therapist who also is extremely strict with her teenage son’s use – and her 10 year old has no phone. She said a few years back that her and colleagues had noticed an
Read more →From EMF Sensitivity.com: A Perspective on EMF Research Some thoughts on why it is so difficult to obtain clear, consistent, and meaningful results with EMF research. 1) EMF Silence: Research is performed without achieving true EMF silence. That is, research scientists ensure that the one specific frequency that they are studying has been shielded. However,
Read more →From Gerald Goldberg, MD: Dr. Zinnelis, I admire your heart and inclination. However given the moral imperatives of the modern world, nothing short of an emf blast would rouse them to any acts of conscience. The evidence is there, but the epidemiology tends to be largely ignored. Like the old mythological image of Cronos who
Read more →From Stelios A Zinelis MD, the Hellenic Cancer Society. Replying to message #1100: How reliable is the epidemiological evidence on mobile phones and cancer? With a great interest I read that “”¦Auvinen admitted “¦more of the case-control studies will not improve the situation “¦ and will be waist of time and money”¯. Also you “”¦do
Read more →From Eileen O’Connor, Radiation Research Trust: The new Rewire.me eMagazine contains a new video on Page 10 under the BioInitiative Report “explaining the health effects of electromagnetic fields”¯ by Dr. Martin Blank, PhD Associate Professor at Columbia University. Dr Martin Blank is one the Organising Committee Members of the Bioinitiative Report. His previous roles include
Read more →Considering that Australia’s draft ELF standards contains a three fold increase in allowable exposures, which I have argued in the past appears to be an attempt to find an accommodation with the MRI industry, it will be interesting to see what ICNIRP comes up with after their so-called consultation. For those of you who think
Read more →From Steve Poole: Here’s a link to Dr. Havas’ recent presentation at Royal Roads in Colwood (Victoria) on July 22nd. “Dr. Magda Havas: The Truth About Wired & Wireless Technologies” http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/activism_non_profit/watch/ v18850997pSrnHrmp This link will allow you to view the first five minutes of the video. You then have the option of downloading / installing
Read more →Over the past week the investigative TV program Today Tonight aired in South Australia, and later nationally, a segment on mobile phones that included an interview with Canberra neurosurgeon Vini Khurana. The program can be seen on video by going to the Adelaide link: < http://www.todaytonightadelaide.com.au/ > and scrolling down on the icons to the
Read more →Dear Don, Since Cindy Sage has published her comments concerning my recent blog, I would like that also my responses to these comments would be available to EMFacts readers. Thanks, Dariusz Response to Cindy Sage comments Dear Cindy, In all three articles cited in my blog (two from ICNIRP SC-I, one from Rothman) and in
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: A consensus has emerged in France that the national RF research program should cut its ties to the mobile phone industry. Manufacturers and operators would however continue to help pay for health and environmental research. The important question now is whether the government has the political will to raise money
Read more →As Ahlbon et al points out in the latest ICNIRP inspired cell phone risk assessment, for carcinogens which have a very long average induction time, if there was a causal effect there should be an observable increase in risk much earlier than the average induction time. Asbestos exposure, an unfortunate legacy for many Australian workers,
Read more →The third blog “Between a Rock and a Hard Place” is available at http://rock-and-hard-place.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-reliable-is-epidemiological.html. It asks: How reliable is the epidemiological evidence on mobile phones and cancer? Friday, July 24, 2009 Comments by Cindy Sage on 3rd Blog – Between a Rock and A Hard Place Blog Dariusz, Several questions and comments: 1) You say
Read more →From the blog of Dariusz Leszczynski: ( Research Professor, STUK – Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority ) EXTRACT ONLY Friday, July 24, 2009 How reliable is the epidemiological evidence on mobile phones and cancer? This blog was updated on July 25th, 2009 with a post scriptum. The opening lecture of the recent BioEM 2009, the
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: In a just-released commentary, Ken Rothman, one of the best-known names in epidemiology, explores two of the two most contentious issues related to mobile phone health risks: (1) If cell phones do lead to an increased incidence of brain tumors, when would we expect to begin to see it? And
Read more →The below analysis from Cindy Sage raises the question on why has ICNIRP (and IEMFP who does the risk assessments for ICNIRP) moved to release its risk cell phone assessment before the Interphone report is published. It would have seemed better to have waited until Interphone was published and then include that in the risk
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