Although my evenings are now taken up with other writings (that is why there are so few messages on this list) the following off-topic message on the roots of the current US financial malady is well worth a read, especially if you think the subprime mortgage crisis has anything to do with it. Don ************************************************************************************
Read more →Dear Colleagues: We just posted a short comment on last week’s news suggesting that using a cell phone may be worse than smoking cigarettes. Take a look at: http://www.microwavenews.com Best, Louis __________________________________________________________ Louis Slesin, PhD Editor, Microwave News A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation Phone: +1 (212) 517-2800; Fax: +1 (212) 734-0316 E-mail: Internet: Mail: 155
Read more →Canberra Times (Australia) http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/news/local/general/mobiles-may-be -death-sentence/1210628.html Thursday, 27 March 2008 Mobiles may be death sentence By Danielle Cronin Health Reporter Widespread, unchecked use of mobile telephones could potentially pose a greater threat to human health than asbestos or smoking, according to a Canberra neurosurgeon. Vini Khurana held a 14-month investigation into the link between heavy, long-term
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 →Notice from the Consumers Federation of Australia: [For Australian citizens only] Dear CFA members and supporters Griffith”™s University”™s Centre for Credit and Consumer Law is collecting information about telecommunications fees and charges through an online survey “” we”™d be grateful if you could publicise this survey through your website, memberships and/or networks. A flyer describing
Read more →From Sylvie in France: http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/07/business/mobile08.php Growing concern over safety of cellphones for children By Doreen Carvajal Published: March 7, 2008 PARIS: The MO1 beginner mobile phone is not as cuddly as a teddy bear, but manufacturers of the curvy, crimson and blue cellphone for 6-year-olds promise a similarly warm and fuzzy relationship. They boast about
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 →The March issue of “EMR and Health” has now been published and is available from EMR Australia. This issue offers: * a concise summary of all the news, research and events relevant to EMR and health in the last three months; * findings of health problems near mobile phone base stations at one hundred thousandth
Read more →From Yasmin Skelt: Story from BBC NEWS: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/education/7253493.stm A growing number of people are becoming addicted to their mobile phones, Blackberries and other digital devices, researchers are warning. Techno addiction can become so bad that people wake up several times a night to check their e-mails and text messages. It can even interfere with an
Read more →The following is from Lloyd Morgan’s Cellphone Research Column on the Powerwatch site: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/columns/morgan/index.asp. It is an excellent commentary on the current state of the science on the research, particularly the Interphone study. Selected exerpts from the site: My name is Lloyd Morgan. I am an electronic engineer by training, a Director of the Central
Read more →From Martin Weatherall: BBC News website 18.02.2008 ‘Cancer link’ to heavy mobile use: Heavy mobile phone use may be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland, a study suggests. Researchers looked at 500 Israelis who had developed the condition and compared their mobile phone usage with 1,300 healthy controls. Those who
Read more →After cancer warnings on mobiles, could your home phone be putting your health in danger? By TESSA THOMAS – 18th February 2008 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/healthmain.html?in_ article_id=515970&in_page_id=1774 Like many of us, David Dean enjoyed the freedom a digital cordless phone gave him to walk about the house while on calls. Then the 44-year-old company director from Wimbledon started
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Editor of Microwave News: Dear Colleagues: Last week, the Interphone results from Japan were published and the press welcomed them as a sign that cell phones are safe. Much of that may have been due to a press release from Cancer Research UK, a charitable organization. It stated that “Studies have shown
Read more →From Alfonso Balmori: Very probably, like you say, the bisphenol-A is acting in the deterioration of the quality of the sperm in human for several decades. However the more abrupt deterioration of the quality of the sperm has taken place in the last years: In Spain more than a third (36%) of the procedures of
Read more →This list was started to examine a range of health issues related to both electromagnetic radiation and chemical exposures and it is my belief that there is a huge overlap between the two. Consider the problem of declining sperm quality that has been reported from a number of researchers. Doing the rounds recently is the
Read more →From Sylvie: The Sunday Star-Times (Auckland, New Zealand) February 3, 2008 Sunday Thousands dying of work-related cancers BYLINE: CHISHOLM Donna Tens of thousands of New Zealanders are in jobs that put them at increased risk of cancer – but neither they nor their doctors know it. Investigators from Massey University’s Centre for Public Health Research
Read more →From Libby Kelly: Don, On our website, we have posted a 25 minute presentation by the late Dr. Ted Litovitz, a physicist and dedicated EMF researcher who was a professor at Catholic University of North America in Washington DC. Dr. Litovitz gave an excellent overview of EMF science in 2003 before Congressional staff in the
Read more →From Lukas H. Margaritis: The fact is that Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow published this article in their newspaper on holy Thursday, 3 days before Easter in Russia. Of course I tried to track the information and speak with the journalists with no succes. My estimation, after doing similar
Read more →From Dr. Dimitris J.Panagopoulos The egg cannot be cooked because the effects of mobile telephony radiations are simply NON-THERMAL. Mobile phone radiation can kill cells by destroying their DNA (see: Panagopoulos DJ, Chavdoula ED, Nezis IP and Margaritis LH, (2007): Cell Death induced by GSM 900MHz and DCS 1800MHz Mobile Telephony Radiation, Mutation Research, 626,
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