Following on from the last message, the Brisbane Courier Mail has picked up on our Toowong report (Maisch, Podd & Rapley) and the following appeared in today’s edition. Note that ARPANSA’s CEO Colin Roy claims that “the tests showed only “very low” levels of ELF”. Well, if they are so low why the delay in
Read more →I noticed that in the last message 22 words had been inadvertantly deleted from the message -oops!. The corrections have been made to the web log version and the missing words are below. Now it is not soo confusing! Sorry about that! Don “All we have presently, apparently, is a bit of waffle from ARPANSA
Read more →This morning (Feb 5) the expert panel investigating what is apparently the world’s largest breast cancer cluster at the ABC broadcast building in Toowong, Queensland, Australia, issued their findings to date on the Radio National Health Report. The interview titled: “The inside story – breast cancer incidents at the ABC’s Brisbane offices”, starts off with:
Read more →Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1773694.htm Broadcast: 25/10/2006 Breast cancer rates on the way up Reporter: Mark Bannerman KERRY O’BRIEN: It’s a sobering fact that this year more than 13,000 Australian women and 100 men will be diagnosed with breast cancer. That’s 36 each day and the numbers are growing alarmingly. It’s now
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #607: Further reporting on Toowong ABC studios closure The Herald Sun ABC may face cancer lawsuits By Christine Flatley and Rosemary Desmond December 21, 2006 06:08pm Article from: AAP THE ABC is facing possible legal action from women who have contracted breast cancer while working at the
Read more →The Herald Sun ABC may face cancer lawsuits By Christine Flatley and Rosemary Desmond December 21, 2006 06:08pm Article from: AAP THE ABC is facing possible legal action from women who have contracted breast cancer while working at the broadcaster”s Brisbane studios. An independent study has found that women who worked at the Toowong studios
Read more →ABC Online The World Today – ABC Toowong to close after cancer scare [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1816593.htm] The World Today – Thursday, 21 December , 2006 12:22:00 Reporter: Brigid Glanville ELEANOR HALL: The ABC will abandon one of its capital city headquarters within a matter of weeks because of a health
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #604:ABC Toowong studios to close after breast cancer cluster ABC Online The World Today – ABC Toowong to close after cancer scare [This is the print version of story http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2006/s1816593.htm] The World Today – Thursday, 21 December , 2006 12:22:00 Reporter: Brigid Glanville ELEANOR HALL: The ABC
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #567: Japanese research confirms EMF childhood leukaemia link From Joanne Mueller A higher risk of childhood leukemia, particularly of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), was linked to high magnetic field (MF) exposure 10-06-2006 According to recent research published in the International Journal of Cancer, “Residential power-frequency MFs were
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #525: Report power line concerns, cancer society urges B.C. residents CBC News – Health & Science http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/07/11/power-lines.html Report power line concerns, cancer society urges B.C. residents Last Updated Tue, 11 Jul 2006 14:54:27 EDT CBC News The Canadian Cancer Society says it’s concerned about plans to upgrade
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #520: Leading UK Cancer Charity takes on EMFs While Michael $$$ Repacholi now tells the world that EMFs and ionizing radiation are not that harmful afterall – and may even protect against cancer (last message), organisations actually working with cancer patients and looking for ways of saving
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: #513: Spinning the ABC breast cancer cluster It seems that the bigger a cancer cluster is in Australia the bigger the claims of it being just a statistical aberration, a nasty coincidence or even bad karma (it’s your own fault). And of course we always get the
Read more →Comments about the news on Don Maisch’s weblog: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?p=511 “Not pesticides, not background radiation, not mobile telephones, no, none of those things.” – I think the Israeli cancer association would readily hire him. It is indeed the fashion among “the cancer industry” to speak like that. They call it “evidence based” I call it “cash
Read more →The weblog version of this message is at: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=511 It has just been reported in the Australian media that there has been a further occurrence of breast cancer at the ABC building at Toowong, Queensland. Concerns were raised earlier in 2005 and the Queensland health department”s 2005 report is at: http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs /documents/ABC_Breast_Cancer_Investigation_Report.pdf Note in the
Read more →Powerwatch News: 27/04/2006 http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20060427_hpa_emfdg.asp Summary: At the personal request of Sir William Stewart, Chairman of the UK Health Protection Agency (HPA), a new discussion group has been set up to help develop suitable precautionary advice for the general public regarding exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs). The people invited to participate in this group have considerable
Read more →Following is an article, relevant to the topic of breast cancer, written by Martin Walker and published in The Ecologist in October 2000. (Sent by Eileen O’Conner / Iris Atzmon) Iris Atzmon from Israel commented on the Walker article in an earlier message: “Eileen O’connor reminded me of the following article -a fantastic exposure-article that
Read more →Peer Review gone rotten: AGNIR’s review of breast cancer and EMFs On Feb 9, 2006 The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR), under the leadership of Professor Anthony Swerdlow (a senior member of ICNIRP and who enjoys a commanding role in influencing the British cancer charities research into cancer) released its latest viewpoint on
Read more →It is no surprise to the readers on this list that it is self evident that as evidence for a negative EMF bioeffect becomes stronger, the vested interests threatened by that evidence will come out in force to counter it. In the case of breast cancer and the melatonin effect, the self proclaimed experts from
Read more →Forwarded on by Milt Bowling: Dear Colleagues, Breast Cancer Fund has just released the new fourth edition of State of the Evidence 2006: What is the Connection Between Environment and Breast Cancer? You can access the report online at www.breastcancerfund.org or request a hard copy by e-mailing < info@breastcancerfund.org > or calling 415-346-8223. We hope
Read more →From Robert Reidlinger: BREAST CANCER IN WOMEN, HIGH-VOLTAGE POWER LINES AND MELATONIN by Roger Santini [National Institute of Applied Sciences – Laboratory of Biochemistry Pharmacology, 20, Av. A. Einstein-69621 VILLEURBANNE (France).] http://www.bioelectromagnetics.org/newsletter/news144.html#santini In a recent study, Feychting et al. (1) observe that among estrogen receptor-positive women (younger than 50 years) the relative risk for breast
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