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    • 17 FEB 10

    #1215: FORGET ABOUT CELL PHONES “PREVENTING” ALZHEIMER’S

    New Florida University Study Fatally Flawed By William Thomas http://willthomasonline.net/willthomasonline/Forget_About_Cell_Phones_ Preven.html The news broke like a bombshell”¦ “Want To Prevent Alzheimer’s? Use Your Cell Phone More”ť trumpeted a scientific website: If your friends and family give you trouble for spending too much time on your cell phone, scientists at the University of South Florida may

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    • 09 FEB 10

    #1213:Belyaev – Microwaves From Mobile Phones Inhibit 53BP1 Focus Formation in Human Stem Cells

    From Cindy Sage (as posted on the cheemf list): A landmark paper by Igor Belayev’s team at Stockholm University has reported that very low intensity microwave radiation from mobile phones inhibits DNA repair processes in human stem cells. By placing a mobile phone at one meter distance from human stem cells in petri dishes (SAR

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    • 08 FEB 10

    #1211: Dr. Wright on mobile phone/ tumour link

    Dr. Wright, Australia’s most known media medical commentator has joined the growing list of Australian doctors who have publically expressed concern over the possible link between mobile phone use and brain tumours. The following is from Dr Wright’s February 7, 2010 question and answer segment, published in the Sunday Tasmanian. Mobile phone menace CAN mobile

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    • 07 FEB 10

    #1210: Could Your Cell Phone End Up Killing You?

    From AlterNet: http://www.alternet.org/environment/145562/could_your_cell_phone_ end_up_killing_you A new debate is raging over whether prolonged cell phone use poses serious health side effects. February 5, 2010 | Exerpt: In the debate over cell phones, there doesn’t appear to be any consensus on what, exactly, the harmful health effects on cell phone users may be. Unfortunately, the scary truth

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    • 03 FEB 10

    #1208: Who’s in the Middle?

    From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: On one side there’s the establishment scientists at ICNIRP and the lobbyists in industry and, on the other, the activists at organizations like NEXT-UP. But there’s very little in between. And, in case you missed it, check out Christopher Ketcham’s article, “Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your

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    • 01 FEB 10

    #1207: New paper on cell phone safety standards

    From Dariusz Leszczynski : The web-based journal “Health Reseach Policy and Systems” (HARPS; part of the BioMed Central) has published a commentary by Dariusz Leszczynski and Zhengping Xu. “Mobile phone radiation health risk controversy: the reliability and sufficiency of science behind the safety standards”. The article is available here: http://www.health-policy-systems.com/content/8/1/2 The provisional pdf is available

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    • 28 JAN 10

    #1205: GQ Magazine: Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to Your Health

    Message #1203 mentioned the investigative cell phone article by Christopher Ketcham in GQ Mazazine and this message follows it up further. Even though the article is primarily aimed at the American audience the problem is universal: the involvement of political and corporate entities in suppressing and controlling science to protect their interests to the detriment

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    • 27 JAN 10

    #1204: Italian court blames mobile phone use for occupational disability-and a warning for young people

    Link: http://www.next-up.org/pages/Justice.php#1 December 16, 2009 Donata Bonometti Today, for the first time, a Labour Tribunal recognized the occupational origin of the disease of a man who for ten years was a company executive in Brescia. He worked for long hours using a cell phone and a cordless phone. The man, Innocenzo Marcolini, 57, had a

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    • 24 JAN 10

    #1203: “Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to your health€ť

    From Camilla Rees: ON NEWS STANDS NOW: “Warning: Your Cell Phone May Be Hazardous to your Health”ť – by investigative journalists Christopher Ketcham in the Feb 2010 issue of GQ magazine Read review and listen to interview with the article’s author, Christopher Ketcham, by Camilla Rees of www.ElectromagneticHealth.org : http://electromagnetichealth.org/electromagnetic-health-blog/cell-phones-the- new-cigarettes-gq-thinks-so/

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    • 23 JAN 10

    #1201: Videos on on safer cell phone use by teens and young children

    From Elizabeth Kelly, ICEMS: Dear Colleagues, On behalf of the International Commission for Electromagnetic Safety, I just produced some public education materials on safer cell phone use by teens and young children. See www.icems.eu. Click on campaign for “safer cell phone use.”ť This information was prepared under the direct guidance of and participation by Dr.

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