From Microwave News: The stalemate over Interphone is coming to an end. A project of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) on the possible links between mobile phones and tumors, Interphone has been bogged down for over three years while its members feuded over how to interpret their results. Now, Microwave News has
Read more →From Microwave News: Shows on cell phone radiation are all over the TV news. We have assembled seven that have appeared over the last few weeks in Australia and Europe. Check them out and get all the details at: http://microwavenews.com/ Best, Louis Slesin [Please note that this page and our home page are expandable. The
Read more →From Elizabeth Kelly: Dear Colleagues, Here is the text of the European Parliament EMF Resolution as passed. Kind regards, Elizabeth Kelley, M.A. Managing Secretariat International Commission For Electromagnetic Safety Email: info@icems.eu Web: www.icems.eu ______________________________________________ http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef= -//EP//TEXT+TA+P6-TA-2009-0216+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN Procedure : 2008/2211(INI) Document stages in plenary Document selected : A6-0089/2009 Texts tabled : A6-0089/2009 Debates : PV 01/04/2009
Read more →There is a YouTube video of the 60 Minute show at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuptoOcRSho&feature=channel_page. A link to the program is also provided on www.brain-surgery.us/mobilephone.html (the video portion is forthcoming) That page also has a downloadable version of the paper by Khurana et al. referred to in the reports on 60 Minutes and Lateline. The Lateline video link
Read more →Australia’s “60 Minutes” investigative TV program (see below) tonight aired a report on cell phone dangers not to be missed. In it, Australian neurosurgeons Charles Teo and Vini Khurana tell of their concerns, including an apparent alarming increase in children with aggressive brain tumours. The other side of the controversy is also given by Rodney
Read more →Canberra Times 4 April 2009 Growing research links brain tumours to heavy mobile phone use By Nyssa Skilton Medical and Technology Reporter A growing body of research is revealing a link between mobile phone use and brain tumours, prompting calls to comprehensively warn users of potential risks. Canberra neurosurgeon Vini Khurana has published a paper
Read more →From Katharina Gustavs: Dear all, I am happy to report that two brochures published by the Competence Initiative from Germany (www.kompetenzinitiave.net) are now available in English as a free download. I highly recommend reading both of them. As a gifted biophysicist, Dr. Ulrich Warnke has a great way of showing us the bigger picture, how
Read more →Twice I have sent out the correct url for the ABC Lateline cell phone program on Youtube and twice the url has been altered in transit. Click on the weblog link on the bottom of the last two messages and the correct url is listed. A technical glitch in the system apparently. Don
Read more →For some reason the copy and pasting of the ABC Lateline cell phone program url. missed out on a (&). Hopefully this one willwork Don http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuptoOcRSho&feature=channel_page
Read more →For those that missed the ABC LateLine program on cell phones it can be viewed on Youtube at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuptoOcRSho&feature=channel_page Don
Read more →From Anne Wagstaf: Scientists speak out on mobile phone, cancer link Print Email Australian Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast: 02/04/2009 Reporter: Ticky Fullerton Over half the world now pays to have a mobile phone. But any research into a link between mobiles phones and brain cancer looks like ‘unfinished business’ especially with children. Some countries like France
Read more →From Stephen Jaramillo: Journal of Pathophysiology devotes entire issue to EMF http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/524214/ description#description Table of Contents: 1. Long-term exposure to magnetic fields and the risks of Alzheimer’s disease and breast cancer: Further biological research Publication year: 2009 Source: Pathophysiology, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 10 March 2009 Zoreh, Davanipour , Eugene, Sobel 2. The
Read more →A special issue of Pathophysiology on the science and public health/policy issues regarding wireless technologies (cell phones) is now on – line at Elsevier ScienceDirect. Submitted by: Cindy Sage New York: March 16, 2009/ International Scientists Find Harmful Effects from Wireless Technologies and Urge New Safety Rules for Cell Phones Public health concerns and scientific
Read more →From Louis Slesin, Microwave News: Tired of waiting for Interphone? Thanks to Professor Bruce Armstrong, you can now get a good idea of what the final results will show. A world-class epidemiologist and the head of the Australian Interphone study team based at the University of Sydney, Armstrong has combined all the available results published
Read more →From Cindy Sage to the CHE news group (Highly recommended See: http://www.healthandenvironment.org/): Conference Report The European Commission Workshop on EMF and Health was held in Brussels this last week (February 11, 12th). It addressed science, policy and public concerns regarding EMF, particularly RF and cell phone use, and worker exposure to EMF in occupational settings
Read more →From Cindy Sage: And, the EU EMF Workshop in Brussels Feb 11-12th just considered a presentation in which it was confirmed that Samsung had to recall 140,000 mobile phones because their SARs were 2.7-2.9 W/Kg (over the 2 W/Kg ICNIRP limit). The other obvious issues of health risks to adults, and the issue of non-compliance
Read more →From Powerwatch News: http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20090212_samsung_children_phone_tobi.asp Samsung market phones for pre-teens Electronics giant Samsung are the latest company to completely ignore UK government advice and market a mobile phone designed explicitly for children, the S3030 Tobi. Following in the footsteps of the MyMo and Teddyfone controversies a few years ago, this is the first time a large
Read more →From Microwave News: Call it the end of an era. Motorola, which has by any measure been the dominant force in the RF health arena for more than 15 years, is stepping back from the fray. The field will never be quite the same again. On Friday, February 13, Motorola will close down its RF
Read more →Request from Bente-Ingrid in Denmark: Dear Don The Danish editor Finn Kamper-Jørgensen from the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health has allowed a Editorial written by the Danish professor Jørn Olsen with the title Mobiles Phones and Health in the January number (2009,37,1-3). It`s just another Danish dishonest statement. http://sjp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/37/1/1 I have allready send a sharp
Read more →CBC Marketplace host Wendy Mesley* reveals new evidence about possible health risks facing the newest generation of cell phone users: children. FRIDAY, JAN. 23, 8:30 pm http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/ *a breast cancer survivor responsible for the excellent 2006 program, Chasing The Cancer Answer, which impelled the Canadian Cancer Society to do something more about toxics in everyday
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