By

Andrew Goldsworthy (March 2012)

Abstract

Many of the reported biological effects of non-ionising electromagnetic fields occur at levels too low to cause significant heating; i.e. they are non thermal. Most of them can be accounted for by electrical effects on living cells and their membranes. The alternating fields generate alternating electric currents that flow through cells and tissues and remove structurally-important calcium ions from cell membranes, which then makes them leak.

Electromagnetically treated water (as generated by electronic water conditioners used to remove lime scale from plumbing) has similar effects, implying that the effects of the fields can also be carried in the bloodstream. Virtually all of the non-thermal effects of electromagnetic radiation can be accounted for by the leakage of cell membranes.

Most of them involve the inward leakage of free calcium ions down an enormous electro-chemical gradient to affect calcium-sensitive enzyme systems. This is the normal mechanism by which cells sense mechanical membrane damage. They normally respond by triggering mechanisms that stimulate growth and repair, including the MAP-kinase cascades, which amplify the signal.

If the damage is not too severe or prolonged, we see a stimulation of growth and the effect seems beneficial, but if the exposure is prolonged, these mechanisms are overcome and the result is ultimately harmful. This phenomenon occurs with both ionising and non-ionising ra-diation and is called radiation hormesis. Gland cells are a good example of this, since short term exposures stimulate their activity but long term exposures cause visible damage and a loss of function. Damage to the thyroid gland from living within 100 metres of a cell phone base station caused hypothyroidism and may be partially responsible for our current outbreak of obesity and chronic fatigue.

Secondary effects of obesity include diabetes, gangrene, cardiac problems, renal failure and cancer. Cell phone base station radiation also affects the adrenal glands and stimulates the production of adrenalin and cortisol. Excess adrenalin causes headaches, cardiac arrhythmia, high blood pressure, tremors and an inability to sleep, all of which have been reported by people living close to base stations. The production of cortisol weakens the immune system and could make people living near base stations more susceptible to disease and cancer.

Inward calcium leakage in the neurons of the brain stimulates hyperactivity and makes it less able to concentrate on tasks, resulting in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). When this happens in the brains of unborn babies and young children, it reduces their ability to concentrate on learning social skills and can cause autism. Leakage of the cells of the peripheral nervous system in adults makes them send false signals to the brain, which results in the symptoms of electromagnetic intolerance (aka electromagnetic hypersensitivity). Some forms of electromagnetic intolerance may be due to cell phone damage to the parathyroid gland, which controls the calcium level in the blood and makes cell membranes more inclined to leak. Further exposure could then tip them over the edge into full symptoms of electromagnetic intolerance.

Cell phone radiation damages DNA indirectly, either by the leakage of digestive enzymes from lysosomes or the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) from damaged mitochondrial and plasma membranes. The results are similar to those from exposure to gamma rays from a radioactive isotope.

Effects of DNA damage include an increased risk of cancer and a loss of fertility, both of which have been found in epidemiological studies. The effects of cell phone and WiFi radiation have also been determined experimentally using ejaculated semen. The results showed the production of ROS, and a loss of sperm quality and, in some cases, DNA fragmentation.
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More:
http://www.elektrosmognews.de/news/20120514_Biol Effects EMF.doc

Is a rise in brain tumours linked to the radiation sources we hold so close to our heads? Experts can’t agree on the answer

Allegations of lobbying, bad science, not enough science, conflicts of interest, political inertia, scaremongering and lawsuits: the debate surrounding the safety of mobile phones has it all. With more than 5 billion users worldwide, mobile phones have undoubtedly become central to modern life in just two decades, but could they be a health hazard?

Scientists at the Children with Cancer conference in London this week will advocate that governments adopt the ‘precautionary principle’ – advising phone users to take simple steps to protect themselves and their children from potential, not proven, long term health risks of electromagnetic fields - especially head cancers.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/a-close-call-why-the-jury...

A NEW wallpaper that can filter out Wifi waves has been developed by French researchers: and they say it could be priced the same as classic wallpaper.

Pierre Lemaitre-Auger of the Grenoble Institut Polytechnique said the wallpaper - called Métapapier or Metapaper - would give people and businesses reassurance about electromagnetic radiation from Wifi and mobile phone signals.

It has a treble purpose: shielding people from outside radiation, ensuring homes and offices' own Wifi signal is not being hacked or hijacked - and looking good.

Developed by Grenoble INP Phd student Fabien De Barros and the Centre Technique du Papier, it uses a printed pattern of conductive silver ink that filters out specific frequencies such as the 0.9, 1.8 and 2.1 GHz of mobile phone signals or the 2.45 and 5.5 GHz of Wifi.
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http://www.connexionfrance.com/Wallpaper-Metapaper-Wifi-mobile-phone-Grenoble-Fabien-Ba...

http://anticorruptionsociety.com/tag/barrie-thrower/

The Hidden Dangers of Wireless Communications
February 27, 2012

Barrie Trower (former cold war scientist trained in micro-wave weapons) explains the severe danger facing all living things on planet Earth due to the out-of-control advancement of the Telecommunications Industry. This series is a must see for all of us … especially parents/grandparents and folks currently employed in law enforcement and espionage. According to Mr Trower, children, first-responders and surveillers are getting the highest doses of dangerous Electro-Magnetic Radiation.

Some of the facts explained by Mr Trower:

 WiFi in schools is a very serious threat to our children and to future generations
 Safe levels of EMR for children have not been publicly announced because there are no safe levels for children
 Society really had no ‘need’ for advanced telecommunication technology
 Telecommunication industry is the most powerful industry on the planet
 TETRA wave system has been used to make both police and demonstrators more violent
 Mobile phone industry is biggest donor to the Cancer Institute in the UK, who re-diagnosed brain tumors as endocrine cancers so they wouldn’t show up on cancer statistics
 Mobile phone safety studies were manipulated to conceal the truth
 The natural environment of the planet is being devastated by the telecommunications industry, which is currently the world’s worst polluter
 Microwave technologies are causing birth and genetic defects in EVERY LIVING THING including fish, plants, trees, animals and even the slime mold that lives in the soil

Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZltkerG37g&feature=related
Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAGhVGuoUmI&feature=related
Part 4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNh8gfpL_Q&feature=related
Part 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbfCyupFDD0&feature=related
Part 6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EsIynuPT0k&feature=related
Part 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGOs5fPqReg&feature=related
Part 8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrA_Z4zFqo&feature=related
Part 9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri63wxldrGI&feature=related
Part 10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Avak9DtXoQ&feature=related
Part 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIgCPu_Siqk&feature=related
Part 12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnaRqH3OE10&feature=related
Part 13
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Mg6OqY_xQ&feature=related

Submitted by Prashant Duggal on Wed, 05/09/2012 - 22:19

Indian government has extended by five months the deadline for cutting radiation from cellphone towers by 90%, the government informed the Lok Sabha today.

The directive cutting radiation limits for cellphone towers was issued after a multi-year consultation between the government, the industry, scientific bodies and consumer associations.

The directive was supposed to come into effect in April this year. But this has now been extended to September 1, minister of state for communication and IT Milind Deora said.

He said the step was taken after the government got 'representations' from cellular operators and their associations.

"Representations were received from Cellular Operator Association of India (COAI) expressing concerns on lowering of EMF radiation norms," he said.

Electromagnetic radiation or EMR is a method of sending energy through the atmosphere using an antenna (such as those on the cellphone towers.)
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http://rtn.asia/1242_cut-cellphone-tower-radiation-90-gov-mobile-operators

Up to now our appeal for funds has raised about 13,000 Euro, by far not enough to allow Lennart Hardell to complete his research project. The amount, however, can certainly be regarded as a success considering that the vast majority of people is not aware of the health risk that goes along with the rapid development of mobile communication technologies since the nineties. This is the reason, why we urgently need a clarification through independent research, and Hardell’s research project offers a unique opportunity. Since this has also been recognized by industry and politics, which obstruct the increase in knowledge due to economic interests for decades, they refused to support him. Therefore, we kindly ask you, dear citizens of Europe, to contribute to the evaluation of risk through mobile communication radiation that might seriously threaten the future of our children. If all the people – who share our opinion – are ready to donate 10 Euro each, this can be done.

People in Europe and beyond are still confronted with the problem that the opinions on the biological effects of mobile communication radiation considerably diverge. Industry and politics are convinced that mobile communication radiation is harmless, and compliant media have taken over the task to lull people into a false sense of security with this message. Since this approach is strictly in contrast to the results of independent research, we are obviously dealing with a more or less intentional misguidance of the public. The results of independent research are exclusively published in scientific journals to which laymen do not have access. Thus, it is easy for industry and politics – wrongly claiming the right to interpret the scientific data already for decades – to ignore whatever finds their disapproval. And should that, for whatever reason, not be possible anymore they do not shy away from getting rid of research data that are not in line with their economic interests by slander.

A few months ago, I summarized what I experienced during 20 years of research on biological effects of electromagnetic fields in a lecture at the Center for Ethics of the Harvard Law School*. It is institutional corruption that is responsible for both, the still poor state of knowledge in this area of research and the apparent blindness of federal authorities for the need of precautionary measures to protect the people. The poor state of knowledge is indeed due to selective funding of research by industry and politics and, especially, due to the willingness of hired scientists to adapt their research to the needs of industry. The blindness of federal authorities can be ascribed to the to lobbyism in the antechambers of political power that consequently ignores any progress in science meanwhile enforced by independent researchers. Ignored to the disadvantage of our societies is also the historical cognizance: „Law and justice cannot be reached without verity” (Volker Gerhardt, Professor of philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin).

Our appeal for funds shall break the research monopoly of industry and politics and provide an independent researcher the basis to generate independent results. This appeal is already available in German, English, and French. Now we added an Italian version. Reason is that the matter at issue concerns the people in all of Europe and beyond.

Our appeal is supported by Diagnose Funk, Kompetenzinitiative, and H.E.S.E. Project. Other organizations are welcome to join.

* http://www.pandora-foundation.eu/downloads/harvard_23-03-2012_en.pdf

Open Letter to Prof. Wallberg-Henriksson, President, The Karolinska Institute

EHS Fight Back

By Dafna Tachover, May 6, 2012

http://ehsfighback.blogspot.de/2012/05/karolinska-witch-hunt-against-scientist.html

Figures just published by the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics found a 50 percent increase in frontal and temporal lobe tumors in children between 1999 and 2009

Do Cellphones Damage Your Health?

NEWSMAX HEALTH, Sunday, May 6, 2012 12:12 PM
By Sylvia Booth Hubbard
The United Kingdom's Health Protection Agency (HPA) issued a report last month that said studies haven't shown convincing evidence that cellphones increase the risk of brain tumors or any other type of cancer. But they added a word of caution stating: "However, as this is a relatively new technology, the HPA will continue to advise a precautionary approach and keep the science under close review."

The British report followed a Danish study released last year that found no increased risk for acoustic neuromas — noncancerous brain tumors — in people who had used cellphones for 11 to 15 years. The study was especially important because of its size: It included the entire Danish population.

But doubts remain. Figures just published by the U.K.'s Office of National Statistics found a 50 percent increase in frontal and temporal lobe tumors in children between 1999 and 2009. Did cellphones cause the increase? The jury's still out, but some researchers point to the radiation cellphones emit.

The results of studies on whether or not cellphones cause cancer are about 50/50 until you consider the funding sources, says Joel Moskowitz, director of the Center for Family and Community Health at the University of California, Berkley, in a story in London's Independent newspaper. About 75 percent of the studies that found no health risks were funded by industry.

"This is the largest technological experiment in the history of our species and we’re trying to bury our head in sand about the potential risks to cells, organs, reproduction, the immune system, behavior, and risks we still know next to nothing about," Moskowitz said.

The results of many studies are disturbing. A report published last October in the journal Electromagnetic Biology and Medicine said that due to the process for evaluating microwave radiation from phones — which was designed by the cellphone industry and is based on a large man whose brain tissue is supposedly homogeneous — the amount of radiation being absorbed by many adults is being underestimated.

The problem is much worse for children who absorb twice as much microwave radiation from phones as adults. The report says that the hippocampus and hypothalamus of children absorb up to triple the amounts of radiation, and their bone marrow absorbs as much as 10 times more than adults.

Although a study from the National Institutes of Health didn't find that cellphones increased cancer risk, it did discover that having a 50-minute conversation with the cellphone next to an ear changes brain activity in the area of the brain closest to the phone.

After reviewing dozens of cellphone studies, the International Agency for Research on Cancer issued a statement in 2011 that said cellphones may cause cancer in humans. They based their findings on studies that found that using a cellphone for 10 years doubles the risk of developing a glioma (cancerous brain tumor — the type that killed Ted Kennedy). In addition, an Israeli study found people who used cellphones frequently had a 58 percent increase in parotid tumors, cancer of a salivary gland near the ear.

Researchers at the University of Washington discovered that two hours of exposure to the levels of radiation emitted by cellphones splintered the DNA of brain cells in rats, making them appear similar to cells found in cancerous tumors. Other research has suggested that cellphone use causes changes in the body, and that their use should, at least, be limited.

A Russian study found that children who used cellphones had poorer memories than those children who didn’t. In addition, an animal study released in March by researchers at Yale University linked the radiation from cellphones to changes in brain development that could cause hyperactivity. “We have shown that behavioral problems in mice that resemble ADHD are caused by cellphone exposure in the womb,” said senior researcher Dr. Hugh S. Taylor, a reproductive specialist. “The rise in behavioral disorders in human children may be in part due to fetal cellular telephone irradiation exposure."

The effect of cellphone radiation on male fertility is especially troubling. Research in seven countries found that young men who are heavy users of cellphones drastically lower their sperm count. "All the research shows the same thing," award-winning scientist Devra Davis told the Daily Mail. "If you take young men who are trying to become fathers, those who use mobile phones at least four hours a day have about half the sperm count of others. ...

To read full report go to:
www.newsmaxhealth.com/

Science has confirmed that the trusty mobile gadget - which now comes as a smartphone or feature phone - emits radiation, ramping up fears that humans may indeed develop brain cancer from excessive use of the ubiquitous device.

In May 2011, the World Health Organisation (WHO) listed cell phones as likely contributors to brain cancer, specifically glioma and acoustic neuroma brain conditions.

Thirty-one scientists working for the international health agency concluded on a report that personal exposure to mobile phones could be "possibly carcinogenic to humans."

The WHO report said that mobile phones generate x-ray like radiation that is comparable to the rays emitted by microwave ovens.

"What microwave radiation does in most simplistic terms is similar to what happens to food in microwaves, essentially cooking the brain," the report said as quoted by CNN in a news article that the network ran last year.
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http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/337837/20120507/debate-rages-brain-cancer-risk-mobile-ph...

Mayor George Pradel, Naperville, Illinois 60540

Re: Smart Meters
Dear Sirs/Madams:
This is concerning potential adverse health effects associated with exposure to radiofrequency (RF) radiation, specifically that from smart meters. I am a public health physician and former Dean of the School of Public Health at the University at Albany. I have been involved in review and analysis of studies on electromagnetic fields, including radiofrequency fields, for many years. I served as the Executive Secretary to the New York State Powerlines Project in the 1980s, and have published several reviews on the subject. In addition I was invited to present to the recent President’s Cancer Panel on the subject of powerline and radiofrequency fields and cancer, and the publication that came from that Panel is attached. I have edited two books on effects of EMFs, including RF radiation. I served as the co-editor of the Bioinitiative Report (www.bioinitiative.org), a comprehensive review of the literature on this subject. The public health chapter from this report was subsequently published in a peer reviewed journal, which is attached. This is a subject which I know well, and one on which I take a public health approach that has as a fundamental principle the need to protect against risk of disease even when one does not have all the information that would be desirable.

There is clear and strong evidence that intensive use of cell phones increases the risk of brain cancer, tumors of the auditory nerve and cancer of the parotid gland, the salivary gland in the cheek by the ear. The evidence for this conclusion is detailed in many publications in the peer-reviewed scientific literature. Smart meters use similar radiofrequency radiation, although the intensity of exposure in the immediate environment is under most circumstances lower than what one gets from holding a cell phone close to your head. The difference between a cell phone and a smart meter environment is that while the cell phone is used only intermittently a smart meter environment is continuous. There is also strong evidence that leukemia rates are increased among people living near to powerful AM radio transmission towers. Because WiFi, radio transmission towers and smart meters all generate similar RF radiation, my conclusion is that if the whole body is exposed, leukemia is the major cancer of concern, while if only the head is exposed as in using a cell phone, one sees increased risk of local cancers, such as brain cancer. There are a variety of other health effects reported as a result of exposure to RF radiation, but in my judgment the increased risk of cancer is both the best documented and the disease of greatest concern.

There have been no studies specifically of the health effects of smart meters to my knowledge, in great part because they haven’t been around very long. But they utilize the same type of RF radiation that is used in cell phones. It should be noted that the World Health Organization this past summer declared radiofrequency radiation to be a possible human carcinogen. While it is true that the nature of exposure to RF from smart meters is not significantly different from that coming from other wireless devices, what is important is cumulative, aggregate exposure. My position is that we should practice “prudent avoidance”, which is to say reduce unnecessary exposure to the degree possible until the magnitude of risk is fully understood.

My specific concerns about smart meters are as follows:
1. The benefit of the smart meters is entirely to the utilities, and is economic in nature. If they install smart meters they can fire those individuals who at present are employed to go around reading meters. Thus this is a job-killing proposal, and will increase unemployment which is already too high.
2. When a wireless smart meter is installed residents have no choice in the matter or ability to avoid exposure. But every individual has the option to use or not use other personal wireless devices. There is a major difference between an exposure which an individual chooses to accept and one that is forced on individuals who can do nothing about it.
3. Most wireless smart meters transmit signals to the utility for relatively short periods of time. However, the device continuously generates RF radiation that will expose anyone nearby 24/7.
4. The evidence for adverse effects of radiofrequency radiation is currently strong and grows stronger with each new study. Wired meters with shielded cable do not increase exposure. The same benefit to the utility could be achieved by use of ...

Full letter to City Council of Naperville:
http://napervillesmartmeterawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/SmartMeters_IL_DrHi...

DR. MAGDA HAVAS, B.Sc., PH.D.,
ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE STUDIES PROGRAM
TRENT UNIVERSITY
PETERBOROUGH, ON
CANADA K9J 7B8

OPEN LETTER WI-FI IN SCHOOLS (#3) 2012

May 2012. At the request of some teachers I have updated the open letter I wrote in May 2009 about Wi-Fi in the school environment. Much has happened during the past 3 years making it even more urgent that a moratorium be placed on the deployment of Wi-Fi in schools; and that schools that currently have Wi-Fi consider reducing the microwave exposure as much as possible for part or the entire day and for part or the entire school by returning to the use of wired connections (ethernet or fiber optics) for internet access.

Full report on:
http://www.magdahavas.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Wi-Fi-Open-Letter2012.pdf

http://microondes.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/robert-c-kane-cellular-telephone-russian-rou...

Albeit he published my comment he removed the hint as well as the link to the book! Honestly I'm not really sure about Dariusz Leszczynski.

It is just needed to read Robert C. Kane carefully, to know everything you need to know concerning brain cancer and mobile phones, it isn't that difficult.

Best regards

Michael
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http://microondes.wordpress.com/

Last week I participated in the Childhood Cancer 2012 conference organized by the Children with Cancer charity in London, UK.

It was an excellent conference, coveryng broad variety of issues. Hopefully soon the presentations, that were streamed live on internet, will be available for viewing again.

In the meanwhile, those interested may view slides from my own presentation here: Leszczynski Childhood Cancer 2012

Audio of my talk is available here, thanks to Mr. Henrik Eirikson: http://www.mast-victims.org/resources/audio/leszczynski-childhood-cancer-conf-25-04-201...

Following my talk, I received, from the prominent ICNIRP Main Committee member, the following evaluation of my presentation:

“I think you should get a new job!
You are wasting your time and ours!”

Someone else commented that I should be proud of such evaluation… Well, my only reason for doing what I am doing is to provide general public with as unbiased information as possible. Coin has two sides…

Slide that clarifies my last statement in London presentation slides about the Precutionary Principle recommendation:

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http://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/childhood-cancer-2012-conferenc...

a) All European countries would recognise both Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) and Electro Hypersensitivity (EHS) in their International Classification of Diseases (ICD), since patients from the member states find themselves in situations of inequality regarding health, legal and social issues. The World Health Organisation (WHO) recognises the sovereignty of the countries in this regard. MCS has been recognised in Germany, Austria and Luxembourg, but not in the other European Union countries. EHS is recognised as a disability in Sweden.

b) This POLICY RECOMMENDATION would be forwarded to the World Health Assembly.

c) The European Parliament would request the WHO to include MCS and EHS in the 11th version of the ICD, which is currently being developed and will be released in 2015, as well as in any other spin-off classifications and in the List of Occupational Diseases of the International Labour Office (ILO).

European MCS and EHS patients associations have been set a deadline period between March 12th and June 14th 2012 during which we can contact politicians and MEPs from our respective countries.

According to our data base there are 755 EMPs and we need a majority of their signatures in order to get this Written Declaration passed. It will be an arduous task.

The European Parliament has suggested that we create and send out illustrated information to all EPs.

The email to be sent will attach or enclose the following documentation:

1. A link to the template of the email so it can be downloaded directly from the web (in English): ONE CODE 4 MCS – 4 EHS.

2. The email template in Word or PDF to attach to the email of the EMPs, so if they can print out and “in situ” circulate them and spread the campaign.

3. The Written Declaration translated to all languages.

4. The EMP database that we have created to facilitate the association’s task of spreading of this campaign to EMPs.

5. A 2012 calendar of the European Parliament sessions. We are especially interested in the plenary sessions. They are printed in red.

HOW CAN YOU GET INVOLVED IN THIS CAMPAIGN?

The work of associations, physicians, scientists, and the sick or all who feel identified with this problem starting from now will consist of launching this campaign to obtain the majority of votes, i.e. 378.

To achieve this, you can carry out different actions:

1) Send the e-mail template to all the data based MEPs in the days preceding the plenary sessions by attaching:

· The same text but in Word or PDF format.

· The Written Declaration translated into all languages.

2) If possible, contact EMPs, either personally or through third parties. They can be contacted by telephone.

3) Contact politicians from each country so that through their respective political parties they will contact their EMPs.

4) Forward the email template and the attached documents to other associations so that they can carry out the same work as us, wherever they are.

In regards o proceeding before the media, it would be to advantageous to carry them out in each country in the days preceding plenary sessions.

We hope to be able to count on your maximum collaboration, even though it is not a law, it is a very important Policy Recommendation which can help us advance towards achieving the ICD code (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems) for MCS and EHS at a European and global level.

Francesca Romana Orlando
Vice President of AMICA

please read this important message about the Written Declaration that some members of the EU Parliament wrote to push WHO to recognize MCS and EHS in the ICD-11, the new code of diseases that will be released in 2015.

We need that more than 50% of the members of the EU Parliament support this Declaration BEFORE 14 June.

Here in attachment you find all the information you need to contact your national representatives at the EU Parliament (of any party) and ask them to support this Declaration.

You also have the list of EU MeP emails. So you just need to write them and possibly call them by phone to have a feedback.

THIS IS A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THESE TWO ENVIRONMENTAL ILLNESSES RECOGNIZED, SO PLEASE ACT NOW!

Plaese contact me or Francisca Gutierrez Clavero from Spanish organization Asquifyde for any more information.

Best regards,

Francesca Romana Orlando
Vice President of AMICA
Associazione Malattie da Intossicazione Cronica e/o Ambientale
(Association for Environmental and Chronic Toxic Injury)
P.O. Box 3131
00121 Rome - Italy
www.infoamica.it
amica@infoamica.it
Skype: Infoamica

There are conflicting headlines in the papers after a major review of the evidence on mobile phones and cancer. Which are true? Polly Curtis, with your help, finds out. Get in touch below the line, tweet @pollycurtis or email polly.curtis@guardian.co.uk.

The Health Protection Agency today publishes a large-scale review of the evidence to date on the links between mobile phone use and brain cancer. You can find the full report here.

The publication triggered the following headlines in this morning's papers, with the Guardian and Independent in agreement:

No clear evidence that mobile phone radiation damages health (The Guardian website)
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2012/apr/26/health-m...

Mobile Phones are Safe, NOT!

Interview with Dr. Annie Sasco, MD, MPHS, MS, Dr PH
Group Leader INSERM U 897, epidemiology for cancer prevention. Previous Head of IARC and WHO programs on cancer prevention

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JyAlO_UdSk

24.04.2012 von Richard Bradford
Despite the voices of industry-funded scientists saying otherwise there is concrete evidence that mobiles/cellphones and wifi cause cancer in humans. In 2011 the IARC reclassified them as Class 2B, possibly carcinogenic, yet they actually had enough evidence if not the courage to go further and classify them as Class 2A, probably carcinogenic.

Here Dr Annie Sasco, Harvard Doctorate, ex-Head of the IARC on cancer research, ex-cancer specialist for the WHO and now group leader of an INSERM programme on cancer prevention in France, talks frankly in an exclusive interview about why we should be concerned - especially for children. Even if you don't use a mobile phone or wifi you are still affected. Watch this video for true facts, not industry-funded hype that there is no evidence of harm. It could save your life.

Studies 'are split 50/50' in conclusions, leaving the issue open for debate
But believers fear fall-out from the 'biggest technological experiment in the history of our species'

A scientific conference starting in London today will urge governments across the world to support independent research into the possibility that using mobile phones encourages the growth of head cancers.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134382/Risks-biggest-technological-experiment-...

A growing number of Canadian students and teachers are convinced wireless Internet at school is making them sick and they're wondering why Health Canada has remained silent about the potential risks linked to Wi-Fi.

Canada's health agency issued new advice on mobile phones Tuesday, advising parents to encourage kids under 18 to cap their cellphone use.

But Health Canada has not issued information about the possible risks associated with other wireless devices, including wireless Internet. It maintains Wi-Fi is "safe."

In May, the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer arm classified all radiation emitted by wireless devices as possibly carcinogenic.
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http://www.torontosun.com/2011/10/06/wi-fi-making-kids-teachers-sick

Knesset backs bill requiring cell phones to bear health hazard warning

The labels will read 'Warning - the Health Ministry cautions that heavy use and carrying the device next to the body may increase the risk of cancer, especially among children.'

A bill requiring all cellphones sold in Israel to bear a health-hazard warning label passed its first of three readings into law on Wednesday.

The bill, sponsored by MK Dov Khenin of Hadash and Yulia Shamalov Berkovich of Kadima, won blanket approval in parliament. It also requires all advertisements of mobile phones to bear the warning.
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http://www.haaretz.com/business/knesset-backs-bill-requiring-cell-phones-to-bear-health...