Child Warning Over Mobile Phones Part 2
www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org Youngest at most risk He said: “If there are risks – and we think that maybe there are – then the people who are going to be most affected are children, and the younger the children, the greater the danger. “Parents have a responsibility to their children not simply to throw a mobile phone to a young child, and say ‘off you go’.” Professor Lawrie Challis, who was vice chairman of the Stewart Inquiry and is now chairman of the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, set up to investigate the health risks of mobile phones, told BBC News: “I would certainly not wish my own grandchildren to use mobile phones more than they had to.” Rosie Winterton, the Public Health Minister, said government guidance stressed that mobile phones should not be over-used by young children. “Obviously there are parents who feel they want to children to have mobile phones for safety reasons, but we are quite clear that they ought to be very careful about over-use. “There is on-going research both in the use of mobile phones and the siting of mobile phone bases.” Since the first Stewart report experts have remained divided over whether the phones pose a risk. ‘Harmful’ Last year a 750-people study by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute suggested using a mobile phone for 10 years or more increases the risk of ear tumours by four times. A Dutch study has suggested mobile phone use can affect brain function, and further research from Europe …
www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org “Maria Isabel Gomez, a young woman of 18, has recovered from her illness, a lymphatic cancer that was diagnosed when she was 16. “”It’s an age when you’re very sensitive. I had chemo, I lost all my hair and I couldn’t go out with my friends, I stayed at home all day, and I lost a whole year of school.”" Her mother recalls how full of life she used to be. “”To see your daughter throwing up and her health crumbling away is heartbreaking and painful.”" One pupil has lost the sight of one eye because of a retinal blastoma [perhaps a radiation-induced osteogenic sarcoma? Ed]. Five others have had an operation to remove part of the thyroid and ganglial tumours in different parts of the body. A third pupil died earlier this year. The official cause of their sudden death was never found in spite of an official enquiry and an inquest. Among the teaching staff there are several cases of breast cancer, leukaemia and degenerative diseases. Charters Towers, Queensland Colorado Springs, Colorado Tampa, Florida Argentina, Buenos Aires City Al Masafirah, United Arab Emirates, Al Masafirah, UAE Morocco, Rabat Albuquerque, New Mexico Hungary, Budapest Palau, Koror Shreveport, Louisiana www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org
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State legislators in Maine are preparing to enact a law which would require all mobile phones in the state to carry a potential health risk warning. Jim Axelrod reports.
www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org Since brain tumours often develop very slowly it may be many years before the full impact of our reliance on mobiles becomes clear. But they are already implicated in another area of concern to health professionals, the onset of dementia in those under 65. Experts are at a loss to explain the increase in this condition which has seen a surge in demand for pre-senile dementia units across the country. But can we really be surprised when a study at the Institute of Environmental Medicine in Sweden confirmed this month that exposure to EMFs significantly accelerates brain degeneration? The risks posed by EMFs are recognised not only by scientists, but hard-headed commercial organisations. In 1997, the insurance company Swiss-Re identified EMFs as likely to cause the biggest increase in claims in years to come. Swiss-Re and other insurers have therefore refused to indemnify the mobile phone operators against health claims from their customers. Even so, we should not hold out much hope of our politicians protecting us from EMFs. The mobile phone industry in the UK contributes around £20 billion in tax every year, so it’s hardly likely the Government will take action to reduce the number of calls. Indeed, it seems to be going in almost the opposite direction, encouraging the installation of Wi-Fi networks in our schools with tactics which sometimes verge on coercion. I’ve been told about a school which was threatened that it would …
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hosted.ap.org AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim. The now-ubiquitous devices carry such warnings in some countries, though no US states require them, according to the National Conference of State Legislators. A similar effort is afoot in San Francisco, where Mayor Gavin Newsom wants his city to be the nation’s first to require the warnings. Maine Rep. Andrea Boland, D-Sanford, said numerous studies point to the cancer risk, and she has persuaded legislative leaders to allow her proposal to come up for discussion during the 2010 session that begins in January, a session usually reserved for emergency and governors’ bills. Boland herself uses a cell phone, but with a speaker to keep the phone away from her head. She also leaves the phone off unless she’s expecting a call. At issue is radiation emitted by all cell phones. Under Boland’s bill, manufacturers would have to put labels on phones and packaging warning of the potential for brain cancer associated with electromagnetic radiation. The warnings would recommend that users, especially children and pregnant women, keep the devices away from their head and body. The Federal Communications Commission, which maintains that all cell phones sold in the US are safe, has set a standard for the “specific absorption …
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www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org While there’s little agreement about the health hazards, Boland said Maine’s roughly 950000 cell phone users among its 1.3 million residents “”do not know what the risks are.”" All told, more than 270 million people subscribed to cellular telephone service last year in the United States, an increase from 110 million in 2000, according to CTIA-The Wireless Association. The industry group contends the devices are safe. “”With respect to the matter of health effects associated with wireless base stations and the use of wireless devices, CTIA and the wireless industry have always been guided by science, and the views of impartial health organizations. The peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a public health risk,”" said CTIA’s John Walls. James Keller of Lewiston, whose cell phone serves as his only phone, seemed skeptical about warning labels. He said many things may cause cancer but lack scientific evidence to support that belief. Besides, he said, people can’t live without cell phones. “”It seems a little silly to me, but it’s not going to hurt anyone to have a warning on there. If they’re really concerned about it, go ahead and put a warning on it,”" he said outside a sporting good store in Topsham. “”It wouldn’t deter me from buying a phone.”" While there’s been no long-term studies on cell phones and cancer, some scientists suggest erring on the side of caution. Norman, Oklahoma …
www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org – www.emfnews.org All told, more than 270 million people subscribed to cellular telephone service last year in the United States, an increase from 110 million in 2000, according to CTIA-The Wireless Association. The industry group contends the devices are safe. “With respect to the matter of health effects associated with wireless base stations and the use of wireless devices, CTIA and the wireless industry have always been guided by science, and the views of impartial health organizations. The peer-reviewed scientific evidence has overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a public health risk,” said CTIA’s John Walls. James Keller of Lewiston, whose cell phone serves as his only phone, seemed skeptical about warning labels. He said many things may cause cancer but lack scientific evidence to support that belief. Besides, he said, people can’t live without cell phones. www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org
Read MoreCell-Phone Cancer Warning Met with a Shrug
www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org – www.emfnews.org By Peter Svensson A mostly lackadaisical attitude greeted the World Health Organization’s warning that cell phones may be carcinogenic. Some people vowed to get headsets to shield themselves from radiation, but most seemed to either dismiss the warning as too vague, or reason that if the most useful device in modern life poses a slight health risk, then so be it. News last week that an arm of the World Health Organization said cell phones might raise the risk of brain cancer has been greeted by Americans mostly with a shrug of the shoulder — one that’s pinning a cell phone to the ear. Google searches for “cancer” and “cell phones” spiked this week. And some people vowed to get headsets to shield themselves from radiation. But most seemed to either dismiss the warning as too vague, or reason that if the most useful device in modern life poses a slight health risk, then so be it. “I was watching the news about it, and I thought, `I’m already screwed because I’ve been talking on the phone for seven years,’” said Genevieve Chamorro, a 31-year-old New Yorker who was shopping for a phone. www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org www.emfnews.org
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