Cellphone health study on hold
Other nations have released their data on wireless health effects, so why hasn't Canada?
Dec 14, 2008 04:30 AM
Tyler Hamilton
Business Reporter
It's supposed to be the mother of all studies into cellphones and their potential link to head cancers, a definitive report that the multibillion-dollar wireless industry has partially funded.
But the published analysis of the 13-country Interphone study is two years late and likely to be delayed further as the more than 50 scientists involved bicker over how to interpret the results, knowing full well that any hint at health risks would have a profound impact on the industry.
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http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/553500
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In conjunction with http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5387263/, also see
Principal Investigators of Interphone Study Groups
http://www.microwavenews.com/docs/BI.Interphone.pdf
Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
&
Professor
The Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Interphone
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=health+risk
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Johansson
Dec 14, 2008 04:30 AM
Tyler Hamilton
Business Reporter
It's supposed to be the mother of all studies into cellphones and their potential link to head cancers, a definitive report that the multibillion-dollar wireless industry has partially funded.
But the published analysis of the 13-country Interphone study is two years late and likely to be delayed further as the more than 50 scientists involved bicker over how to interpret the results, knowing full well that any hint at health risks would have a profound impact on the industry.
Read More...
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/553500
--------
In conjunction with http://omega.twoday.net/stories/5387263/, also see
Principal Investigators of Interphone Study Groups
http://www.microwavenews.com/docs/BI.Interphone.pdf
Olle Johansson, assoc. prof.
The Experimental Dermatology Unit
Department of Neuroscience
Karolinska Institute
171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
&
Professor
The Royal Institute of Technology
100 44 Stockholm
Sweden
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Interphone
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=health+risk
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=cancer
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Johansson
Starmail - 14. Dez, 13:39