“Findings about long term effects delayed by 10 years”

Rainer Frentzel-Beyme, environmental physician at the University of Bremen (Germany), has lamented the tight links between the mobile operators and the government. An independent research of the effects of mobile radiation was therefore hardly possible and delayed by more than 10 years. “The state authorities are so closely linked with the operators that I cannot distinguish between them any more”, said Frentzel-Beyme in an interview with de.internet.com. Although he had been invited as an expert to attend several hearings in federal state parliaments and also in the German parliament (Bundestag), these had only served to vent pressures. Consequences such as a moratorium for the installation of new antennae as it had been introduced in Switzerland, France and Spain or the allocation of significant funding for more research had never followed, according to the professor.

At the moment, he works on a study of the effects of electromagnetic radiation on children. The study had initially been delayed. “After we had applied for funding for this study, we were told the subject matter was irrelevant according to a survey of other scientists”, said Frentzel-Breyme. Then, the study was commissioned from a different team, which had already previously published findings in favour of the mobile operators. “This really leads to the question how independent science can be if such explicit selection takes place”, he continued.

“Real independence requires that state funding for research should be totally independent from industry money. Since the Mobile Telecommunications Research Programme is half financed by the mobile operators and they have shown to be able to veto the allocation of funding, the course is already set against serious objective projects”, Frentzel-Bayme said. This tendency has been evident since the beginning of the 90s.”My first application to the operators to use the statistics of the German Cancer Research Centre (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum) to conduct an epidemiological study to comparatively examine 10% of the 800,000 registered C-Net (analogue) users versus D-Net (GSM) users, had been refused first by the operator Mannesmann and later also by the German Research Group for Mobile Telecommunications (Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk)”, he said.

Neither had the German Research Group (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft-DFG) been prepared to fund the study which had been conceived in 1993. “This delayed any findings with regards to long term effects by 10 years”, lamented the scientist.

When in 2002 a mobile mast was installed in Flachsmeer, a small community in Friesland, north Germany, the environmental physician hoped to examine the sleep disturbances of the local residents. Mannesmann (nowadays Vodaphone) refused, however, to switch off the installation as it had been previously agreed when the experiment was planned, the expert declared. In spite of their initial agreement, German Telecom was later no longer prepared to support the study either. “Telecom had initially been interested in this methodologically impeccably planned study, but later seemed to be forced to withdraw from it, and withheld the funding it had promised publicly during a residents meeting”, said the expert.

Friday, 24.03.2006

Source:

http://de.internet.com/index.php?id=2042126&section=Homepage&ff=0#cm

Translated by Andrea Klein


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

The Chairman of the Russian Health Authorities, Gennadi Onishenko, published research results in the government publication Rossiskaya Gazetta, according to which mobile phones are particularly dangerous for children. He said:’… if a child uses a mobile phone for only two minutes, the biochemical activities of the child remains unstable for two hours.’

Furthermore, Hungarian research results had shown that the use of a mobile phone in adolescence increased the risk to develop a brain tumor later in life. He also added that mobile phones could cause sleeplessness, loss of memory as well as high blood pressure and that carrying them close to the body was dangerous to health. He recommended that children, pregnant women and car drivers with pace makers should not use them.

Source: FGF-Infoline, 10.02.2005

http://omega.twoday.net/stories/520546/


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Translated by Andrea Klein

Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2006 Mar 16; [Epub ahead of print]

Hardell L, Carlberg M, Hansson Mild K.

Department of Oncology, University Hospital, 701 85, Orebro, Sweden.

Objectives: To study the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk for malignant brain tumours.

Methods: Two case-control studies on malignant brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003 included answers from 905 (90%) cases and 2,162 (89%) controls aged 20-80 years. We present pooled analysis of the results in the two studies.

Results: Cumulative lifetime use for >2,000 h yielded for analogue cellular phones odds ratio (OR)=5.9, 95% confidence interval (CI)=2.5-14, digital cellular phones OR=3.7, 95% CI=1.7-7.7, and for cordless phones OR=2.3, 95% CI=1.5-3.6. Ipsilateral exposure increased the risk for malignant brain tumours; analogue OR=2.1, 95% CI=1.5-2.9, digital OR=1.8, 95% CI=1.4-2.4, and cordless OR=1.7, 95% CI=1.3-2.2. For high-grade astrocytoma using >10 year latency period analogue phones yielded OR=2.7, 95% CI=1.8-4.2, digital phones OR=3.8, 95% CI=1.8-8.1, and cordless phones OR=2.2, 95% CI=1.3-3.9. In the multivariate analysis all phone types increased the risk. Regarding digital phones OR=3.7, 95% CI=1.5-9.1 and cordless phones OR=2.1, 95% CI=0.97-4.6 were calculated for malignant brain tumours for subjects with first use use <20 years of age, higher than in older persons.

Conclusion: Increased risk was obtained for both cellular and cordless phones, highest in the group with >10 years latency period.

PMID: 16541280 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16541280&query_hl=2&itool=pubmed_docsum

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http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/hardell_study_march_2006.pdf

Informant: Eileen O'Connor

This is the audio-video on dramatic increase in children's brain tumours. Makes a very somber report.

Imelda


The wonder of electronic communication has delivered us this video, its brief and to the point. If the connection does not work by clicking here then copy it to your web browser address bar as below. Play this, its a news item, not propaganda, if it won't play just put it on the address bar of your web browser and if you have a videoplayer installed it will, its worth it.

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http://www.emf-health.com/video2/AUSTRALIANEWS1_broadband.wmv

Remember what the US Brain Tumour statistical expert, Lloyd Morgan has said:

"Thank you in advance for your time and attention in this important matter. I fear, but hope that I am wrong, that we are at an historical moment, watching the tide recede prior to a health emergency tsunami that is poised to drown us in future health tragedies of unknown dimensions."

Prescient? Or just predicting? Alarmist? A common sense extrapolation of contemporary figures? Kids and mobiles eh? Huh.

Do we allow them to play in the traffic or on cliff edges because they want to?

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Dear Hans: This is probably quite an important paper because it explains that ELF's can inhibit or stimulate depending on condition of the cells.

I have been searching and searching for some sort of info regarding how it is determined strength of field to be applied in regard to healing a broken bone and also how they know to wait a certain amount of time before having person apply the EMF stimulator (or whatever the name of equipment is) after initial use and so on.

Obviously in the case of a break that isn't healing, the medical profession most likely applies past experience and "educated guesses" followed by X-rays to determine need for additional EMF stimulation.

This is the first time I have ever seen a reference that includes both inhibition of cell growth and stimulation of cell growth.

Take care - Joanne

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Betreff: ELF...effects on cell growth re inhibit...may stimulate or inhib depend on cells
Von: JCMPelican@aol.com
Datum: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 01:31:02 EST

Mutat Res. 2001 Jun 27;493(1-2):55-66.
ELF magnetic field affects proliferation of SPD8/V79 Chinese hamster cells but does not interact with intrachromosomal recombination.

Olsson G, Belyaev IY, Helleday T, Harms-Ringdahl M.

Department of Genetic and Cellular Toxicology, Stockholm University, Svante Arrhenius vag 16-18, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. gunilla.olsson@genetics.su.se

Extremely low-frequency (ELF) magnetic fields have previously been shown to affect conformation of chromatin, cell proliferation, and calcium metabolism. Possible mutagenic and carcinogenic effects of ELF have also been discussed and tested. In this study, intrachromosomal recombination in the hprt gene after exposure to ELF magnetic field was investigated using the SPD8 recombination assay. SPD8 cells, derived from V79 Chinese hamster cells were exposed to ELF at a specific combination of static and ELF magnetic fields, that has been proven to have effects on chromatin conformation in several cell types. The genotoxic agent camptothecin (CPT) was used either as a positive control or simultaneously with ELF. We also analysed the effect of ELF and CPT on chromatin conformation with the anomalous viscosity time dependence (AVTD) technique, cell growth kinetics, and cell survival with clonogenic assay. DNA fragmentation was analysed by pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). ELF did not induce recombination alone, neither did ELF modify the recombinogenic effect of CPT. Although, there was no effect on cell survival in response to ELF exposure, inhibition of cell growth was observed. On the other hand, ELF exposure partly counteracted the growth inhibition seen with CPT. The data suggest that ELF exposure may stimulate or inhibit cell growth depending on the state of the cells. Although, ELF did not induce recombination, a weak but statistically significant DNA fragmentation comparable with CPT-induced fragmentation was observed with PFGE 48h after exposure to ELF.

PMID: 11516715 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

http://tinyurl.com/ghnq6

Exposure of rat brain to 915 MHz GSM microwaves induces changes in gene expression but not double stranded DNA breaks or effects on chromatin conformation.

Belyaev IY, Koch CB, Terenius O, Roxstrom-Lindquist K, Malmgren LO, H Sommer W, Salford LG, Persson BR.

Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Toxicology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.

We investigated whether exposure of rat brain to microwaves (MWs) of global system for mobile communication (GSM) induces DNA breaks, changes in chromatin conformation and in gene expression. An exposure installation was used based on a test mobile phone employing a GSM signal at 915 MHz, all standard modulations included, output power level in pulses 2 W, specific absorption rate (SAR) 0.4 mW/g. Rats were exposed or sham exposed to MWs during 2 h. After exposure, cell suspensions were prepared from brain samples, as well as from spleen and thymus. For analysis of gene expression patterns, total RNA was extracted from cerebellum. Changes in chromatin conformation, which are indicative of stress response and genotoxic effects, were measured by the method of anomalous viscosity time dependencies (AVTD). DNA double strand breaks (DSBs) were analyzed by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Effects of MW exposure were observed on neither conformation of chromatin nor DNA DSBs. Gene expression profiles were obtained by Affymetrix U34 GeneChips representing 8800 rat genes and analyzed with the Affymetrix Microarray Suite (MAS) 5.0 software. In cerebellum from all exposed animals, 11 genes were upregulated in a range of 1.34-2.74 fold and one gene was downregulated 0.48-fold (P < .0025). The induced genes encode proteins with diverse functions including neurotransmitter regulation, blood-brain barrier (BBB), and melatonin production. The data shows that GSM MWs at 915 MHz did not induce PFGE-detectable DNA double stranded breaks or changes in chromatin conformation, but affected expression of genes in rat brain cells. Bioelectromagnetics (c) 2006 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

PMID: 16511873 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=16511873&dopt=Abstract

Studie: Exposition des Ratten-Gehirns bei 915 MHz GSM-Mikrowellen induziert Veränderungen bei der Genexpression, aber nicht bei den DNA-Doppelstrangbrüchen oder bei der Chromatin-Konformation

In dieser Studie sollte untersucht werden, ob eine Exposition des Ratten-Gehirns bei GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication)-Mikrowellen DNA-Strangbrüche, Veränderungen in der Chromatin-Konformation und in der Genexpression hervorruft. Die Autoren berichten, dass GSM-Mikrowellen bei 915 MHz keine DNA-Doppelstrangbrüche oder Veränderungen in der Chromatin-Konformation hervorrufen, aber dass sie die Genexpression in Gehirn-Zellen der Ratte beeinflussen. Bibliographie: Belyaev et al. Bioelectromagnetics. 2006 Mar 1; [Epub ahead of print].

http://www.emf-portal.de/viewer.php?l=g&aid=13430

Aus: FGF-Infoline vom 09.03.2006

Der Forschungsgemeinschaft Funk e.V. (FGF), gehören alle deutschen Mobilfunkbetreiber an.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/electrical_hypersensitivity_info_research_refs_resources_experiences.htm
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/how_wireless_technology_may_impact_child_development.DOC