It is good to see even one more person looking into this issue. To get a solid information base started for yourself, I'd recommend the following:

First, I suggest you peruse the articles published in the March 2005 Univ. of Washington alumni magazine COLUMNS, especially the one entitled "Wake-up Call", an interview with biophysicist Dr. Henry Lai about his research into the biological effects of wireless radiation at the U of W:

http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/march05/wakeupcall01.html
http://tinyurl.com/3wne3

Also listen to the informative interview with Olle Johansson, MD, associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, who discusses long term studies showing the adverse health effects of exposure to radio frequency radiation from wireless technologies.

http://home.comcast.net/~es_info/#electrosmogkpfa
http://tinyurl.com/occ3d

Another excellent source of information is Microwave News:
http://www.microwavenews.com

A book that can also shed a lot of light on the topic and set the stage for further investigation is:

"Cell Phones: Invisible Hazard in the Wireless Age" by Dr. George Carlo and Martin Schram; ISBN 0-7867-0960-X; publ. Carroll & Graf. Dr. Carlo was involved with a major US research project on wireless health effects.

Regards,

Beau

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/health/sfl-rxcell01feb01,0,7105692.story

By Nancy McVicar

South Florida Sun-Sentinel Health Writer

Posted February 1 2006
(AP/Damian Dovarganes)

CELL PHONES & YOUR HEALTH

Adding new fuel to the debate over cell phone safety, three European research groups in separate studies have found an increased risk of brain tumors in people who have used the phones for 10 years or more.

Two of the studies found a correlation between the tumor's location and the side of the head where people reported they held the phone. One also suggests the greatest risk is in people who began using the phones before age 20, but researchers said the study group was small and more research should be done.

Two of the studies, one in England and one in Germany, are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organization to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by cell phones.

Both studies found an increased risk of glioma, an often deadly brain cancer, in people who had used cell phones 10 years or more.

An earlier Interphone study, reported in October 2004 by researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumor called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of cell phone use, but not for glioma. "When you put the three large Interphone results together -- the German, English and Swedish -- they tell a story, and it begs for attention," said Louis Slesin, publisher of Microwave News, who has been reporting on the health effects of such radiation for two decades.

John Walls, vice president of public affairs for CTIA, The Wireless Association, a cell phone industry trade group in Washington, D.C., said the increase in glioma in people who had used the phones more than 10 years was "statistically insignificant," and said there is no cause for concern.

The German study, conducted by Joachim Schu[e]z and colleagues at the University of Mainz, was published online by the American Journal of Epidemiology. The researchers compared a group of 749 brain tumor patients with 1,494 similar people who had not used cell phones and found a doubling of the risk of gliomas after 10 years of use.

They said numbers of people in the study who had used the phones for 10 years was small, and the findings need to be confirmed by other studies.

The British researchers compared a group of 966 brain tumor patients with a group of 1,716 healthy patients who had not used cell phones. They found a 20 percent increase in cancers among long-term users, but no overall increased risk in people who used cell phones.

The study, funded largely by the cell phone industry and published online by the British Medical Journal, found a significantly increased risk for tumors that developed on the same side of the head where patients said they most often held the phone. But lead researcher Patricia McKinney said that finding probably was due to many patients not accurately recalling which ear they'd used most of the time.

Critics said conclusions drawn by the researchers were "highly misleading" and might give cell phone users a false sense of security.

George Carlo, who headed the American cell phone industry's 1990s research program, said the findings indicate a 24 percent increase in tumors among people who used the phone on the same side as the tumor.

Alasdair Philips, director of Powerwatch, an independent watchdog group in England, also said the claim of no association of risk is unjustified because the study excluded half the people who developed gliomas because they died before they could be interviewed.

McKinney, an epidemiologist at the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, said "we have no reason to believe the findings were affected by the [exclusion of half the cases]."

In an e-mail to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, she defended the decision to discount the high number of cases reported on the same side of the head where the phone was held.

A third study, in the February edition of International Journal of Oncology, found an increased risk of acoustic neuromas in long-term users. Dr. Lennart Hardell and colleagues at Orebro University in Sweden analyzed the cases of 1,254 people diagnosed with benign brain tumors between 1997 and 2003, and compared them with a similar group of 2,162 people who had not used cell phones.

They found that people who used analog cell phones starting 15 years before diagnosis developed acoustic neuromas at a rate almost four times higher than the comparison group.

Walls, of the CTIA, said he had not seen the Swedish study, but questioned the validity of the findings and the researchers' study design.

An analysis late last year by Dr. Henry Lai, who heads the Bioelectromagnetics Research Laboratory at the University of Washington in Seattle, said of 271 laboratory or clinical studies done in recent years, about 60 percent have shown a biological effect in cells or animals exposed to radio frequency radiation.

Nancy McVicar can be reached at nmcvicar@sun-sentinel.com or 954-356-4593.


Cell phones and radiation

Because questions remain about the long-term safety of cell phones, users who want to reduce their exposure to radio frequency radiation can follow these strategies:

* Use a landline phone when one is available.

* Keep cell phone calls short.

* Don't carry a cell phone in a pocket.

* Use a hands-free headset or use a speakerphone so that the phone is not placed against the head.

* When using a hands-free headset, allow the wire to fall naturally down the torso to the phone clipped at the waist, which allows any radiation to be absorbed in small amounts along the body rather than concentrated in the head.

SOURCES: MOTOROLA, U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION, NATIONAL RADIOLOGICAL PROTECTION BOARD, UNITED KINGDOM; VERUM FOUNDATION, GERMANY -- NANCY MCVICAR

Copyright 2006, Sun-Sentinel Co. & South Florida Interactive Inc.


Informant: Gotemf

Would you stick your head in a microwave oven?

http://openpr.com/news/5356
http://at-de.i-newswire.com/pr15550.html

"Would you put your head in a Microwave Oven"

New book on microwave radiation & health

I have not yet read the new book by Gerald Goldberg but what he says about his findings reminds me of the Swedish book “New Diagnosis” (1999) by Professor Robert Olin which unfortunately for most of us, was never published in English. After Gerald’s notice (below) I have copied and pasted some brief exerpts from Olin’s book which seems to back up Goldberg’s viewpoints.

Don Maisch


Book notice from Gerald Goldberg MD:

Hello, I am a medical doctor and researcher in the US. I have just published a book on microwave radiation. Check it out at:
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~36093.aspx

From the above website:

Would you stick your head in a microwave oven? Well would you? Of course not.

Technology has transformed this planet into an open microwave system with its satellite transmissions. This book examines what the health consequences are. This book simply points out that the gradual rise in illness across broad geographic areas are an early indicator of microwave illness, independently of what the experts lead you to believe. The handwriting is already on the wall and most of know that something is wrong. This book discusses in simple terms the effects of microwave radiation on the human body. I utilize dosimetry studies done by the US Air Force, which outline in clear terms what organs of the body are most vulnerable to cumulative microwave exposure. I outline the mechanisms by which slow exposure is masquerading as various illnesses across this country.

We are on the verge of a health care crisis which threatens to bankrupt our society and health care system. Whether we like to consider it or not the planet that we are living on has been transformed into an open microwave system.

In this book I examine the common link between microwave radiation and seemingly unrelated illnesses. The book demonstrates that the rising incidence of certain illnesses and cancers across broad geographic regions parallels the increasing rise in exposure and use of microwave radiation.

This book is a common sense approach to the subject which is presented in a clear language that the laymen can understand. Also it is liberally referenced from the scientific literature. The book is designed to be generally informative as well as a reference source for the average reader. Additionally I have provided a wealth of resources that have been shown to be beneficial to offset the consequences of excess microwave exposure.

About the Author

I am a medical internist with over 30 years of clinical experience. Additionally I have been researching the biomedical literature from a traditional and holistic perspective for the last 15 years. I have training in herbology, Chinese medicine, nutritional approaches to health and other modalities. I have done extensive research on the causality of disease and its relationship to environmental factors as will as researching approaches to deal with these issues. I have been a radio show host involved in sharing information with the public on alternative health issues and perspectives in the NYC area for the past 5 years and have been actively involved with a nutritional pharmacy.

This manuscript was written to present the data to the average reader so that they could judge the issue for themselves.

The health consequences from continuous low level exposure from microwave radiation can be catastrophic. The transmission of microwave transmission can be handled in a safe and effective manner to provide for global communication without affecting the overall health of our planet.

The book starts by examining dosimetry which shows which parts of the body are most sensitive to microwave radiation based on studies done by our Armed Forces. Dosimetry is also predictive of the pattern of injury that one would expect to find.

The second chapter explains how microwave radiation produces disease. It examines the mechanisms of disease production in living systems. It also explains how microwave injury manifests as specific organ system dysfunction, be it neurological, behavioral, immune, cancer etc.

The third chapter links the rise of radiation against the simultaneous rise of certain illnesses in society. It demonstrates through the use of graphs that the parallel and symmetrical rise of certain illnesses across broad geographic areas reflects common force acting equally on all these regions. The graphs also demonstrate that it is the rate of increase not the absolute number of cases in a given region that is important. It is important to emphasize that microwave radiation is not the only cause of disease. It is potentially one of the few common links that unite large segments of our population to recreate and produce similar patterns of illness in widely separated geographic locations.

Microwave injury can also contribute to other patterns of illness. In the fourth chapter, under medical equivalents, I have grouped the common names that are attributed to illnesses by organ systems. If common illnesses are examined from the perspective of simultaneous parallel geographic increase than the influence of microwave injury can be discerned.

To purchase a copy simply go to the site, http://www.authorhouse.com and type in my name, Gerald Goldberg, under the author post.

Sincerly

G. Goldberg, MD


“New Diagnosis” (Swedish only)
by Robert Olin

The report “New Diagnosis” was written by Robert Olin, MD and Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine. The report has been prepared on behalf of a Parliamentary Commission appointed by the Swedish government. It was published in October of 1999.

This report was commissioned as a result of ongoing research carried out by several organisations, including the Karolinska Institute, The Swedish National Institute of Occupational Health, the Swedish Union of Clerical and Technical Employees in Industry, Lule College and Institute of Technology, Lund University and the Orebro Medical Centre in Sweden.

Per Segerbach from Sweden sent me some brief translations from the report as follows:

From the back page of the book:

“In medical care, the research community and among decision makers the attitude versus the “new diagnoses” have often been blocked by out-of-date views and prejudices.”

From the Summary chapter of the book:

. . .”But it is also true that living conditions for people in a highly developed country like Sweden, have changed considerably during the last century, compared to earlier centuries. The “exploding” technical development all the way from phone and radio use into the current “communication society” as well as the multitude of new chemical products and physical technologies, for most people leads to very different living conditions.”

“This document is founded on the belief that for many “new diagnoses” the common symptoms (see below) have existed for a long time, but that the conditions have become more visible, e.g. due to the above mentioned changes in the society. In addition, it is likely that the true occurrence have increased, which may hypothetically depend on the dramatic increase over the last decades in daily sensory stimulus and chemical and physiological environmental influence.”

“The document presents in brief, a number of “new diagnoses” and in chapter 14 especially, symptoms that are more or less common, namely tiredness, sleep disorders, vegetative and neuro-cognitive symptoms. Pain and disturbed “psychological equilibrium” as well as symptoms from mucus are also common.”

. . . “In the same chapter an overall hypothesis about the biological mechanism is discussed that might explain the majority of the “new diagnosis” -conditions - but naturally not all, because in a minority of the cases it is likely to be purely psychological circumstances or somatic diseases that are the cause of the symptoms.”

“The document critically reviews the role and position of psychiatry in the treatment and attitudes towards the patients suffering from “new diagosis” -disorders.”

The hypothesis relates to and enlarges the theory/hypothesis that the Swedish research group Rönnbäck-Hansson formulated regarding defects/damage in the astrogliacell membrane caused by disturbances in the transport through the membrane of e.g. the important energy- and signal substance glutamate.”

END

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=390

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Dr Goldberg's brilliant book on microwave radiation
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2195003/

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Comments on the Goldberg / Olin books
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=391

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Dr. Gerald Goldberg interview link is now on w-a-r-t web site http://www.w-a-r-t.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Pete

Dr. Gerald Goldberg interview 19.06.2006
http://www.mast-victims.org/resources/audio/dr-goldberg-19-06-2006.mp3

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Microwave oven info
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/491151/

Electromagnetic pollution of the environment
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2955273/

EMF an emerging healthcare crisis
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3054250/

Where have our friends the birds gone?
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/3025317/

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http://omega.twoday.net/topics/Mikrowellen/
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=sparrow
http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Goldberg

Hardell et al. Risk of Acoustic Neuroma and Meningioma from Cellphone Use

Lloyd Morgan has sent his commentary on the Hardell et al. “Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on the use of cellular and cordless telephones and the risk of benign brain tumours diagnosed during 1997-2003;”INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY 28: 509-518, 2006.

Unfortunately this list does not allow me to send on the tables, etc but following is the text. Please contact me if you want the Word file.

Don Maisch


Commentary on a Study of the Risk of Brain Tumors from Cellular and Cordless Phone Use

Hardell et al., Pooled analysis of two case-control studies on the use of cellular and cordless telephone and the risk of benign brain tumours during 1997-2003; International Journal of Oncology 28: 509-518, 2006

This study combined the results of two previously published papers. The total number of brain tumor cases participating in the study was 1,429. The total number of controls was 2162 matched to the cases by age, sex, SEI (Social Economic Index, a measure of wealth), year of diagnosis and region within Sweden. Cases were diagnosed between 1997 and 2003. The percentage of the Swedish population that used cellphones during this period was around 30% in 1997 and grew to over 95.5% by 2003.

The study’s main finding was the risk of acoustic neuroma. It also reported a risk of meningiomas. Interestingly, among the ways they examined these risks was to look at the combinations of phone types that were used. Here is a summary of these findings:

Phone Type Acoustic Neuroma Meningioma Risk % Confidence Risk % Confidence Analog + digital cellphones 3.3 99.99990% 1.3 87% Analog cellphone + cordless phone 3.9 99.999998% 1.7 99.6% Digital cellphone + cordless phone 1.6 97.5% 1.2 80% Analog + digital cellphone + cordless phone 4.1 99.99994% 1.7 98.6% Any combination 1.5 99.3% 1.5 99.3% Bold indicates a statistically significant risk (>95% confidence).

Of particular interest is that the authors’ reporte the only study to do so to date risk of acoustic neuromas for >10-15 years (risk=2.9, 99.7% confidence) and for >15 years (risk=3.8, 99.3% confidence). The graph below shows the percentage of an increased risk of acoustic neuromas by years from cellphone use.

Unlike the Interphone series of cellphone studies, which had a large proportion of controls who refused to participate in the study, this study had nearly identical participation rates between cases (87.8%) and controls (88.7%). Such high and similar participation rates minimize problems that can cause an underestimation of risk.

In contrast, the Interphone series of studies on the risk of brain tumors from cellphone use has consistently had poor participation rates. For example, a recently published UK Interphone study had participation rates of 51% for glioma cases (30% had died by the time they were contacted) and 45% for the participating controls (29% refused to participate). [1]

As mentioned, the problem with poor participation rates is that selection bias is likely to cause an underestimation of risk. In the UK study, with 30% of the glioma cases dying before they were able to participate, the effect was to strongly underestimate the risk of high-grade glioma from cellphone use. Similarly, with only 45% of the controls participating there is a strong likelihood of a selection bias problem that would underestimate the risk of brain tumors from cellphone use. Such selection bias would result if the participating controls used cellphones more frequently than non-participating controls.


References:

1. Hepworth et al., Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: case-control study; British Medical Journal, 19 January 2006
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/bmj.38720.687975.55v1 .

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=387

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Mobile phone use and risk of glioma in adults: case-control study

http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/abstract/332/7546/883
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/eletters/332/7546/883#127420

"It should be noted that one of the authors (Dr Swerdlow) is a member of ICNIRP, a German foundation on this issue that does not recognize any cancerogenesis from microwave exposure. ICNIRP seems to be a closed organisation that elects its own members and without full disclosure how it is financed. Membership might be a conflict of interest".

Iris Atzmon

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On the infallibility of ICNIRP
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/876048/

Breast cancer and EMFs: The spin begins

It is no surprise to the readers on this list that it is self evident that as evidence for a negative EMF bioeffect becomes stronger, the vested interests threatened by that evidence will come out in force to counter it. In the case of breast cancer and the melatonin effect, the self proclaimed experts from ICNIRP and their minions (such as the UK’s HPA and AGNIR) have launched an attack in a new report countering the mounting evidence that exposure to environmental 50-60 Hz magnetic fields is a risk factor for breast cancer. ICNIRP claims to be independent of power industry influence and its advice based on the best of science but it will be shown in future messages to this list that the power industry has DIRECT influence and a commanding measure of control over ICNIRP’s (and WHO) decision making process. And thus, that control extends to most Western radiation protection agencies through ICNIRP’s hegemony and unquestioned obedience by national authorities.

So stay tuned! These messages will be archived under category
”Breast cancer and EMFs”:
http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/?cat=41&submit=GO!

Don Maisch


The following is from Microwave News, November 23, 2005.

http://www.microwavenews.com/fromthefield.html#12mGx7

When Enough Is Never Enough: A Reproducible EMF Effect at 12 mG It’s happened again.

November 23, 2005

It’s not supposed to happen at all. But now it has happened seven times in research labs on three continents.

Even so, the news of the latest replication of a weak, clearly non-thermal electromagnetic field (EMF) effect was met with silence. No one issued a press release. No one rushed to try to explain “the impossible.” No one wondered about the policy implications.

And if Rainer Girgert of Germany’s University of Heidelberg, the lead author of this latest replication, meets with the same fate as his six predecessors, he may soon lose his research grants —or perhaps worse, as happened to Robert Liburdy who first saw this same effect years ago.

Writing in the November 4 issue of Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Girgert reports that a 12mG (1.2µT) magnetic field can block the ability of tamoxifen to control the growth of human breast cancer cells.

For more than 20 years, breast cancer patients have been given tamoxifen after surgery and chemo- and/or radiotherapy to help stave off a recurrence. It is only one of a handful of drugs that is prescribed for preventing breast cancer. Just a few days ago, less than two weeks after Girgert’s paper was published, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) announced that its long-term follow-up study showed beyond reasonable doubt that tamoxifen can indeed prevent breast cancer among women at high risk of developing the disease.

Girgert was working with cells in petri dishes but it’s easy to extrapolate his findings to real-world situations. Consider, for instance, what might happen to a recovering breast cancer patient who is taking tamoxifen, if her job forces her to stand in front of an office copying machine all day, or if she sits next to a wall which conceals an electrical transformer or even if she blow dries her hair every morning.

Each day, over one million American women have an average daily magnetic field exposure of over 10mG. Many more spend an hour or longer in such fields every day.

Liburdy, then at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, was the first to show this same EMF effect with both tamoxifen and with melatonin back in the early 1990s (see MWN, J/A92). (Melatonin can also keep breast cancer cells in check.) Over the next few years, four other American research groups were able to repeat Liburdy’s experiments (see MWN, M/A96 and J/A98).

Then in 2001, Masami Ishido at Japan’s National Institute for Environmental Studies took Liburdy’s discovery a major step forward. After once again showing that breast cancer cells treated with melatonin would resume growing when exposed to power-frequency EMFs, Ishido explained how the fields could do this. He found that the magnetic field disrupts the cells’ signaling system —their internal communications network, which determines how they respond to their environment.

Ishido had done much more than simply replicate the work of five other labs. He had given credibility to what most others had dismissed as an anomalous experimental finding.

In the process, Ishido also challenged one of the central tenets of mainstream toxicology: Less is better and more is worse. The EMF effect he observed at 12mG was pretty much the same as the one he saw when he used a field a hundred times higher —at 1G. In some later, as yet unpublished work, Ishido found indications that the effect was even stronger at the lower EMF dose than the higher one.

Ishido may have been uncertain about such an inverted dose-response relationship, but Girgert has no doubts. “Surprisingly, at 1G the effect on tamoxifen inhibition was clearly lower than at 100mG,” he writes in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

“Girgert’s paper is very important,” says Carl Blackman, a research scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Blackman, who led one of the four groups that repeated the original Liburdy work with both tamoxifen and melatonin, points out that the Japanese and German work represent more than simple replication. “Ishido extended Liburdy’s finding by investigating changes with techniques from molecular biology, while Girgert looked at the effect at different tamoxifen concentrations and EMF exposure levels,” he said. “Girgert has filled in some critical missing pieces and the 12 mG effect now rests on a much firmer foundation.”

After Ishido’s work appeared in 2001, a number of leading melatonin scientists, including David Blask and Richard Stevens, told Microwave News that they were now convinced that the 12mG effect was real and would now be taken seriously (see MWN, S/O01).

They were wrong.

For instance, this summer the World Health Organization’s EMF project completed what is billed as an exhaustive review of the scientific literature on EMF health and biological effects (see September 22 entry below). The 365-page draft document includes more than 1,000 references —yet, somehow, the papers by Liburdy, Blackman and Ishido documenting the 12mG effect on melatonin and tamoxifen were all left out.

Nor have any of these three researchers been able to continue their work on EMFs.

In 1999, Liburdy was drummed out of the EMF profession on what many consider to be trumped-up charges of scientific misconduct. (At issue was a set of unrelated experiments.) He settled the case without admitting any “wrongdoing” but was nevertheless barred from receiving federal research funds for three years (see MWN, J/A99). Liburdy has, at least for the present, abandoned his career as a research scientist.

Blackman and others at the U.S. EPA are effectively barred from doing any more EMF experiments. EPA managers have made a habit of looking the other way whenever the EMF-health question is raised. No one at the agency need fear Congressional oversight. Many times over the years, the Congress has moved to eliminate any funds targeted for EMF research.

Ishido is in a similar predicament. In a recent e-mail message, Ishido told Microwave News that there is “no hope” that his EMF project, which has been stalled for years, will be revived.

Both Liburdy and Blackman have not given up. They are still optimistic that someone will be given the opportunity to get to the bottom of this 12 mG effect. “We were committed to pursuing these findings,” Liburdy told us in early November. “The mechanistic research would have been fascinating.” Blackman believes that there is more at stake than biophysical theories. “If we understand what’s going on here, we might well find better ways to treat breast cancer,” he said.

Girgert is their last best hope.

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=372

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One in nine women in the UK now risk contracting breast cancer during their lifetime, what a scandal

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/breast_cancer_what_a_scandal.doc

Informant: Eileen O'Connor

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http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=Breast+cancer

http://at-de.i-newswire.com/pr15422.html
http://openpr.de/news/76808

Die als Attachement beigefügte Information kann unter Quellenangabe und textlich unverändert verbreitet werden.

http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/widerspruch_presseaussendung_v._4.2.06.doc

MfG

Dr. Erwin Tripes


Einspruch der Österreichische Ärztekammer zur Verabschiedung der Vornorm ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8850 vom 1.8.2005


ÖSTERREICHISCHE ÄRZTEKAMMER
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Österreichischer Verband für Elektrotechnik (ÖVE) Eschenbachgasse 9, 1010 Wien zHd Frau Mag. Zbiral per e-mail s.zbiral@ove.at

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Unser Zeichen: ak
Ihr Schreiben vom:
Ihr Zeichen:
Wien, am 29.September 2005

Betrifft: Einspruch der Österreichische Ärztekammer zur Verabschiedung der Vornorm ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8850 vom 1.8.2005.

Sehr geehrter Herr Dr. Grün, sehr geehrte Frau Mag. Zbiral!

Die Österreichische Ärztekammer erhebt Einspruch gegen die Verabschiedung des vorliegenden Entwurfs der Vornorm ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8850 vom 1.8.2005 Der Einspruch wird wie folgt begründet:

1. Unter Punkt 1 Anwendungsbereich ist der Zweck der Norm wie folgt definiert: „Zweck der vorliegenden Bestimmung ist es, Grenzwerte für die Exposition durch elektrische, magnetische und elektromagnetische Felder (EMF) festzulegen, deren Einhaltung Schutz gegen bekannte schädliche Effekte auf die Gesundheit bietet. Das Schutzziel soll durch die Vorgabe von Basisgrenzwerten und Referenzwerten erreicht werden.“ Nun sind die im Entwurf definierten Basisgrenzwerte und Referenzwerte zum Teil um Größenordnungen über jenen Expositionen, bei denen in der Literatur in substantiellen Umfang und Qualität eine Reihe von schädliche Effekten auf die Gesundheit, oder besser gesagt Krankheiten dokumentiert sind. Es stellt sich die Frage, welchen Wert ein Dokument hat, das nachweislich die bestehende Evidenz negiert.

2. Eine wissenschaftliche Diskussion über fachlich und sachlich notwendige alternative Grenzwertkonzepte war für die Österreichische Ärztekammer in der Arbeitsgruppe nicht möglich, da vor der Aufnahme des Vertreters der Österreichischen Ärztekammer eine Orientierung an den Vorschlägen von ICNIRP bereits vor zwei Jahren beschlossen worden war.

3. Das Dokument orientiert sich an den Vorschlägen der ICNIRP aus 1998 und entspricht daher nicht dem Stand der medizinischen Wissenschaften und Erfahrungen. Die Referenzwerte des Dokumentes sind in keiner Weise geeignet den erforderlichen Schutz der individuellen und öffentlichen Gesundheit zu garantieren. Vielmehr besteht Grund zur Annahme, dass Öffentlichkeit und Politik auf ein fachlich unzureichendes Dokument vertrauen und damit erforderliche Maßnahmen zur Expositionsvermeidung und Reduktion unterbleiben.

4. Die IARC stufte im Juni 2001 niederfrequente magnetische Wechselfelder aufgrund der epidemiologischen Evidenz bei kindlichen Leukämien als „possible human carcinogen“ ein. Aufgrund der Bestätigung der karzinogenen Wirkung durch aktuelle Tierversuche [Löscher 2004] ist eine Verschärfung der Einstufung als definitives Karzinogen, wie im Bericht des California Departments of Health vom Juni 2002 angeführt, angezeigt. Risikoerhöhungen bei kindlichen Leukämien wurden etwa bei Mittelwerten von etwa 200 nT (50/60 Hz) gefunden. Die Vornorm ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8850 sieht zum „Schutz“ der Allgemeinbevölkerung einen Referenzwert von 100.000 nT vor.

5. Aktuelle Untersuchungen des REFLEX Projektes zeigen bei verschiedenen Zellen (in vitro) bei Einhaltung der Referenzwerte dieser Vornorm ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8850 sowohl für niederfrequente magnetische Wechselfelder als auch für hochfrequente elektromagnetische Wellen im Frequenzbereich des Mobilfunks unter anderem Einzel- und Doppelstrangbrüche der Chromosomen, also gentoxische Effekte. Diese Ergebnisse werden durch Tierversuche (in vivo) bestätigt und unterstützt.

6. Die ärztliche Erfahrung zeigt, dass immer mehr Menschen bei gewissen umweltbezogenen Feldeinwirkungen mit zum Teil ernsthaften Störungen des Regulationssystems und der Ausbildung von Krankheiten reagieren. Diese Erfahrungen werden durch epidemiologische Untersuchungen unterstützt. Diese Tatsachen werden in der Vornorm ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8850 nicht berücksichtigt.

7. Eine Unterstützung der Vornorm ÖVE/ÖNORM E 8850 wird aus haftungsrechtlichen Überlegungen abgelehnt, da nicht ein Dokument mitgetragen werden kann, das offensichtlich die erforderlichen Schutzerwartungen nicht erfüllt.

8. Aus ärztlicher Sicht benötigen wir in Österreich eine offene, ernsthafte, den Prinzipien der Gesundheit verpflichtete Diskussion mit der Festlegung von verbindlichen Referenzwerten auf einem hohen Schutzniveau. Es wird angeregt eine entsprechende Arbeitsgruppe im Rahmen der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften einzurichten.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

gez. Präs. Dr. Othmar Haas eh., Präsident
Dr. Reiner Brettenthaler, Leiter des Referates Umweltmedizin

No place to hide: Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT

In June 2002 in the journal "No place to hide" we could read that Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA (Spain), Olle JOHANSON (Sweden), Lebrecht von KLITZING (Germany), Gerard HYLAND (England) and Roger SANTINI (France), were under pressures because of their studies on mobile telephony.

Omega see under: http://www.laleva.cc/environment/cellphones.html

The story is not finished!

Please found a message from my friend Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA ("LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT"), who tell us that he is again, under official pressure.

- Doctor Claudio GOMEZ PERRETTA: Email: gomez_cla@gva.es


Amitiés.

Roger.

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LOOKING FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT:

We, the members of the Spanish team who did the work about microwave exposure from GSM base stations and possible health consequences to the surrounding neighbours (*); won´t be able to continue working on this topic after being denied the grant to finance those studies. We had to wait as whichever other research group, a long year until receive recently a very simplistic letter, only four lines from the Health Institute Carlos III (if you wish to write: webmaster@isciii.es) as responsible for the Spanish studies of the Health Ministry at Madrid.

They point out that our team has not sufficient curriculum and experience being the methodology and objectives unclear. But, how can be it true if we are extending the initial study published in an international scientific journal, only to a bigger sample, the former accepted from the scientific community being continuously cited as reference article, as one of the pioneer works in this area.

However and very curiously, this Institute which now cut our wings failed to produce scientific results from some intriguing clusters of malign tumours occurred in several places of Spain, where important wireless structures were build close to children areas, for instance the García-Quintana School of Valladolid (until five diagnosed leukaemia’s in its students under 6 year old ) and other places... thinking only in lacking interest from them to conclude some plausible results: Or, finally summarized in the Spanish proverb, be the gardener’s dog: don’t eating and don’t let others eat.

Yours ,

Dr. Claudio Gómez-Perretta

(*) Navarro, E. A., Segura, J., Portolés, M., and Gómez-Perretta de Mateo, C. 2003. The microwave syndrome: A preliminary study in Spain. Electromagn. Biol. Med. 22: 160-169.

Omega see under:
http://www.buergerwelle.de/pdf/the_microwave_syndrome_a_preliminary_study_in_spain_2003.pdf


Informant: Iris Atzmon

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The study which was not funded
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2180509/



http://omega.twoday.net/search?q=microwave+syndrome

From: Eileen O'Connor
eileen@smokestackltd.co.uk
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:15:56 -0000
Subject: Abstract by Dr John Walker

Please see message received today from Dr Walker, responding to my recent e-mails about Professor Swerdlow.

Eileen O'Connor


Abstract (general) by Dr John Walker CPhys

* Professor Cherry of New Zealand in 2000 made a presentation to the Parliament of Europe on the above subject. During the last few years, experimental data is accumulating at an increasing rate, that verifies his predictions without exception.

* Scientific and Health Truth has also been diverging at an increasing rate from Political and Economic Truth over the last 9 years since ICNIRP (International Committee on Non Ionizing Radiation Protection) made the biggest mistake in scientific history and unconsciously misled the many administrations in the world by choosing guidelines 4.5 million times as high as those chosen by Salzburg (power units). Phones still work in Salzburg.

* Most administrative bodies are weak in science and therefore have no conception of when they have been misled. Since the "he who pays the piper calls the tune" all sub administrations are cautious and unwilling to "rock the boat" or "blow the whistle" especially when high economic yields are concerned.

* The Government's 21 billion pound licence fee from the mobile telephone industry has locked the country into a legalised sustained electromagnetic attack on the population living in the highest field strength areas near a mast, especially in beam patch areas, often ten times the height of the mast away and with a 3 pole mast the patches will be 120 degrees apart. There is a real occurrence of a cancer rate of 3 times normal and 8 years earlier (Naila), and 4 times normal (Netanya) together with the Bamberger study and the Oberfeld/Navarro study which showed an odds ratio of 39 for increased depressive tendencies along with increases of other unspecified illnesses.

* G3 is more penetrative of house walls than GSM. The old radio waves were a nice sinusoidal shape, however G3 waves are very sharp digitally switched to transmit vision signals. "These can swamp the bodies internal signals" and lead to the above data. (Dr David Aldridge)

Recent measurements of melatonin in urine show that microwaves cause an 80% drop in Melatonin which controls our immune system at night. This makes us susceptible to many diseases since our natural defence against cosmic rays is compromised. This applies to all vertebrea.


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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Peer Review gone rotten: AGNIR’s review of breast cancer and EMFs

On Feb 9, 2006 The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR), under the leadership of Professor Anthony Swerdlow (a senior member of ICNIRP and who enjoys a commanding role in influencing the British cancer charities research into cancer) released its latest viewpoint on breast cancer, melatonin and power frequency EMFs. Using an extremely biased review of the science, Swerdlow and crew were able to discount all the evidence to the contrary to come up with a convenient exoneration for the power industry. Watch the WHO and ICNIRP push this as still another independent expert report representing a scientific consensus of the international scientific community.

A very valuable report for the industy as it will be quoted for years in court and planning cases - and who will dare question the experts?

Don Maisch

Press Release

9 February 2006

Power Frequency Electromagnetic Fields, Melatonin and the Risk of Breast Cancer

The independent Advisory Group on Non-Ionising Radiation (AGNIR) today published a report that examines whether electromagnetic fields (EMFs) associated with the supply and use of electricity can influence the risk of breast cancer. Following a thorough review of the published scientific literature, the report concludes that overall the evidence does not support the hypothesis that exposure to EMFs is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer. In addition, EMFs do not appear to affect the production or biological action of the hormone melatonin.

Full report : http://www.hpa.org.uk/publications/2005/rce1/default.htm

Source: http://www.emfacts.com/weblog/index.php?p=383

By Dan Buckley and Tom Prendeville

ONE of the world's leading experts in mobile phone technology has warned that the radiation output from Irish phone masts is at least 100 times too high for safety.

His warning comes as new research reveals that long-term use of mobile phones poses an increased risk of brain cancer.

According to Dr David Aldridge, a scientist who has worked developing microwave technology for the US Government, the international 'safety' limits which Ireland adheres to are out of date and totally flawed.

"What is happening is that the external signals (from mobile phones) are swamping the body's natural internal signals," he said.

This can lead to cancers and a whole range of other serious medical disorders, particularly among children, he said.

"Expose a cell to microwaves from a mast or phone and it interferes with the cell repair process. In the case of young children, the rate of cells dividing in half to form new ones is so fast that you end up with a vast number of what we call mis-repairs."

According to Dr Aldridge, the current international safety standards are over 50 years old and obsolete.

Meanwhile, a new study into the risks associated with using mobile phones has found an increased risk of brain tumours in people who have used them for 10 years or more.

The study, by German researchers, found an increased risk of glioma, an often deadly brain cancer, in people who had used mobile phones for over a decade.

However, a similar study in Britain appears to contradict these findings and concludes that there is no proof that long-term mobile phone use can cause glioma.

Both studies are part of the 13-nation Interphone Study, an effort sanctioned by the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess possible health risks from the radiation emitted by mobile phones.

The German study, conducted by Joachim Schu[e]z and colleagues at the University of Mainz, compared a group of 749 brain tumour patients with 1,494 similar people who had not used mobile phones and found a doubling of the risk of glioma after 10 years of use.

They said the number of people in the study who had used the phones for 10 years was small and the findings need to be confirmed by other studies.

This same 10-year threshold has previously been reported for acoustic neuroma, a benign tumour of the acoustic nerve, by two Swedish teams.

"This result is very difficult to interpret," said Dr Schu[e]z.

"I can only say that it's still an open question whether there is a tumour risk for more than 10 years of use."

The British researchers found no overall increased risk in people who used mobile phones.

Although it revealed a significantly increased risk for tumours that developed on the same side of the head where patients said they most often held the phone, lead researcher Patricia McKinney, an epidemiologist at the Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, said that the finding probably was due to many patients not accurately recalling which ear they had used most.

The Swedish study, conducted by researchers at the Karolinska Institute, found an increased risk for a non-cancerous brain tumour called acoustic neuroma after 10 years of mobile phone use.

Mobile phones: Do's and don'ts

Keep mobile phone conversations short.

Consider using a text message or picture message as an alternative.

Choose a handset with a lower SAR rating, which means it emits less radiation.

Don't hold the phone to your head when you can use a hands-free kit.

Consider using a phone with an external aerial.

Limit the amount of time that children use mobile phones.

http://archives.tcm.ie/irishexaminer/2006/02/09/story615930334.asp


Informant: Iris Atzmon