24.01.2006

NAILA – Konsequenzen aus den medizinischen Untersuchungen über Gesundheitsschäden nach der Inbetriebnahme von Mobilfunk-Sendemasten fordert der „Ärztliche Qualitätszirkel Elektromagnetische Felder in der Medizin - Diagnostik, Therapie, Umwelt“, der von der Bayerischen Landesärztekammer anerkannt ist. Der Nailaer Facharzt Dr. Horst Eger sowie die Bamberger Medizinerin Dr. Cornelia Waldmann-Selsam sind Mitverfasser eines Briefes an Bundesumweltminister Sigmar Gabriel. Das Schreiben ging unter anderem auch an Bundeskanzlerin Angela Merkel, Bundesgesundheitsministerin Ulla Schmidt und den bayerischen Ministerpräsidenten Edmund Stoiber. Dr. Eger ist darüber empört, dass auf den Brief, der auf den 7. Dezember 2005 datiert ist, noch keine Antwort eingegangen ist.

Der Brief des medizinischen Qualitätszirkels mit dem Titel „Ärztliche Dokumentation von Gesundheitsschäden durch elektromagnetische Hochfrequenzfelder“ hat folgenden Wortlaut: „Sehr geehrter Herr Minister, von unserem Qualitätszirkel sind zunehmend besorgniserregende schwerwiegende Gesundheitsschäden an Einwohnern der Bundesrepublik Deutschland durch Vorort-Untersuchungen inklusive Messungen dokumentiert worden. Wir lassen Ihnen daher die Unterlagen persönlich zukommen

Gesundheitsschäden

Wir führen hier den medizinisch-wissenschaftlichen Beweis, dass die zurzeit technisch verwendeten hochfrequenten elektromagnetischen Felder innerhalb gültiger Grenzwerte kausal zu Gesundheitsschäden an der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung führen. Grundlage ist der in der Medizin gültige Beweis über die Analogie gehäuft auftretender vergleichbarer Krankheitsbilder.

Die zuvor nachweislich gesunden Patienten erkranken unabhängig voneinander; sie erkranken in eindeutigem zeitlichen Zusammenhang mit Senderinstallationen und die Krankheitsbilder bessern sich, wenn keine Hochfrequenzbelastung besteht (Deexposition). Es erkranken nicht nur Einzelne, sondern ganze Familien und Nachbarschaften.

Gefahr in Verzug

Trotz Information an das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz und Ihr Ministerium unter der vorherigen Regierung ist bisher nicht vor Ort dahingehend gehandelt worden, dass die krankmachende Noxe (Umstand, Anmerkung der Redaktion) durch Senderabschaltung untersucht wurde. Entsprechende Vorortuntersuchungen bei Erkrankten sind im Deutschen Mobilfunk-Forschungsprogramm nicht einmal ansatzweise vorhanden, obwohl die Untersuchung von Bevölkerungsteilen in Sendernähe bereits 2002 als prioritär zu untersuchendes Problem eingestuft wurde (Bundestagsdrucksache 14/8792).

Eine weitere Verzögerung ist nach dem Vorliegen unserer Unterlagen weder ethisch noch juristisch zu rechtfertigen, da hier eine Situation ‚Gefahr in Verzug‘ vorliegt, die umgehendes Handeln erfordert. Die jetzt allgemein anerkannte Notwendigkeit verschärfter Kontrollen der Fleischwirtschaft mag als Denkanstoß hilfreich sein.

In Ausdruck großer Sorge . . .“

Die Mediziner hatten dieses Schreiben zusammen mit Dokumentationen zu erkrankten Patientengruppe in Dresden, Völklingen und Ötisheim übersandt. W. R.

http://www.frankenpost.de/nachrichten/regional/frankenwald/resyart.phtm?id=911272

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Merkel: Öfter mal das Handy ausschalten
http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/3125024/

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Neurosci Lett. 2006 Jan 4; [Epub ahead of print]

Papageorgiou CC, Nanou ED, Tsiafakis VG, Kapareliotis E, Kontoangelos KA, Capsalis CN, Rabavilas AD, Soldatos CR.

Department of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital, University of Athens, Greece; University Mental Health Research Institute, Athens, Greece.

There is a debate whether electromagnetic field (EMF) emitted by mobile phones (MP) have an effect on cognitive functions. Since the auditory P50 component of event-related potentials (ERPs) reflects pre-attentive processing and working memory (WM) operation, the present study was designed to investigate whether the exposure to MP-EMF affects the patterns of the P50 component of ERPs elicited during a WM test. The P50 elicited during a WM task and evoked by two warning stimuli low and high frequency (500 and 3000Hz) has been assessed in 19 normal subjects (10 women and 9 men) both without and with exposure to a 900MHz signal, emitted by a dipole antenna placed near the subjects. Results showed that the presence of MP-EMFs induced statistically significant increase in the amplitude of P50 evoked by the low frequency stimuli, at Fp1 and O1 electrode leads as compared to themselves without MP-EMF exposure. In contrast the exposure to MP-EMFs revealed statistically significant decrease of the amplitude of P50 evoked by the high frequency stimuli, at Fp1 electrode lead as compared to themselves without MP-EMF exposure. These findings provide evidence that the MP-EMF emitted by mobile phone affect pre-attentive information processing as it is reflected in P50 evoked potential. The basis of such an effect is unclear, although several possibilities exist and call for potential directions of future research.

PMID: 16406308 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=16406308&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_docsum

http://at-de.i-newswire.com/pr15142.html
http://openpr.com/news/3606

Again misinformation to the media

October 2005, Interphone researchers did not inform the public that 1.8 times more acoustic neuroma after ten years mobile phone use was found. Instead, they told the media that there is no heightened risk (Interphone study by M.J. Schoemaker, A.J. Swerdlow, S.J. Hepworth, P.A. McKinney, A. Ahlbom and others). Reuters forwarded the message to the world apparently without checking the report.

See: http://www.nature.com/bjc/journal/v93/n7/index.html (last item) and:
http://www.powerwatch.org.uk/news/20050901_neuroma.asp

January 2006, they did not inform the public that significantly more glioma was found at the side of mobile phone use, and significantly less glioma was found at the non-side. They told the media that the participants did not remember the side they used, and that a pattern was not seen for handedness (Interphone study by S.J. Hepworth, M.J. Schoemaker, A.J. Swerdlow, P.A. MacKinney and others. Yes, the same researchers). Reuters forwarded the message without checking the truth: a person's preferred hand for holding a mobile phone cannot be predicted from knowledge of their hand dominance.

See: http://www.flinders.edu.au/speechpath/LINNETT_1.pdf and:
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/rapidpdf/bmj.38720.687975.55v1

The researchers left out about 49% of the patients with glioma, because they died rapidly. They analysed the other patients, found no increased risk and concluded that the ones who died rapidly could not make a difference.

The researchers write, that radiofrequency fields emitted by mobile phones are thought to be unable to cause malignancies by damage to DNA. Well, that is the paradigma that should be left. Instead, the Interphone studies take it for granted, though it has been shown by many studies that DNA is damaged by electromagnetic fields (Lai and Singh (Verenigde Staten), Adlkofer (Reflex, EU), Zhengping Xu (China), Xu Xi Shan (Korea) and others).

The Interphone studies are funded by the EU, the Mobile Manufacturers Forum and the GSM Association. The United Kingdom studies are funded by the Department of Health and five netwerk operators.

The University of Leeds also received some financial support from five mobile network operators. One of the researchers has received funding from four mobile network operators before, for a feasibility study.

Research funded by network operators and mobile phone organisations tends to find nothing.

See: http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAE3A.htm and elsewhere.

The researchers say, their results are consistent with studies showing a lack of convincing and consistent evidence of any effect of exposure to radiofrequency field on risk of cancer. Who says so? 'Epidemiology of health effects of radiofrequency exposure' (A. Ahlbom, D. Swerdlow and others. Yes, they are authors of the Interphone acoustic neuroma study) and 'Health risks of electromagnetic fields' (M. Repacholi and others. Repacholi is the coordinator of the EMF-radiation project of the WHO. He is the one who discards all the research showing evidence). Studies who find associations between tumours and mobile phone use are called 'individual', a word used by Repacholi who calls effects of electromagnetic fields 'a myth'.

As usual, future studies will be able to address longer latency periods.

Frans.



Here is the link to the press release (in German)

http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news144621

Regards, Frans

German Interphone study finds increased risk after ten years of mobile phone use

The Interphone study in Germany has found a double risk of glioma after more than ten years of mobile phone use. The group of long-term users was relatively small and part of them has been using the 450 MHz analogue system too. The elevated risk can be the result of a statistical deficiency or an unknown cause. Therefore a press release of Bielefeld University says, mobile phone use does not increase the risk of brain tumours. However, the elevated risk is remarkable, because it is most plausible in the group of long-term users, according to the press release.

Two Interphone studies in Great Britain found elevated risks of acoustic neuroma and glioma. In both cases press releases did not mention an elevated risk. The European Interphone studies are done in 13 countries. The studies are financed partially by the Mobile Manufacturer's Forum and the GSM Association. The German study was partially paid by the Mobilfunkforschungsprogramm of the Bundesregierung, two ministries and Mainz University. The German study was conducted by J. Schüz of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, Denmarkt. He was also involved in the Danish Interphone study.


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network

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