Gibson, P.R. (2009). Chemical and electromagnetic exposures as disability barriers: Environmental sensitivity. Disability & Society, 24(2), 187-199. Author posting. (c) Taulor & Francis, 2007. The definitive version is published in March in Disability & Society, 2009. Disabililty & Society is available online at http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/866664432-71930040/content~content=a909454491~db=all~jumptype=rss



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Assessment of Chronic Mercury Exposure and Neurodegenerative Disease

Dan R Laks, Environmental Health Science
M.S. Thesis, U.C. Berkeley

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Chemical sensitivity syndrome to make list of gov't-insured medical conditions
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Toxicol Environ Health A. 2009;72(11):727-32.

Cao Y, Zhang W, Lu MX, Xu Q, Meng QQ, Nie JH, Tong J.

School of Radiation Medicine and Public Health, Suzhou University, Suzhou, China.

Mobile phones are widely used globally. However, the biological effects due to exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMF) produced by mobile phones are largely unknown. Environmental and occupational exposure of humans to gamma-rays is a biologically relevant phenomenon. Consequently studies were undertaken to examine the interactions between gamma-rays and EMF on human health. In this study, exposure to 900-MHz EMF expanded gamma-ray damage to SHG44 cells. Preexposure EMF enhanced the decrease in cell proliferation induced by gamma-ray irradiation and the rate of apoptosis. The combination of EMF and gamma-ray exposure resulted in a synergistic effect by triggering stress response, which increased reactive oxygen species, but the expression of hsp70 at both mRNA and protein levels remained unaltered. Data indicate that the adverse effects of gamma-rays on cellular functions are strengthened by EMF.

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* Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

PMID: 19492235 [PubMed - in process]

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Mobile phones, cordless phones and the risk for brain tumours
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Mobile phones, cordless phones and the risk for brain tumours

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Letter to Councillor Minnan-Wong

Toronto City Council

Councillor Minnan-Wong,

I am a research scientist and associate professor at Trent University in Peterborough and I do research on the health effects of electromagnetic radiation.

It was brought to my attention that you want to bring free wireless to Toronto. While I recongize that you have good intentions, as this is an amazing technology that provides a gateway to the world and would be of particular value to those who cannot afford it, you should also be aware of some of the potential consequences. There are two ways of accessing the internet through wires and through wireless technology. Wireless is certainly more convenient but it also increases our exposure to microwave radiation, the same radiation-although at lower intensity-used by a microwave oven.

The current guidelines used by Health Canada (Safety Code 6) are based on a short, 6-minute, average heating effect. The assumption is that if this radiation during a 6-minute exposure doesn't heat your body then it is SAFE.

With wireless in Toronto we would be exposed 24/7 and the more people using the system the higher would be the exposure. If you ask Health Canada what their long-term exposure limit is . . . they don't have one. While a 6-minute average exposure MAY make sense (if heating is our only concern) for a short 6-minute phone call on a mobile phone it does NOT make sense for long-term, continuous exposure.

Libraries in France are removing WiFi because of ill health complaints. Scientists and doctors around the world are asking their governments to re-examine existing guidelines for wireless technology and to adjust them based on the results from countless scientific studies, which are showing adverse health effects at levels thousands of time slower than Safety Code 6.

A number of countries are doing this and the best guidelines in the world are in Salzburg Austria (0.1 microWatts/cm2). Russian guidelines are 10 microWatts/cm2. Do you know what our guidelines are? 1000 microWatts/cm2 . . . 100 times higher than the Russian guidelines and 10,000 times higher than the Salzburg guidelines!

I would strongly urge you to read the document I wrote on wireless technology (attached) and I would also encourage you to go to the http://www.bioinitiative.org website as this contains a document that references more than 2000 scientific documents on the biological and health effects of electromagnetic energy.

Wired internet is the best way to go. It is more costly but it is also safer in the long-term. Please read these documents before you move forward, because you may be doing long-term harm for short-term gain.


Dr. Magda Havas, B.Sc.
Ph.D. Environmental & Resource Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, K9J 7B8
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Well worth a visit is the Blog "Between a Rock and a Hard Place" - Opinions on mobile phone safety by Research Professor Dariusz Leszczynski from the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland.

http://www.stuk.fi/blog/leszczynski
http://www.stuk.fi/blog/leszczynski/fi_FI/15_05_2009/

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Spanish paper on cell phone addition now available online

Titled "Addiction to cell phones: are there neurophysiological mechanisms involved?",the paper by Afonso Balmori and Maria Paz de la Puente, looks at cell phone use as an addiction problem, especially for children and young people. Originally published in the Spanish magazine _Proyecto_, Vol. 61: pp. 8-12, March 2007.

The English translation is at:
http://www.emfacts.com/papers/cell_addict_en.pdf (Translation from Spanish by Patricia Garcia)

The Spanish original is at:
http://www.emfacts.com/papers/cell_addict_sp.pdf

Abstract: At first glance we could consider the addiction to cell phones as belonging to those addictions that are substance-free, also called psychological addictions. Yet, unlike these, cell phones emit microwaves that reach the brain, making investigators wonder if there could be a physiological base for such addictions. The following article gives a brief overview of the studies made that analyze the effects that these radiation produce and that bring us closer to the possible addictive effect, similar to those provoked by conventional drugs. In them, the authors dare to sound the alarm of the abuse that young people, whose brains are still in the process of maturing, could be prey to the risks derived from their improper use, and consider that there should be specific education of the responsible use of cell phones.

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From the abstract: The aim of the present analysis was to examine the association of a medical history of asthma, hay fever, eczema, or epilepsy with the risk of glioma and meningioma. The positive association between epilepsy and particularly glioma suggests that epilepsy is an early symptom of the disease. As the association was seen also for epilepsies occurring more than a decade before the diagnosis of glioma, this might indicate either an aetiological role of epilepsy, or a relatively long preclinical phase.

Bibliography: Berg-Beckhoff et al., Eur J Epidemiol, published online May 31, 2009

Abstract and free preview
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Die deutsche Übersetzung des Abstract (Zusammenfassung) der Studie habe ich um eine Erläuterung der Hauptergebnisse mit Grafik erweitert, siehe http://www.buergerwelle-schweiz.org/Wissenschaft.298.0.html#6948

Die bisher unter diesem Link zugängliche Zusammenfassung ist gegen das Dokument gemäß Anhang ausgetauscht worden.


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