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Britain to Fund Research on Potential for Health Effects Related to Mobile Phone Use Although there is no irrefutable medical evidence about health risks, the government is taking a precautionary approach. Sir William Stewart will head the research program that will be funded by the government and the mobile phone industry. (Reuters) (The Times, U.K.) (BBC) (The Evening Standard, U.K.) (ITN) (Mformobile.com)  Dec 18, 2000

CELLPHONES: INVISIBLE HAZARDS IN THE WIRELESS AGE: An Insider's Alarming Discoveries about Cancer and Genetic Damage Dr. George Carlo, former leader of the industry funded HRM Group,  has co-authored a new book with Martin Schram. The ISBN for the book is 00786708182, and the publisher is Carroll & Graf. The book may be ordered e g via Amazon.com or Barnes&Noble Synopsis Here is a gripping narrative of scientific detection that chronicles an unprecedented journey of discovery by Dr. George Carlo into the impact of cell phones on human health. This book is a clarion call sounding the message that consumers need not allow themselves to become guinea pigs for new technologies whose long-term health effects are unknown. It is essential reading for the 90,000,000 Americans currently using wireless phones, and the millions who may begin using them in the future. In 1993, as news reports appeared of people using cell phones who'd also developed brain tumors, Carlo was hired by the cell-phone industry to affirm the safety of its product. He soon learned there was little research into whether these phones could impair human health, and no consensus among scientists on the question. Carlo's own research intensified his concern, especially the startling discovery that human blood cells could be damaged by the radiation emitted from a cell phone. He made urgent recommendations to the industry, including a plea that cell phones not be marketed to children. Yet, phones emblazoned with cartoon characters soon hit the market. In 1999, the industry quit funding the independent research directed by Carlo, investigated his private life, and began a whispering campaign that sought to discredit him. Appalled but undeterred, he has now brought his case to the public in a powerful assessment of the dangers posed by wireless phones-with safeguards readers can use to protect themselves-that is destined to be placed alongside such classics as Silent Spring, Microbe Hunters, and The Coming Plague. From the Publisher This book is a narrative of scientific detection that answers troubling questions, while also telling a disturbing tale of governmental neglect, corporate manipulation, and personal tenacity and courage. It is essential reading if you are among the millions of Americans who hold a cellular telephone against your head everyday, if you are beguiled by the newest wireless Internet gadgets, or if you just want to know whether government is truly looking after the public's health." "The authors also provide the most thorough presentation offered anywhere of preventive safeguards consumers can adopt right now. Their fascinating and troubling examination of the collision between science and politics, presented in an ingenious format that directs readers to alternately "Follow the Science" and "Follow the Politics," is an accessible and enlightening primer for which concerned members of the public will be deeply grateful and which policymakers will ignore at all our peril. Dec 15, 2000

COMMENTARY. Mobile phones and the illusory pusuit of safety Two Papers in the November issue of the Lancet addresses the controversal issue of safety of mobile telephones. Ken Rothman considers the issue from an epediomological viewpoint, whereas G J Hyland seeks a possible machanism for harmful effects. Physics and biology of mobile telephony, G J Hyland Although safety guidelines--to which mobile telephones and their base-stations conform--do protect against excessive microwave heating, there is evidence that the low intensity, pulsed radiation currently used can exert subtle non-thermal influences. Epidemiological evidence on health risks of cellular telephones, Kenneth J Rothman  It is too soon for a verdict on the health risks from cellular telephones, especially in view of changing technology. November 25, 2000, The Lancet "Cellular telephones and risk of brain tumours" - COMMENTS to Kenneth J Rothman's article given by Lennart Hardell, Kjell Hansson Mild  March 24, 2001, The Lancet

SARdata.com Publishes Cellular Phone SAR from FCC site. SARdata.com has researched all the major manufacturers SAR reports from the FCC and put them on an easy to read website for the cellular user to access. Any cell phones not listed will be added after the consumer enters their FCC ID number. The consumers phone ID research will be then posted the next day.  July 26, 2000

Cell Phone Radiation To Be Revealed in US NEW YORK (AP) - Mobile phone makers will be required to disclose information on the radiation levels produced by their handsets under a new policy adopted by the wireless industry's most influential trade group.  The new guidelines will be imposed in August for all new handset models submitted for product certification by the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association, the Washington-based organization confirmed Monday. July 26, 2000, Exite News

A step in the right direction The Labour Court (Arbetsdomstolen), which comprises the final forum for settling legal disputes on labour issues in Sweden, recently decided that the notice from Ericsson for the end of employment for the senior designer Per Segerback, MUST wait for the verdict of The Labour Court, expected in October this year. Ericsson tried to get an "interim decision" on this matter, but lost. The reason for the notice is that Per Segerback is hypersensitive to electromagnetic fields. July 13, 2000, FEB Sweden (see below for earlier information about this case!)

Evidence that Electromagnetic Radiation is Genotoxic: The implications for the epidemiology of cancer and cardiac, neurological and reproductive effects. Dr Neil Cherry, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand For presentations in May to NZ Parliament and June 2000 in Italy, Austria, Ireland and at the European Parliament in Brussels. The full report is found at EMFGuru as Evidence that electromagnetic radiation is genotoxic (Cherry) Note. The file size is around 2 MBytes due to the amount of pictures. FIGURE: Summary of observed ewffects, and the mean levels of the exposure for human studies of exposure to electromagnetic radiation. All epidemiological studies occur below the ICNIRP and New Zealand Standard of allowable exposure. June 2000

International Conference on Cell Tower Siting Linking Science & Public Health Results of the Conference Salzburg Resolution on Mobile Phone Base Stations and Persons already signed Salzburg Resolution (in pdf format) Salzburg, Austria June 7-8,  2000

Mobile phone research ordered and precautionary principle adopted in UK EGMP, Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones. Press conference, London, 11 May 2000, Announcement of the publication of the report on mobile phones and health. The text of the report is available in full. BBC NEWS, "Mobile phone research ordered." THE TIMES, Health fears for children force mobile phone study - No answer on mobile phone call  - My advice has been to err on side of caution - The mobile phone debate a survey of the surveys and The Stewart Report - a summary BBC NEWS Scotland, Planning change call for phone masts May 11, 2000

Hearing about Electrical Sensitivity at The Swedish Council for Work Life Research took place, Wednesday, March the 8th. RALF, The Swedish Council for Work Life Research RALF has been assigned by the Swedish Government to present a research overview and to perform an evaluation of the Swedish and International Research in the area of Electrical Sensitivity and the Health Risk of Electrical and Magnetic Fields. The report shall be presented before December 1st, 2000.  For six hours ES people and relatives witnessed about their experience. The spoken statements was written down and will be published together with received letters from ES people. The paper will be printed in Swedish and will be appended to the report to the Swedish Government. The hearing paper is estimated to be published in June this year. Thank you for your support!

 

25 November, 1999. Has the management of Ericsson developed an emphatic dysfunction? Per Segerbäck one of the Electrosensitive ASIC designers at Ericsson has now been fired by the company. In the early nineties he and 9 others in a work group of 12 got electrosensitive at his work at ELLEMTEL. Per has continued to work from home, but in October his modem connection to the company was cut off. The union at Ericsson is supporting him and legal actions will probably be taken. *** ERICSSON FIRES ELECTRICALLY SENSITIVE PER SEGERBÄCK  Long time electrically sensitive employee Per Segerbäck ( read about Per on: http://www.feb.se/ARTICLES/ellemtel.html ) has been working  for Ericsson from his home for many years until November 22, 1999 when he was suddenly fired.  The reason given: His electric sensitivity. In Sweden a company rarely fires anyone unless for very good reasons such as there being no work. It is very rare  for a company to fire for reasons such as an employees health problems or handicap --  indeed it is illegal to discriminate against people with handicaps and indeed fire them for such reasons. No doubt the Swedish Handicap Ombudsman will have his say on this also. For these reasons, the largest  Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter November 25 1999 had a prominent article on this very unusual behavior from a Swedish company. Swedish radio, wire services and  other newspapers featured the story also. A spokesman for Ericsson, Mr.Göran Wittlock who is represented on the board  of directors of Ericsson and thus speaks from on high in the company, admits that Per became electrically sensitive at his workplace, but that Per cannot work there anymore. He told the newspaper that Per Segerbäck  who must work from home, is not allowed anymore to work from home because he has to work  "in a team", but Per Segerbäck has told FEB that his work has always been in a team and it has worked fine the last ten years. He is shocked and does not understand the sudden change in company policy. The union (SIF) spokesman Lars-Erik Sjölund was flabbergasted. He told the newspaper that Per is doing exactly the kind of highly qualified work that Ericsson are in dire need of. It is absurd to fire him for not being able to work at the office. We have people working from their home in northern Sweden, Why could not Per work from his home which is a lot closer? May be since Ericsson makes mobile phones and antennae, it might seem strange to the customers that Ericsson sells these items on the one hand, and on the other has employees who are electrically sensitive --  who knows he says? The sudden change in Ericsson policy might have its explanation in that an English law firm has told mobile phone manufacturers that they better watch out: If the mobile phone manufacturers repeat the mistakes of the tobacco industry - concealing and manipulating scientific information about health hazards --  they might find themselves in the same position. Could it be argued, in future legal suits, that Ericsson, having had electrically sensitive individuals employed, such as Per who is so sensitive to microwaves, that he cannot even travel into the center of any town, that they should have been more aware of the health hazards of mobile phones and the microwaves they emit? Have they received legal advice to get rid of him? Who knows?  It is clear that the decision is a central one direct from the board of Ericsson. And the decision has given a lot of bad publicity for the company. Due to the ever increasing blanket of elektrosmog, Per Segerbäck has been forced to move further and further away from Stockholm. He is unusually sensitive, but what about the rest of the population that appear to be "healthy", have they had any symptoms, what about the people that live in the elektrosmog, the individuals, many young children and teenagers who speak on mobile phones daily, what about them? No one has really connected the most recent developments to microwaves.  The last two years, we have had an almost epidemic illness called "burnout" or severe stress that put people on sick leave from two months to two years. Some never return to their old work. Newspapers constantly revert to this subject. Swedes have more mobile phones than anyone in the world. They assume that they are harmless. But American scientist professor Henry Lai says that microwaves have the same stressing effect on living things as loud sound has.  People have always worked hard, but why do they suddenly get burned out and totally incapacitated for months and years? Could it be that the additional stress of microwaves and other electrosmog, gives an additional stress factor to the body that the body cannot cope with?  We have also found out recently that very weak microwaves from mobile telephones can open the blood brain barrier and allow toxins into the brain. http://www.medfak.lu.se/cr/search/eng/proj/177.html Maybe this toxic inflow into the brain, contributes to the body becoming stressed and "burned out".  The most recent report includes teenagers being stressed in similar fashion. It is explained with psycho social stress, but no one seems to suspect the mobile phones they all have without exception. Not yet. One thing is for sure, firing Per Segerbäck is not going to make all these problems disappear.  FEB  Sweden

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