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South Africa: Cellphone Signal Concerns Raised Again

Posted by smeddum on August 17, 2008

South Africa: Cellphone Signal Concerns Raised Again

24 July 2008
Posted to the web 24 July 2008
Lesley Stones
Johannesburg AllAfrica.com

FRESH concern is being raised about the potential dangers of cellphone usage – especially as SA begins to roll out higher-power broadband technologies.

The radiation generated by cellphones and base stations has been under scrutiny for years. But for every report proclaiming a health risk, another proves inconclusive or dismisses previous research as scare-mongering.

Now the local branch of the Electromagnetic Action Group (Emag SA) has collated studies from around the world and is calling on network operators and Icasa, the industry regulator, to recognise and minimise the risks. Read the rest of this entry »

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Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

Posted by smeddum on August 16, 2008

Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection

CHILDREN AND MOBILE PHONES:
THE HEALTH OF THE FOLLOWING GENERATIONS IS IN DANGER EMFacts (pdf)

Moscow, Russia 14 April 2008

For the first time in history, we face a situation when most children and teenagers in the world are
continuously exposed to the potentially adverse influence of the electromagnetic fields (EMF) from mobile
phones.
Electromagnetic field is an important biotropic factor, affecting not just a human health in general,
but also the processes of the higher nervous activity, including behavior and thinking. Radiation directly
affects human brain when people use mobile phones. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cellphone Games

Posted by seumasach on August 14, 2008

The perspectives of this article are somewhat limited: exposure to EM is not restricted to mobile phone users and its dangers are not only those of cancer, but a whole range of effects from high blood pressure to depression. Nevertheless, it presents a clear expose of industry distortion of scientific investigation.
Melinda Wenner
September, 2008
Daniel Shattuck calls himself a soldier, and you might assume as much from his shaved head and six-foot, 210-pound frame. But he’s never been in the armed forces. Instead, Shattuck has been reluctantly drafted to fight against something in his own body: a malignant brain tumour. “To me, it’s a war,” he says. “I’m at war with this thing every day.”

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