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Henry Lai, a UW professor of bioengineering, has been warning of the potential health risks of cellular phones since the 1990s.
Cell phone cancer risk debated
UW researcher sees vindication
seattlepi.com
By TOM PAULSON
P-I REPORTER

More than a decade ago, the University of Washington’s Henry Lai and his colleague Narenda “N.P.” Singh reported that cell phones appear to emit enough electromagnetic radiation to cause the kind of DNA damage to brain cells that can lead to cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

July 22nd Microwave News
The brains of young children absorb twice as much as RF energy from a cell phone as those of adults, according to a set of new calculations carried out by Joe Wiart’s research group at France Telecom in the suburbs of Paris.

“[Our] analysis confirms that peripheral brain tissues of children seem to be higher exposed than the peripheral brain tissue of adults,” Wiart concludes in a paper that appears in the July 7 issue of Physics in Medicine and Biology. “Children are not simply small adults.” Wiart explained in an interview with Microwave News. “Their skin and their skulls are thinner than those of adults, and their ears are smaller too,” he said. “Given these differences, the higher SAR for children is not surprising,” Read the rest of this entry »

Posted on: Monday, 30 June 2008, 09:03 CDT     RedOrbit 

Issac Asimov once said

‘The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.’ It seems according to this report: things are a lot sadder than that. See here

By Doreen Carvajal

For 10 years, scientists have been waiting for the outcome of a global examination of the habits of thousands of brain cancer patients to explore whether there are links between cellphone use and brain tumors.

But now the findings of the euro 15 million, or $24 million, Interphone study are stalled, caught in an international rift among prominent cancer researchers who are divided about how to interpret the risks of radio-frequency radiation emitted by mobile telephones. Read the rest of this entry »

Naplesnews

The author concludes that there should be more independent studies: while that is welcome, what would be more welcome would be due attention given to independent studies already completed.

Saturday, July 5, 2008