Cell Phone Use

Children and adolescent mobile phone users found at no greater risk of brain cancer than non-users

August 3, 2011

Children and adolescents who use mobile phones are not at a statistically significant increased risk of brain cancer compared to their peers who do not use mobile phones, researchers at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland, have found.

The researchers looked at the medical records of children aged 7–19 with brain tumors, identified through population registries.

read original article here: http://www.kurzweilai.net/children-and-adolescent-mobile-phone-users-found-at-no-greater-risk-of-brain-cancer-than-non-users

WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk

(CNN) -- Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/

Sar Rating Info: http://www.digitalsociety.org/2009/09/sar-ratings-are-not-a-measure-of-radiation/

device disables cell phone while driving

So Zhou, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the U., devised a key that transmits a Bluetooth radio frequency signal that disables the phone while still allowing it to place emergency calls.

The device encases the car key. When the key slides out, a disabling message is sent and a "stop" sign displays on the phone, Zhou said. Incoming calls and texts are automatically answered with the message: "I am driving now. I will call you later when I arrive at the destination safely." The device can be programmed to allow incoming emergency calls or to work when the phone is operated with hands-free equipment.

The U. holds provisional patents on the technology, called Key2SafeDriving, and licensed it to the firm Accendo LC, which hopes to have a product on the market within six months. Projected cost per unit is less than $50, plus monthly service fees, according to Accendo, a Kaysville firm specializing in providing early-stage seed capital and business support for new technologies.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11198256

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Calls for More Research into Mobile Phone - Brain Cancer Links

­Major research initiatives are needed immediately to assess the possibility that using cellular phones may lead to an increased risk of brain tumors, according to an editorial in the November issue of the journal Surgical Neurology.

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New evidence suggests kids who use cell phones could be five times more likely to develop brain cancer.

  By Leslie Sykes

Researchers say children are more at risk because their brains and nervous systems are still developing. In addition, their heads are smaller. Their skulls are thinner, making it easier for radiation to penetrate their brains. (Read More)

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Cell phone headsets can minimize any possible cancer risk
By Dr. Patrick Massey | Daily Herald Columnist

Published: 8/25/2008 12:03 AM Daily Herald

Many states have enacted laws making it illegal to use a cell phone while driving without a hands-free headset. You can get free ones for most phones at freeheadset.org.

The jury is still out on the Blue Tooth-type technologies since they also give off electromagnetic radiation and are right next to the head.

Much of the current research on cell phones and cancer is coming from Europe and rarely makes it into the U.S. news or commonly read medical journals. It may be some time before definitive recommendations are made by the U.S. medical and regulatory agencies. (read more)

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8/13/08

Cellphone Games

Does radio frequency radiation pose a cancer risk? Researchers in the largest study to date won’t say
by Melinda Wenner

Published in the September 2008 issue. The Walrus Magazine

Industry-funded studies ... are roughly twice as likely as government-funded ones to conclude that cellphones are harmless. Phillips is also convinced that the industry either cherry-picks its data or designs studies to show nothing. “A lot of the studies that are done right now are done purely as PR tools for the industry,” .... (read more)

8/5/08

New Cell Phone Risks Cause Panic Among Assholes

Tracy Klugian, 32, an asshole who works as a realtor in Tallahassee, Florida, said that he and his Bluetooth have been "inseparable" for the past three years, but the new health scare may change that.

"I didn't think twice about using my cell when it was only annoying other people, but now that it may be harming me, I'm going to have to kiss it goodbye," he said. "This totally sucks."

source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/new-cell-phone-risks-caus_b_116877.html

Air Tube Hands Free Headset

This headset is a mainstay primary intervention that should be employed by EVERY cell phone user. The Air Flow Hands Free Headset keeps the phone antenna (near-field radiation plume) and all electronic components (ELF radiation)away from your head and brain tissue.

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Cellphone use potentially risky for kids, teens: health agency

Toronto's department of public health is advising teenagers and young children to limit their use of cellphones to avoid potential health risks.

The advisory — believed to be the first of its kind in Canada — warns that because of possible side effects from radio frequencies, children under eight should only use a cellphone in emergencies and teenagers should limit calls to less than 10 minutes.

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The antennas are coming
Wed Jul 02, 2008, 12:32 PM EDT

There’s something the government, the telecommunication industry and the corporate media don't want you to know: Invisible things can hurt you.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 prohibited citizens from speaking at public meetings about health effects when cell-phone antennas are proposed for their towns.

Wireless Communications and Public Safety Law of 1999 gave cell phone companies total immunity from product liability.

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Cell Phone Cancer Connection - When I was first in China 15 years ago ... a major telephone company who were talking about something called a cell phone which would obviate the need to have telephone wires drapped all across the vast expanse of the middle kingdom. ..., I asked them about the cancer risk of hold that high frequency energy up to the head. They responded, “Yeas, we know all about the cancer risk, but the cost benefit ratios work out in favor of going with cell phones.”

CNET Cell Phone Radiation Level Chart - Compare radiation output from cell phones.

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6/3/08

Atlanta, GA: The recent discovery of, and surgery for a brain tumor Senator Ted Kennedy has refueled the debate over the link to cell phone use and cancer.

Senator Kennedy's diagnosis of glioma relates to a tumor that critics have long associated with cell phone use.

Warning: Using a mobile phone while pregnant can seriously damage your baby

Study of 13,000 children exposes link between use of handsets and later behavioural problems

By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 18 May 2008

AP

Scientists found that mothers who did use the handsets were 54 per cent more likely to have children with behavioural problems and that the likelihood increased with the amount of potential exposure to the radiation

Women who use mobile phones when pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with behavioural problems, according to authoritative research.

A giant study, which surveyed more than 13,000 children, found that using the handsets just two or three times a day was enough to raise the risk of their babies developing hyperactivity and difficulties with conduct, emotions and relationships by the time they reached school age. And it adds that the likelihood is even greater if the children themselves used the phones before the age of seven.

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6/3/08

The world's most comprehensive study of the health effect of cell phone use, two years overdue, has yet to be published. But some of the studies that contribute to the report are raising old concerns about the long-term safety of using wireless technology, according to the Toronto Star.

The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer expects to complete work on its 13-nation, 50-scientist collaboration soon. The intent is to define what, if any, risk of cancer comes from prolonged use of cell phones.

• A 2007 study conducted in five Northern European countries found a significantly increased risk of developing glioma after using a cell phone for more than 10 years. Glioma is a cancer of central nervous system cells, usually the brain.

• A 2008 analysis of 10 European studies published since 2000 found a pattern of association between long-term cell phone use and a type of glioma and acoustic neuroma, a non-cancerous inner ear tumor.

• A 2008 study showed heavy cell phone users had a 50% increased risk of developing a salivary gland tumor.

NEVER Hold an Infant While Talking on Your Cell Phone

The density of the child’s skull is far less and their brain is far more susceptible to these information-carrying radio waves. When you are on a cell phone the radiation plume can easily reach an infant in your other arm and penetrate their skull.

Safe Wireless Initiative

In the 1990’s Dr. George Carlo was given a $28-million grant from the cell phone industry to put an end to the talk that cell phones were hazardous to your health. Unfortunately, what he found was not what he’d been paid to find. Instead, he discovered that they DO, in fact, cause damage.

The cell phone industry offered him a position for $1 million a year to silence him, but he refused, and started a non-profit institute called The Safe Wireless Initiative to inform the world of this danger instead. I highly recommend you check out his site as he has compiled excellent resources on interventions you can use to maximize your health and minimize your EMR risks.

Eliminate Your Cell Phone Radiation
With Tiny Iron Beads

Clipping a tiny ferrite bead onto hands-free mobile phone kits can reduce a cell phone user's exposure to radiation to virtually zero. While using a hands-free device has been found to reduce radiation from cell phones, emissions can still travel up the headset wire and into the head.

The magnetic beads, which cost only a few pennies and measure less than 1cm in diameter, absorb these emissions and stop the radiation from being absorbed by the head. The hands-free kits have two currents, one that intentionally travels inside the wire and one that unintentionally travels outside the wire. It is the "unintentional" current that is blocked by the ferrite bead.

Evidence suggests the beads are most effective when placed around chest level, just below the microphone on a typical hands-free device.

Researchers said they'd like to see the mobile phone industry include the ferrite beads, which are already widely used to stop data interference in computers, in their hands-free devices "as standard." However, it could be quite some time before the cell phone industry and manufacturers incorporate this essential solution making cell phones a safer product.

I'm starting to do some research on where you can buy these. Here is one supplier of Ferrite Beads: (buy here)

More Info on Ferrite Beads on WikiPedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrite_bead

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most portable phones are a major source of these information carrying radio waves. The only exception would be the much older, essentially antiquated 900 MHz portable phones. Fortunately they are still readily available online.

One of the major differences is that they are only on when in use. The other higher MHz phones are on continuously, bombarding your cells with tissue damaging radiation even when you’re not using them.   

If you do choose to use a cell phone, use the speakerphone function whenever possible -- and keep the phone about two feet away from any body part. Do not keep the phone on your belt or in your pocket even when you’re not using it, as the radiation WILL penetrate your body wherever the phone is attached. Instead, stow it away in a purse, backpack, or your car’s glove compartment.

For times when a speakerphone isn’t practical, you can use a NON-Blue Tooth headset.

While Blue Tooth is certainly safer than no headset at all, it is still broadcasting its own information-carrying radio waves into your brain, just at a lower intensity than a cell phone. And there quite simply is no safe biological threshold for either of them.

Heavy Cell Phone Use Boosts Tumor Risk: Study

Regular use of cell phones for more than 22 hours a month increases a person's risk of developing a parotid gland tumor by about 50 percent, according to an Israeli study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

The parotid gland is located near the ear. The study said the tumor risk was even greater among people who always put the phone to the same ear, who didn't use hands-free devices, or who lived in rural areas, Agence France-Presse reported.

For this study, the researchers looked at cases of 402 benign and 58 malignant parotid gland tumors diagnosed in people age 18 or older in Israel from 2001-2003.

"Analysis restricted to regular users or to conditions that may yield higher levels of exposure (eg. heavy use in rural areas) showed consistently elevated risks," according to an abstract of the study, AFP reported.

New Report Claims Cellphones More Dangerous Than Smoking

Wednesday May 28, 2008.

While studies are always being released stating that cell phone use is or is not dangerous to humans, Dr. Vini Khurana, a neurosurgeon, has released an extensive study claiming that cell phone radiation is more dangerous to our health than smoking or asbestos. His study claims that exposure for 10 years or more can double a person's risk of getting brain cancer.

October 22, 2007 A new study links cell phone use to brain cancer.

Long-term cell phone use increases brain tumor risk

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Using a cell phone for more than a decade can double the risk of some brain tumors, according to a new analysis of previous studies.

The findings "give a consistent pattern of increased risk for acoustic neuroma and glioma," Dr. Lennart Hardell of University Hospital in Orebro, Sweden and colleagues write, with the greatest risk seen on the side of the head where the mobile phone was held.

(read original article)

Long-term use of cellular phones and brain tumours: increased risk associated with use for >=10 years

Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 64(9):626-632, September 2007.
Hardell, Lennart 1; Carlberg, Michael 2; Soderqvist, Fredrik 3; Mild, Kjell Hansson 4; Morgan, L. Lloyd 5

Cellular Phone Industry Just as Health-Harming as Big Tobacco?

Does this sound familiar?

• Nearly everyone uses it
• Has wide social acceptance
• Highly habit forming

More hints:

• More and more studies come out documenting harm from the product
• Product manufacturer denies dangers

Sure sounds like the tobacco industry, doesn't it? Well, it would appear the cellular phone industry is repeating the same path. We all know that history has a tendency to repeat itself, and that certainly seems to be the case here.

Critics claim the cell phone industry, just like the tobacco industry (Big Tobacco), seems determined to prevent and deny any suggestion that its products might be dangerous; however, years of negative research may prove otherwise.

For example, one study showed that radio waves from mobile phones definitely damage DNA and other cells in the body, and that the damage extended to the next generation of cells. Another research case in particular delivered quite a blow to the cell phone industry: The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association hired a man to head up a $28-million research program into possible health effects from cellular phones. Findings revealed that heavy cell phone users experienced:

• An increased rate of brain cancer deaths
• Development of tumors
• Genetic damage

Ironically, the cell phone industry has not commissioned another large-scale study, at least not publicly, since. Why? Because the cell phone industry is a multi-billion-dollar industry that can't afford to find out that, ultimately, cell phones are dangerous. Moreover, similar to Big Tobacco, the cell phone industry will be opened up to large liability claims if they were to start issuing warnings and precautionary tales now, which opens up the possibility that they knew the danger of radio waves all along.

http://www.mercola.com/2005/mar/26/cell_phones.htm

Cellular Telephones and Cancer—a Nationwide Cohort Study in Denmark

A retrospective cohort study of cancer incidence was conducted in Denmark of all users of cellular telephones during the period from 1982 through 1995. ... The results of this investigation, the first nationwide cancer incidence study of cellular phone users, do not support the hypothesis of an association between use of these telephones and tumors of the brain or salivary gland, leukemia, or other cancers.

Cell Phone Use Reduces Sperm Count in Men

Male Infertility, Cell-Phone Use May Be Linked, Scientists Say

By Patrick Donahue

Oct. 24, 2006 (Bloomberg) -- The number of hours a man talks on a cellular phone each day may affect his fertility, with sperm count and quality deteriorating as the duration of calls increases, according to researchers in reproductive medicine.

Scientists in Cleveland, Mumbai and New Orleans tracked 364 men who were being evaluated for infertility, and split them into three groups based on sperm count. In the group whose sperm counts were within the normal range, those who used a cell phone more than four hours a day produced on average 66 million sperm per milliliter, 23 percent less than those in the group who didn't use the phones at all. (Read Original Article)

Cell phones may damage sperm, study claims

Fertility experts dismiss results; other factors ignored

Updated: 10:53 a.m. ET June 28, 2004

LONDON - Cell phones may damage men’s sperm, Hungarian scientists say, in a study that fertility experts dismissed Monday as inconclusive.

Carrying a mobile in hip pockets or a holster on the waist could cut sperm count by nearly 30 percent, according to the research.

“The prolonged use of cell phones may have a negative effect on (sperm production) and male fertility,” Dr. Imre Fejes, of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Szeged said in a summary of the study. (read original article)

Scroll down for more information on the dangers of cell phone use.

Cell Phone Use, Health Risk?

cellphoneuse.org contains information and links about cell phone use and the effects of cell phone use on your health.

microwaves cook food		cellphones use microwaves

Reduced Sperm Count and Normal Fertility in Male Mice with Targeted Disruption of the ADP-Ribosylation Factor-Like 4 (Arl4) Gene
A. Schürmann,1* S. Koling,1 S. Jacobs,1 P. Saftig,2 S. Krauß,1 G. Wennemuth,3 R. Kluge,4 and H.-G. Joost1

Institute of Pharmacology,1 Institute of Animal Research, Medical Faculty, Technical University of Aachen, D-52057 Aachen,4 Department of Biochemistry, University of Kiel, D-24118 Kiel,2 Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of Marburg, D-35037 Marburg, Germany3

Received 14 November 2001/ Returned for modification 18 December 2001/ Accepted 15 January 2002 (read full article)

Use the links below for more information about cell phone use and how it affects you and your children.

Cell Phones and Cancer. You don't deserve brain cancer - you deserve facts!
March 26, 2005 -- Last week, a federal appeals court in Maryland reinstated five class-action lawsuits claiming that the cell phone industry has failed to protect consumers from unsafe levels of radiation.

Are Cell Phones Risky For Kids?
... 11, 2005 -- Until more is known about the potential risks of cell phone use a British research group says people should exercise caution in using the devices ...

Mobile phones tumor risk to young children.
CHILDREN under the age of eight should not use mobile phones, parents were advised last night after an authoritative report linked heavy use to ear and brain tumours and concluded that the risks had been underestimated by most scientists.

Protect yourself from the cell phone radiation emitted from the antenna of your mobile phone with the SAR Shield radiation shield. Electromagnetic radiation has been proven to be harmful

• radiation chart

Popular Science - Fresh Fears Over Cellphones
Neuroscience: A Swedish study links mobile phones to brain damage. ...rains showed significant blood vessel leakage, as well as areas of shrunken, damaged neurons. The cellphone industry so far has been quick to dismiss the data,

Slashdot | UK Report Suggests Dangers In Cell Phone Use
UK Report Suggests Dangers In Cell Phone Use. ... Can I offer anyone that miraculous
oat bran to fight off that cancer while they use their cell phone? ...

MSNBC - Report says children should limit cell phone use
General Health. Report says children should limit cell phone use. ... British scientists
recommend children use cell phones for as short a time as possible. ...

CBS News | Cell Phone Use By Kids Panned | January 13, 2005 14:30 ...
... Cell Phone Use By Kids Panned LONDON and NEW YORK, Jan. 13, 2005 Study:
Phones May Harm Kids. (Photo: AP / CBS), (CBS/AP) Parents ...

PCWorld.com - Cell Phones May Pose a Risk to Children
Cell Phones May Pose a Risk to Children. New study points out the potential hazards of long-term mobile phone use. Laura Rohde, IDG ...

PCWorld.com - Do Cell Phones Pose Health Risks?
SAR measures the amount of power absorbed by the brain. Excessive SAR can cause sickness and even brain damage if the absorption rate exceeds 50 watts per kilogram, according to Jokela.

Cell phone use linked to brain cancer in new study
/ Cell phone use linked to brain cancer in new study. ... Users of mobile phones are at increased risk of developing brain tumors, especially if they use older analog phones, a team of Swedish medical investigators has suggested. The tumors are most likely to appear on the side of the head where the users hold their phones, because those are the areas that are most exposed to the phones' microwaves, according to a study published in the online peer-reviewed general medical journal MedGenMed.

Is Long-Term Cell Phone Use Hazardous to Your Health? | Internet & ...
... Is Long-Term Cell Phone Use Hazardous to Your Health? Over the past several months, numerous stories have appeared discussing possible health and. ...

Case-Control Study on Radiology Work, Medical X-ray Investigations, and Use of Cellular Telephones as Risk Factors for Brain Tumors May 4, 2000 from Medscape General Medicine [TM]

You Don't Deserve Brain Cancer -You Deserve The Facts
By Amy Worthington. Some people appear to have an almost pathological emotional attachment to their cell phones and there is a fascinating suggestion that cell radiation pulses might actually be

Yahoo! Directory Listings on Cell Phone Use

- 12/10/07 - http://www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop/cell-phone-health-FAQ/toc.html ( this page states the following: The FAQs on power line fields, mobile phone base stations, and static electromagnetic fields have been discontinued." hmmm I wonder why?)

DMOZ sites about electromagnetic radiation effects from cell phones.

DMOZ search "cell phone health"

Electronic Fields and Human Health (bookmarked)

read these:

cell phones - http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/embs/comar/phone.htm
Following their reviews of the scientific literature, most committees concluded that the most sensitive reproducible effect is the disruption of learned behavior in trained laboratory animals. .... Such behavioral change is reversible and not considered harmful to the animal. ..... Only limited data are available about human exposures to RF energy, particularly long-term exposures. .... Cordless telephones operating at 46 MHz use lower power levels than cell phones, and produce much less exposure to the user. However, newer cordless phones that operate at 900 MHz and 2.45 GHz use power levels that are comparable to conventional cell phones. .... PCS systems operate at lower power levels, with more closely spaced cells and lower power handsets.

base stations - http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/embs/comar/base.htm
For most base stations, the signal strength at ground level increases gradually with distance from the tower, reaches a maximum between 50 - 200 meters from the base of the tower, and then decreases at still greater distances. ... The FCC does not require routine assessment of RF fields from base stations,

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