Health risk of long-term mobile phone use to be studied by scientists
By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
Sunday, 8 June 2008
Question? Does extended use of cell phones cause brain and other forms of cancer? That has been an issue than an activist colleague from Mission Viejo named Haya has championed for several years only to be dismissed as having a lack of medical proof. In fact, Haya and her husband Jake, are so concerned about the health risks relating to cell towers themselves, that they sold their MV home and moved to Laguna Niguel.
The following partial text comes courtesy of the Drudge Report.
Independent.co.uk Web
Scientists have started work on a massive official study to discover whether the long-term use of mobile phones causes brain cancer, and Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases.
The study – whose launch vindicates an Independent on Sunday campaign to draw attention to potential risks of using handsets for over a decade – will initially involve 200,000 people in Britain, Denmark and Sweden, and hopes to increase its range to other European countries. The British part of it alone will cost £3.1m, provided jointly by the Government and by the mobile-phone industry.
The research – which is being led in Britain by a team from Imperial College, London, under the auspices of the Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR) Programme – will follow 90,000 mobile-phone users in this country over the years, to see what happens to them. It is important because cancers take at least 10 years – and normally much longer – to develop, but the phones have spread so rapidly and recently that relatively few people have been using them for that long. Official assurances that the phones do not cause the disease have been of little value as they are based on research that, at best, includes few people who have been exposed to radiation from the phones long enough.
Last October, this newspaper reported that the most comprehensive study to date – a review of all the research on people exposed for more than a decade – had found that they were twice as likely to get brain cancer on the side of the head where they held the handset.
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Juice readers. As more Americans, including our young children and grandchildren, are using cell phones by the millions are you concerned about the cancer risk?
go here and watch this 38 second you tube video. if it is not a hoax, it is frightening:
http://www.impactivism.com/on_vine_street/2008/06/this-is-your-brain-on-cellphones.html
I have to learn how to send those you tube videos in my emails. That one of Cathy’s is great – popcorn by cellphone!
What I liked about this story was that a bunch of world leaders got together and came up with a logical course of action – study the problem and devise a solution. No one was insinuating that another was unpatriotic or immoral for advocating a position and they still managed to raise enough money to fund the study.
Unfortunately in America nowdays the Government funds the study and then editorializes and censors their final report so that it does not contradict the official government position. At least thats what I understand happened to the study on global warming (and I don’t know how many others) and I’m sure there was some impugning of morality and patriotism in the process.
I dont think we can afford that kind of rhetoric and thuggery anymore if we are going to address the problems we are facing. It prevents real dialog and problem solving and sure, its fun, but we’ve run out of time. We’ve got to fix this stuff and we need you Reeps involved to do it. We’re all in this together. Lets find some solutions that work for everybody.