Cellphones make you senile, study suggests
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http://www.canada.com/search/story.aspx?id=e184b9a3-93d2-4124-b92d-e3318f096195
Monday September 15 2003
Cellphones make you senile, study suggests Teenagers warned
against
overuse of wireless devices
Cellphones endanger young brains, study says.
LONDON -- Cellphones, together with the increasingly popular
wireless
technology that goes with them, could cause a whole generation
of teens
to go senile in the prime of their lives, new research suggests.
The alarming Swedish study -- which warns specifically against
"the
intense use of cellphones by youngsters" -- comes as
an embattled
communications industry is increasing pressure to scale back
research on
their health effects.
Prof. Leif Salford, who headed the research at Sweden's prestigious
Lund
University, has branded what he calls "the voluntary
exposure of the
brain to microwaves" from cellphones "the largest
human biological
experiment ever." And he's warning that, as new wireless
technology
spreads, people may "drown in a sea of microwaves."
The study, financed by the Swedish Council for Work Life
Research and
published by the U.S. government's National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences, breaks new ground by looking at how low levels
of
microwaves cause proteins to leak across the blood-brain barrier.
Previous concerns about cellphones have concentrated on the
possibility
that the devices may heat the brain, or cause cancer. But
the heating is
thought to be too minor to have an effect, and hundreds of
cancer
studies have been inconclusive.
As a result, the U.S. cellphone industry has succeeded in
cutting
research into the health effects, and the World Health Organisation
is
unlikely to continue its studies. But Salford and his team
have spent 15
years investigating a different threat than other researchers.
The team's previous studies proved that radiation could open
the
blood-brain barrier, allowing a protein called albumin to
pass into the
brain. Their latest work goes a step further by showing the
process is
linked to serious brain damage.
Salford noted that the long-term effects were not proven,
and that it
was possible the neurons would repair themselves in time.
But, he
insisted, neurons that would normally not become "senile"
until people
reached their 60s may now do so when they were in their 30s.
He also
noted that he deliberately refrained from publicizing his
work to avoid
alarm, and acknowledged that cellphones can save lives.
© Copyright 2003 The Province
and
IBM
goes RFID
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IBM tags new RFID services
September 15, 2003, 7:37 AM PDT
By Matt Hines Staff Writer, CNET News.com
http://news.com.com/2100-1011_3-5076368.html
IBM expanded its presence in the market for radio frequency
identification on Monday with the introduction of services
to help
companies adopt the supply-chain management tool.
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has generated interest
among
retailers and consumer-goods companies as a method to more
effectively
track inventory. The technology allows companies to closely
follow
movement of products via computer networks linked with microchips
that
are attached to specific items. Each chip transmits a unique
ID code
that lists a range of product information, such as origin,
location,
expiration date and time of purchase.
IBM's new package, launched at this week's Electronic Product
Code
Symposium in Chicago, entails consulting services and specialized
software aimed at building RFID capabilities into retailers'
existing
back-end inventory systems. IBM said the package is based
on
nonproprietary standards and is built on its WebSphere Business
Integration, WebSphere Application Server, DB2 Information
Integrator,
Tivoli Access Manager and WebSphere Portal Server products.
IBM is
offering a three-phase adoption strategy: consulting, followed
by a
12-week pilot program and then a full launch.
"IBM believes RFID's time has come," Faye Holland,
worldwide RFID leader
at IBM Global Services, said in a statement. "As our
retail and
(consumer-goods) customers see the dramatic benefits this
technology
brings in cost reduction, improved customer service and streamlined
operations, the demand is escalating."
Among the companies already working to implement RFID are
retail giant
Wal-Mart Stores and clothing maker Prada. In addition to allowing
businesses greater ability to follow the flow of products
throughout
their supply chains into stores, the technology is also aimed
at cutting
into employee theft, traditionally a problem for many consumer-goods
makers.
However, RFID has also generated controversy among privacy
advocates who
have aired concerns that the technology can be used to track
the
movements of consumers.
IBM is one of a slew of IT consulting companies attempting
to tap into
interest around RFID, along with rivals such as Accenture
and
Hewlett-Packard.
Informant: Gotemf
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Seniles
also in Israel
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The lines "The cellular grows a senile generation"
can be read today on
the front page of the most sold newspaper in Israel-Yediot
Ahronot. It's
the translation of the story from England with slight changes
(Mays
Swicord is a woman, the study is "a huge Europe study")
Anyway the story is spread on 2 pages of the main news: "A
new study:
'An entire generation' of youngsters is liable to become senile
because
of the use of cellular phones".
Communication disturbances.
The big letters are: "A huge research that was done in
Europe, raises
frightening findings. The mobile phones radiation can cause
a leak of
proteins from the blood to the brain. The damage can be serious:
damage
to the brain cells and the memory, to senility. Motorola:
The
governments should stop 'wasting money' looking after damages".
The cellular and us: [Israel in numbers. When you read this,
remember:
Israel is only 6 million people]
6.4 million lines in Israel
1.2 million users up to 25 years old.
1 million users 25-35 years old
In 80% of the homes in Israel there's at least one cellular
phone
30% of the homes in Israel have 2 cellular phones.
average use a month: 300 minutes
an average account a month: 180 Shekels (about $40)
an average account of young person: 240 Shekels (about $50)
Scientists react:
"This study proves again, that damage in the body cells
is not
necessarily linked to high exposure that causes heat at the
exposure
area, but happens also at low exposure levels" says Prof
Rafi
Korenstein, a researcher at Tel Aviv University. "The
cellular companies
and government authorities have to relate to the last studies
because
the international standards relate only to the heat effect"
says Prof.
Korenstein.
The director of the unit of cancer registration at the health
ministry,
Dr. Micha Bar Hana, thinks differently: "In the research,
the
researchers found proofs for damage in the activity of the
rat cells.
The question is, how is it possible to conclude from a research
on rats-
to humans brain activity. Also, every year studies are published,
and
claim a thing and its opposite about use of cellular phones."
Anyway Bar Hana advices to the public to talk with open antenna,
to
remove the antenna from the ear and to use device which enables
to put
the cellular phone in distant from the body.
Communication disturbances.
Yediot Ahronot 15.9.2003
The story from England, (the israeli version is not on the
newspaper
website yet)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=443248
Informant: Iris Atzmon
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Blood
test a 'marker' for electrosensitivity?
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Recently on several other Internet discussion groups that
these messages
go to, information has been circulated about the condition
of
"electrosensitivity". In addition, The Australian
Radiation Protection
and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA) is conducting a survey
on the
condition.
There are some who will argue that electrosensitivity is
primarily a
psychosomatic or psychological condition, and those who insist
that it
is an environmental illness, purely resulting from exposure
to EMF/EMR.
However, if a biological 'marker' could be found that is
only seen in
fatigue type illness associated with prolonged EMF exposure
(discussing
50-50 Hz fields here) that would go a long way to resolving
the
controversy.
It is possible that a condition, called "Pseudo Iron
Deficiency" may be
a marker for immune system effects from ELF/EMF exposure.
There is no
data available on a similar effect from RF/MW however.
As part of the data collected from previous case histories
http://members.dodo.com.au/~maisch/emfacts/papers/case-histories.html
and from a preliminary research study:
http://www.acnem.org/journal/21-1_april_2002/changes_in
_health_status_of_cfs_patients.htm
It was noted that some people who had 'high' EMF exposures
reported
having 'low-iron levels' that seemed to be associated with
their fatigue
symptoms. Upon hearing that a French study also found low
iron levels
(since termed "pseudo iron deficiency") with prolonged
powerfrequency
exposures, I managed to contact the study author and eventually
compiled
a report on their findings. Some of which is on my web site
at:
http://members.dodo.com.au/~maisch/emfacts/papers/french.html
As part of planning for a future follow-up CFS/EMF study
(above) I
compiled a report on all that I could find on this unusual
blood
condition, that only appears to be associated with prolonged
powerfrequency EMF exposure. I presented this to a laboratory
in
Melbourne and they confirmed that it is an easy test to do
and would
cost in the order of $29.90 per sample (see below).
It is my opinion that a study, set up along the lines of
our previous
CFS/EMF study, that additionally conducts "pseudo-iron
deficiency"
tests, may well help to clarify whether or not "electrosensitivity"
as
an environmental illness.
http://www.acnem.org/journal/21-1_april_2002/changes_in_health
_status_of_cfs_patients.htm
and: http://members.dodo.com.au/~maisch/emfacts/papers/cf-changes2.html
The possibility exists that "PID" may be a marker
that may identify ill
individuals who have excessive powerfrequency EMF exposure.
My colleagues and I hope to follow this up in about three
years time but
are willing to share information with other research groups
that may
wish to investigate this line of inquiry further.
Don Maisch
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O.T.
themes
Bush
defends change in environmental rules
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President Bush Monday defended a change in clean air rules
— which
environmentalists believe will cause more pollution —
as necessary
to allow power plants to upgrade their equipment and keep
the U.S.
economy going.
http://www.enn.com/news/2003-09-16/s_8439.asp
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Bush's
Crusade Against 'Terrorism'
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1100
US
Public Rejects Bush Plea for $87 to Escalate Gulf War
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/newsArticle.asp?id=1098
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US
and Britain isolated as Iraq angrily buries its dead
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=443250
Countdown
to catastrophe
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j091503.html
The
military's bloated budget
http://slate.msn.com/id/2088277/
Bush's
big blunder
http://reese.king-online.com/Reese_20030917/index.php
A
helping of crow with those freedom fries?
http://tinyurl.com/ndva
A
struggle to explain
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20030915.shtml
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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The
PATRIOT Act's Assault on the Bill of Rights
http://www.independent.org/tii/news/030915ONeil.html
Report
on Iraq WMD shelved as no evidence found by US-UK team
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4708.htm
The
Terrible Truth
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4712.htm
The
New Rulers of the World
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3586.htm
Information Clearing House News
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The
Link between the "War on Terrorism" and "Free
Trade
http://mailhost.groundspring.org/cgi-bin/t.pl?id=34396:740526
Environmentalists Against War
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Are
we Safer or Just Less Free?
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030915~aclu.asp
Sacrificing
Captain Ryan
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030915~to.asp
Statement
on the Second Anniversary of 9/11
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030915~pt.asp
Outsourcing
War
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_37/b3849012.htm
The
hawks fall out
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EI16Ak03.html
Informant: kevcross5
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