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Von: JCMPelican @aol.com |
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Datum: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 01:45:37 EDT |
To All: Reports are numerous
-- everyone is commenting (article, "Alzheimers Set
to Explode" below) -- note the huge increases projected for
Asia!!! I have also included a portion of an Asian webpage re
WiFi information from 2005.
Will the United Nations step in to announce
"prudent avoidance measures re EMF/EMR" before the figures are
adjusted to reflect what is really happening?
The addition of WiFi to our already over-polluted,
toxic EMF/EMR environment has "added fuel-to-the fires" that Dr.
Michael Repacholi, while working for the World Health Organization, refused to
help control.
It is beyond me what can be done to mitigate harm
being caused by WiFi short of "reversing course," but it is painfully
obvious that some sort of warnings need to be issued to persons
around-the-world to immediately reduce "close, chronic, prolonged EMF/EMR
exposures."
Since reduced levels of melatonin are now known to be
linked to autism as well as Alzheimers and other neurodegenerative disorders
including Parkinsons, the United Nations should call upon the World Health
Organization (WHO) to institute measures to inform international media that
persons should check sleeping areas re electric appliances, cordless phones,
telephone equipment including transformer boxes as well as cell phones and cell
phone chargers -- a long list of "items of concern," and to move beds
away from walls opposite electric or gas meters, as well as appliances,
computer equipment, etc. that might be against wall opposite bedroom.
I wonder how many Asian children, teens and
adults keep their cell phones close to their pillows? I received
a report from a woman here in the United States that her mother -- recently
diagnosed with Alzheimers -- has been sleeping with her cell phone "under
her pillow....." AND also has it close to her while the cell phone
is being charged......!!!"
Take care everyone -
Joanne
Joanne C. Mueller
Guinea Pigs R Us
731 - 123rd Avenue N.W.
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55448-2127 USA
Phone: 763-755-6114
Email: jcmpelican@aol.com (6-14-07)
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Prediction: 106 Million Alzheimer's Patients by 2050
By Daniel
J. DeNoon
WebMD Medical News
Reviewed By Louise
Chang, MD
June 11, 2007 -- Today, 26.6 million people worldwide suffer Alzheimer's
disease. In just over 40 years, that number will quadruple to
more than 106 million patients -- and 43% of them will need full-time care in
nursing homes.
This grim prediction of the global burden of Alzheimer's disease comes
from Johns Hopkins researcher Ron Brookmeyer, PhD, and colleagues. The
researchers base their forecast on a complex computer model fed United Nations
population projections and data on Alzheimer's disease.
"We face a looming global epidemic of Alzheimer's disease as the
world's population ages," Brookmeyer says in a news release. "By
2050, one in 85 people worldwide will have Alzheimer's disease."
The only good news from the computer model is that if new ways are found
to slow the disease, it would significantly reduce the global burden of
Alzheimer's -- even if these new treatments had only modest effects.
Delaying Alzheimer's onset by just one year would reduce the 2050 case
load by 12 million patients.
But not all breakthroughs are equal. If researchers succeed in slowing
Alzheimer's progression as well as delaying onset, there would be only 9.2
million fewer cases by 2050 -- because people with the disease would survive
longer.
"The worldwide costs will be huge," Brookmeyer and colleagues
warn.
Currently, nearly half of the people with
Alzheimer's disease live in Asia. That proportion is expected to grow to 59% by
2050, with nearly 64 million cases.
Brookmeyer's reported the grim numbers to the Second Alzheimer's
Association International Conference on Prevention of Dementia, held
June 9-12 in Washington. The findings also appear in the Alzheimer's
Association journal Alzheimer's & Dementia.
SOURCES: Brookmeyer, R. Alzheimer's & Dementia,
2007; manuscript received ahead of print. News release, Johns Hopkins
University Bloomberg School of Public Health.
© 2007 WebMD Inc. All rights reserved.
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=81716
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MIMO - "popular
flavour" WiFi .......
ZD NET ASIA
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FAQ: Wi-Fi's latest alphabet soup Fast-paced innovation
can be exhilarating, but it can also be a recipe for confusion. Take Wi-Fi, the popular
wireless-networking technology that's taken the computer and consumer
electronics industries by storm. The term specifically refers to a handful of
standards approved by industry groups that has made wireless networking
inexpensive and nearly unbiquitous in the latest gadgets and computers. The
Wi-Fi standards use unlicensed radio spectrum to transfer data between
devices, such as a laptop and a wireless-networking router.......... [ skip ] .........Sorting out the
alphabet soup can be as frustrating as untangling the ball of wires behind
your PC that the standards are supposed to help replace. For example, 802.11n
is still in development but manufacturers are trying to get a jump on the
demand for it by developing products using a technology that 802.11n will be
based on. Called MIMO, it's getting lots of buzz
as some wireless-router makers tout it as the most powerful flavour of
Wi-Fi to date. |
[ Content omitted....... emphasis by
Joanne Mueller......6-13-07.....]
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=81716