Re: cell phones

[j.wright@qut.edu.au (Jill Wright)]

This is one of those incredibly vague responses, I'm afraid. There was an
interview with a researcher (name not noted, he was I think from the Indian
subcontinent) who was the Professor of Engineering from, I think MIT (is
that very close to the John Hopkins Medical Centre?). He had not done any
research into health effects related to use of cellular phones, but had done
extensive measurement of the doses delivered to the area of the head
adjacent to the phone. A reasonable average of this dose was 60% of the
power of the device. He was advocating a redesign of cellular phones so that
the aerial was away from the head.
I'll e-mail the program presenter at the ABC for a bit more detail, and
email it if you are interested.
Jill Wright  


>rnross@bcsc02.gov.bc.ca
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>Our local TV station is doing a cell phone/brain cancer scare show. They
>opened the show with an interview of a woman here in Vancouver whose husband
>  died of brain cancer.  The tumor was located in the brain at the side of the
>head where the cell phone antenna was (most of the time).-  She is convinced
>that it was the cell phone radiation. That, coupled with 3 employees of the TV
>station who use cell phone continuously for 1 hour at a time or more having
>had benign cists removed off their heads is creating an air of credibility.
>Does anyone know of any recent (1994/1995) papers: epidemiological or
>animal studies that deal with cell phone radiation ie 800 - 900 MHz and health
>effects?
>
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