Cellphones, Cordless Phones and Cancer – Real Warnings!
This is one of most important entries I have written. I feel badly that I haven’t posted this information earlier, but I wanted to do additional research. I have sent emails to people I know with phones which appear to be more hazardous than I ever expected. For the last 15 years, I have been following research on the effects of non-ionizing radiation produced by cellphones. Our entire family and most of our staff and guests use them. Knowing their hazards makes using them a bit geeky and definitely less convenient, but, importantly, somewhat safer. In any case – let’s start with the recommendations from a stellar panel of scientists from the planet’s premier universities. First, this information is from a study released in August,...
Don’t Give-Up Your Land Line!
In 2005, Molly Wood, a senior editor at cnet.com, issued a column The cell phone industry: Big Tobacco 2.0?, in which she wondered if the popular and addictive cell phone is not unlike cigarettes. The cell industry then and now actively argues that scientific evidence does not demonstrate a relationship between cell phone use and disease, specifically cancer (http://www.cnet.com/4520-6033_1-5741203-1.html). This year, Dr. Siegal Sadetzki an epidemiologist and physician at Tel Aviv University, published Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Benign and Malignant Parotid Gland Tumors–A Nationwide Case-Control Study, (American Journal of Epidemiology., 15 February 2008; 167: 457 – 467; http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/167/4/457.) The study...
Head care: Advice on purchasing cellphones
A University of Washington study documented the effect on DNA in the brains of rats exposed for two hours to the Federal Communications Commission highest permissible level for cell phone radiation. Although the meaning of the DNA damage is not understood, researchers believe that point source heat can damage DNA and cell phones create point source heat. To avoid this heat, users should use headsets and hands-free devices. However, most of us tend to carry our phone in a pocket or purse and pull it out when it rings or vibrates and take the call. We talk. A short call is probably not problematic. But all calls are not necessarily short. And many of us don’t use a headset. Radiation is measured in terms of specific absorption rate (SAR) – with 1.6...
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