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Created: 13 September 2007
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The health effects of electromagnetic waves in the microwave regions through the use of cell phones, particularly the physiological effects on the human brain.

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Description: If you tend to hold your mobile phone on your cheek or cheekbone when you're talking on it, you might want to reconsider that habit. A team of researchers has found that holding a mobile phone like that can lead to an increase in the amount of potentially dangerous electromagnetic waves absorbed into the brain and other body parts. The electronics engineering team led by Prof. Kim Youn-myung at Dankook University said Sunday that they experimented with 12 kinds of handsets to determine how much energy is absorbed from the handsets. They found that the specific absorption rate (SAR) varied by as much as three times depending on how and where the phone is held to the face. According to the study, the lower the microphone of the handset is placed from the mouth and the closer the handset is held to the cheek, the higher the SAR. This was true regardless of the type of handset -- folder or slide -- and the location of the antenna -- internal or external. Yet SAR was slightly lower with sli

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Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About Korea

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200711/200711050007.html

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First added:20 November 2007 , by: Jutta Schrimpf [Report as spam]

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Tags: cancer, cell phone safety, electromagnetic waves, mobile phone safety

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Description: BERLIN: One in four Germans who worry that mobile phones and their transmission towers are health hazards can now relax following studies coordinated by the Berlin-based Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS). German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said more than 50 studies in the German Mobile Telecommunications Research Programme (DMF), conducted from 2002 to 2008, had found no evidence that mobile phones and transmission towers posed a health risk within the required limits for electromagnetic radiation. The programme was funded with 17 million euros ($26 million), a small sum compared with the billions of euros that the German government collected when it auctioned licenses for slices of Germany's UMTS airwave spectrum in 2000. Though the country's four mobile network operators provided half of the research funds, the BfS told critics that DMF procedures had ensured the objectivity of the studies. Research focused on the functioning mechanisms of high frequency electroma

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Mobile phones pose no health risk: German study- Telecom-News By Industry-News-The Economic Times

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Mobile_phones_pose_no_health_risk_German_study/articleshow/3183202.cms

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Description: While studies to date have been less than definitive, critics say that the increases in electronic magnetic "pollution" have been coupled with an insufficient knowledge of the health risks over the long term. (Frank Polich/Bloomberg) PARIS : While major cities around the world rush to blanket neighborhoods with free wireless Internet access, critics are questioning the health risks that might be created by a wired London or a Paris transformed from the City of Light to City of Hot Spots. The nagging fear is that electromagnetic waves emitted by wireless technology could become the tobacco smoke of the 21st century. Some environmentalists are already demanding restrictions, and government officials in some countries are issuing warnings to limit use and seeking reviews of the long-term health impact of exposure to wireless networks and mobile telephones. "The exposure to electromagnetic fields is rising, and it's widespread," said Jacqueline McGlade, executive director of the European

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Cloud of worry gathers over wireless health risks

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/23/news/wireless24.php

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First added:24 September 2007 , by: Kate Porter [Report as spam]

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