Cell Phone Cancer Scare Time Journalist: Ian Smith, M.D. October 31, 1999 “Can cell phones cause brain cancer?” That’s the question my editor asked me as I talked to him on my cellular phone while walking a Manhattan street last week. Looking around, I counted almost one in five people similarly engaged in conversations on […]
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Expert Claims Cover-Up On Cell Phone Cancer Risk
Expert Claims Cover-Up On Cell Phone Cancer Risk The Australian Journalist: Dominique Jackson October 26, 1999 TELCOS have been accused of hiding evidence that shows mobile phones may cause cancer. The claim comes from George Carlo, whose company was paid $US25 million ($40 million) over the past five years to conduct research for the Cellular […]
Questions But No Answers About Cell Phone Radiation Safety
Questions But No Answers About Cell Phone Radiation Safety The New York Times Journalist: Warren E. Leary October 26, 1999 Almost since there have been cellular phones, there have been worries that the radio waves they emit might cause brain cancer. Yet despite years of studies, no one has established a solid link, and the […]
Warning On Cell Phones Cancer Link
Warning On Cell Phones Cancer Link Australian Financial Review Journalist: Stan Beer October 25, 1999 The head of a major health research group funded by the United States mobile phone industry has advised the chairman of AT&T that there is strong evidence linking cell phones to brain cancer. On October 6, Dr George Carlo, chairman […]
World’s Biggest Study Into Cell Phones And Cancer
World’s Biggest Probe Into Cell Phones And Cancer Sunday Mirror October 24, 1999 The world’s biggest study into suspected links between mobile phones and cancer will take place in the New Year. Nearly 9,000 cancer sufferers in 14 countries – including the UK and USA – will be interviewed by scientists in a £5.5 million […]
FCC: Cell Phone Safety Tests Need Standards
FCC: Cell Phone Tests Need Standards Dallas Morning News October 23, 1999 U.S. regulators warned a technical panel Friday to promptly develop tests for determining safe levels of wireless phone emissions or face standards imposed by the Federal Communications Commission. Manufacturers such as Motorola Inc. and Nokia Oyj use different methods for testing microwave radiation […]
Radiation Safety Fear From Cell Phones
MP’s Seek Action Over Safety Fear For Mobiles The Scotsman October 23, 1999 Lower limits on mobile phone emissions were recommended yesterday by a Commons committee. Although MPs conceded that there was no evidence to prove microwave radiation from the phones was harmful, they said manufacturers should be made to adopt tighter guidelines. The science […]
Children And Cell Phone Radiation Risk: Optus And Toys R Us Should Tell Parents
Kids And Cell Phone Hazards Risk: Optus And Toys R Us Should Tell Parents The Risks Australian Democrats – Media Release Lyn Allison – Spokesperson on Communications October 21, 1999 The Democrats today slammed an Optus-Toys ‘R Us joint venture selling mobile phones to children The Democrats’ Spokesperson on Communications, Senator Lyn Allison, said the […]
FDA Letter of Intent For Collaboration With CTIA
Letter of Intent for a Proposed Collaboration on Mobile Phone Research between the Food and Drug Administration and the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association October 20, 1999 FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health signed a Letter of Intent on October 18, 1999, to formally begin discussions and negotiations on a proposed collaborative project with the […]
Industry In Attacks On GPRS Radiation Rumors
Industry In Attacks On GPRS Radiation Rumors Electronics Weekly Journalist: Roy Rubenstein October 20, 1999 Mobile handset makers, silicon vendors and operators alike have rebutted claims of a potential delay in the introduction of GSM data enhanced handsets due to health issue concerns. They also dismissed reports of technical difficulties regarding battery overheating. GPRS works […]
Cell Phone Cancer Scare: Are You At Risk?
Cell Phone Cancer Scare: Are You At Risk? PR Newswire October 20, 1999 New research shows cell phone usage may cause cancer. More than 80 million Americans use cell phones, yet mounting scientific evidence shows mobile phone usage may cause brain tumors. The problem, explored in December’s PC Computing, stems from the radio frequency radiation […]
High Anxiety over exposure to non-ionizing radiation
High Anxiety over exposure to non-ionizing radiation The Guardian Journalist: Sarah Scott October 20, 1999 The mobile phone industry says its phones and masts are safe, but some scientists and consumers aren’t convinced. Sarah Scott argues that we should exercise caution while research continues Mobile phones have taken the country by storm, with one in […]
Cell Phone Radiation Makes You Age Faster
Cell Phone Radiation Makes You Age Faster Daily Mail October 18, 1999 Constant use of a mobile phone causes premature aging, warn scientists. Low level radiation from the phone ‘heats up’ body cells, damaging skin and making the user look lined and haggard. The study by Nottingham University’s School of Biological Sciences is the latest […]
Heath Study Puts Mobile Phones Under The Spotlight Again
Heath Study Puts Mobile Phones Under The Spotlight Again Independent Journalist: Jane Hughes October 17, 1999 THE DIRECTOR of Britain’s leading cancer charity spoke out yesterday to allay fresh fears that mobile phones can cause brain tumors. Professor Gordon McVie, of the Cancer Research Campaign, said he was unconvinced by the claims of Dr George […]
Cell Phone Brain Cancer Cover-Up – Firms Shelve Scientist’s Warning
Cell Phone Cover-Up – Firms Shelve Scientist’s Warning The Express Journalists: Ian Gallagher and Dennis Rice October 16, 1999 A Scientist who was paid millions by mobile phone companies to investigate health risks has bitterly criticized them for failing to act on his findings. Dr. George Carlo found that the rate of death from brain […]
Mobile Workers Tell How Health Suffered From Cell Phone Usage
Mobile Workers Tell How Health Suffered From Cell Phone Usage The Express October 16, 1999 An engineer launched a lawsuit against his former bosses at British telecom earlier this year, claiming the mobile phone they gave him caused him brain damage. Stever Corney, a father of three, worked for BT from 1986 until 1996, then […]
CTIA Asks ABC To Review 20/20 Broadcast On Cell Phone Cancer
CTIA Asks ABC To Review 20/20 Broadcast RCR News October 13, 1999 ABC denies it spiked a 20/20 segment on alleged mobile-phone health risks because of wireless industry pressure. Outside lawyers for the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association wrote Capital Cities/ABC Inc. President David Westin on Monday to request that the 20/20 broadcast on mobile phones […]
Children At Risk From smartphone radiation
Children At Risk From smartphone radiation The Herald Sun October 12, 1999 Children absorb up to 50 per cent more radiation from using mobile phones than adults. The younger the child, the more radiation their brain soaks up. Scientists have found the thin skulls and smaller heads of children offer less protection against microwaves sent […]
Cell Phone Health Hazard
Cell Phone Health Hazard Scares The Economist October 9, 1999 Scares about the ill-effects of mobiles will not stop the phones’ onward march A few months ago the British press was full of stories about mobile phones frying people’s brains, zapping their central nervous systems and generating brain tumors and cancers. Britain was not the […]
Dr. George L. Carlo Letter To AT&T Chairman on Cell Phone Radiation
Letter To AT&T Chairman C. Michael Armstrong From WTR Chairman Dr. George L. Carlo This letter reveals that the occurrence of brain cancer and certain types of tumors among cellular phone users is twice that of non-users. Dr. Carlo is requesting AT&T’s assistance to distribute this information to consumers so that they can make an […]
Mobile Phone Radiation List Revealed
Mobile Phone Radiation List Revealed The Independent Journalist: Kathy Moran October 4, 1999 The first comprehensive study of the health risk from mobile phones reveals that some models expose users to up to 20 times more radiation than others on the market. The research, carried out by German scientists from the Institute for Satellite and […]
Research Into Phone Radiation Danger ‘Inadequate’
Research Into Phone Radiation Danger ‘Inadequate’ The Guardian Journalist: Nicholas Watt September 23, 1999 A cross-party committee of MPs yesterday rounded on the government for failing to carry out proper research into the possible dangers posed by mobile phones. In a report on health hazards connected with the phones, MPs on the commons science and […]
Rise In Brain Tumors Sets Off Search For A Reason
A Medical Enigma – A Rise In Brain Tumors Sets Off Search For A Reason Minneapolis Star Tribune Journalist: Jill Burcum January 6, 1999 Without question, a brain tumor is one of the most frightening diagnoses you can face. Not only must you confront mortality, but also the knowledge that the slide toward death may […]
How human beings react to high-frequency radio waves from cell phones
Fake Brains A Smart Idea Wired News Journalist: Louis Knapp August 2, 1999 The idea may seem a bit macabre, but at least nobody’s losing his head over it. Researchers at Britain’s Bristol University are using phantom heads — made of real skulls with fake flesh and liquid brains — to analyze how human beings […]
