Posted on 07/12/2008 12:50:41 AM PDT by neverdem
Mobile phones have become an essential component of modern living. However, the marked increase in the use of wireless mobile telephony throughout the world has also raised some serious health concerns, as mobile phones utilize electromagnetic radiation in the microwave range. While currently available data does not show any negative health effects resulting from the low levels of electromagnetic energy emitted by mobile phones, there is some conflicting scientific evidence that may be worth additional study, according to FDA.
"We don't see a risk looking at currently available data, but we need more definite answers about the biological effects of cell phone radiation and about the more complicated question of whether mobile phones might cause even a small increase in the risk of developing cancer" says David Feigal, M.D., director of FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health.
Early laboratory tests have shown that mobile phone radiation, also known as RF-EMF (radiofrequency modulated electromagnetic fields) alters protein expression and activity in human endothelial cell samples (cells that originally pad blood and lymph vessels). A recent study conducted by the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority (STUK) has examined for the first time whether or not a local exposure of human skin to RF-EMF causes changes in protein expression in living people.
The researchers exposed a small area of the forearm skin of ten female volunteers to RF-EMF for one hour and collected biopsies from exposed and non-exposed areas of their skin. Expression analysis of 580 extractable proteins identified 8 proteins that were statistically significantly affected by the exposure. Two of the proteins were present in all 10 volunteers. These findings suggest that exposure to RF-EMF might affect protein expression in human skin.
”Mobile phone radiation has some biological effect. Even if the changes are small, they still exist” says Dariusz Leszczynski, research professor at STUK. He adds, however, that it is much too early to determine whether the changes induced by mobile phone radiation have any effect on health.
STUK plans to launch a more extensive study, with 50 to 100 volunteers, in 2009. This study and similar studies are expected to shed some light on the ambiguous influence of mobile phone radiation on the human body and health.
While the possible harmful health effects of mobile phone radiation are being examined, these phones may also have some medically beneficial applications. A couple of cell phone-related studies recently covered by TFOT deal with cell phone based medical diagnosis, as they help in the development of a process for transmission of medical images via cellular phones, and cell phone microscopy which is intended to enable visualization of samples critical for disease diagnosis.
The article Mobile Phone Radiation Might Alter Protein Expression in Human Skin is available on this page of the BMC Genomics web journal.
Isn't that just peachy?
I would say rather that cell phones allow people to much freedom so the liberals are trying to manufacture a new scare that will cause people to eventually turn against them. That way not only will we not be able to drive our cars but we won’t be able to talk to people when we are out riding our bicycles or riding our wonderful public transportation systems./SAR
So just use them on Wednesday through Monday. :=)
That’s pretty amazing for a 3.6 Volt, 2200 milliamphour battery.
Why do I get the feeling this claim may go the way of the electric-power-lines-cause-leukemia claims from Sweden a few years ago?
Radio waves expand with distance losing their power density however a metal surface will reflect microwaves and a curved metal surface can refocus the energy like a lens. Sitting inside an airliner with 300 people talking on their cell phones is a little like being inside a microwave oven.
I have a new implanted cardiac defibrillator. Instructions are to use a cell phone on the ear opposite the ICD.
That aside, there was a story not long ago that some morbidly obese woman had grown to the couch where she lay, so that the couch material had become part of her skin.
From looking around Atlanta, It is evident to me that cell phones will be the next big evolutionary move. Cell phones are in use so much that they will grow to the ear and become part of human DNA.
Cordless phones are also harmful....so they say
With both cell and cordless you are holding a radiation source closer to you and for longer periods than anything else you use. The closeness is the killer
If it is at all dangerous it will only affect those that need to have them surgically removed because they are pinned to their head where ever they go. You probably know what I am talking about.
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I should have written self reference.
It's great!
Natural selection at work.
Converting a necessity into a toy may have unexpected consequences that will reap great rewards.
Just saying.
It's great!
Natural selection at work.
Converting a necessity into a toy may have unexpected consequences that will reap great rewards.
Just saying.
It's great!
Natural selection at work.
Converting a necessity into a toy may have unexpected consequences that will reap great rewards.
Just saying.
That's the second paragraph of this posted article with the FDA basically saying we don't know if cell phones are safe long term.
I wanted to read the paper linked in comment# 1 before I wrote anything more since I started the thread. There's another link at comment# 12 that's worth a gander if the science is over your head.
IMHO, prudence dictates that you keep your landlines, and use your cellphones next to your ears just for emergencies. That's what I'm telling family and friends. This is starting to look like a tort lawyer's delight.
If you are in a place where you can, and privacy is not an issue (nor is there anyone around to annoy), use the speakerphone.
Iirc, EM radiation decreases by the distance to the third power.
I also use external antennae when I use the phone, more often than not (simply because I need to use an amplifier and a directional antenna where I use the phone the most). Distance and shielding (from the structure I am in) should help. I’m not getting rid of the landline anyway.
Thanks for the ping!
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