Remember this summer s study about cell phone health effects in children? The study s conclusion, distributed through press releases, was not based on the study s case controlled data. In reality, the study showed that children who regularly use a cell phone have an increased risk of brain tumors.

This article s author, Mona Nilsson, uncovered that the brother of Anders Ahlbom, had been a lobbyist in Brussels for the telecommunications industry for many years. This revelation basically caused Anders Ahlborn to be removed from the WHO s International Agency for Research of Cancer.

http://newsvoice.se/2011/12/12/highest-risk-for-mobile-phone-users-in-sweden-but-brain-tumour-incidence-rates-are-underreported/

Christine Hoch
Executive Director
http://www.centerforsaferwireless.org
703-431-1558


As Doctors Use More Devices, Potential for Distraction Grows

Doctors and nurses can be focused on the screen and not the patient, even during moments of critical care, a problem perhaps best described as 'distracted doctoring.'

55 percent of technicians who monitor bypass machines acknowledged to researchers that they had talked on cellphones during heart surgery. Half said they had texted while in surgery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/health/as-doctors-use-more-devices-potential-for-distraction-grows.html?_r=1&ref=mattrichtel


Thousands Of Birds Make Crash Landing In Utah

http://www.salon.com/2011/12/14/thousands_of_birds_make_crash_landing_in_utah/


Informant: Martin Weatherall



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