Subject: Carlo launches wireless phone health study (Joson)..
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 130727 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Roy L. Beavers"
To: emfguru
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......The independence of this effort (independent of the vested
interests, government and industry) -- which it **implies** it now
has -- must be watched......!!! (The "private" funding source has
not been identified.....)
Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
roy@emfguru.com
.....It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.....
NEW!!! Website... http://emfguru.com
...................People are more important than profits.................
Missed opportunity...
$$$$$ We could have changed the corrupted system!! $$$$$
McCain !!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Lisa Joson (202) 296-7000
NEW WIRELESS PHONE HEALTH STUDY LAUNCHED:
AIMED AT ASSESSING A NUMBER OF HEALTH EFFECTS
INCLUDING BIRTH DEFECTS AND IMPACTS ON CHILDREN
April 26, 2000 Washington, D.C. - - An independent group, led by
Dr. George Carlo, the former head of the $27 million, industry sponsored
Wireless Technology Research (WTR) program, has launched a new wireless
phone health study aimed at assessing a number of consumer related health
problems, including birth defects, health effects in women and impacts on
children.
The Radiation Protection Project, under the not-for-profit
Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI), has initiated the program
that includes post-market surveillance among the 90 million wireless
phone users in the United States, and a series of specific laboratory and
epidemiological studies that follow directly from the work completed by
the WTR.
The Radiation Protection Project will examine how the risks of
developing cancer, including leukemia and other blood cancers, and birth
defects are impacted by wireless phone use. In addition, work focused on
the impact of wireless phone radiation exposure on women and children,
the adequacy of current radiation emission standards, and interference
between digital phones and implanted cardiac defibrillators will be included.
*Because scientific and medical studies have shown possible
health effects from the use of wireless phones, it is critically
important to find and assess health problems among phone users that they
believe may be related to their use of the phone. Monitoring of this
type is currently not being done anywhere in the world, and it is
necessary to do this monitoring to ensure consumer protection. We have
now corrected that problem, at least for the United States,* said Dr.
Carlo in announcing the new tracking and monitoring program. The Health
Risk Management Group, Inc. of Washington, D.C. is coordinating the
surveillance project.
Initial support and funding for the new program has come from
private sources, and a coordinated effort is currently underway to raise
additional funds from government, foundations, philanthropists and
business leaders to complete the $60 million research aspect of the
program within the next four years. The surveillance, which yields
immediate benefit to consumers, will be ongoing.
The surveillance program will link specific health problems with
types of cellular and wireless phones used, consumer phone usage
patterns, and year when phones were first used. The in-field follow up
capability that has been developed to pursue leads identified through the
surveillance is modeled after the Centers for Disease Control
Epidemiologic Intelligence Service (EIS) program.
Press Release
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*People who believe they are experiencing health effects from
their phone use can help by sharing their experiences, confidentially,
with the Radiation Protection Project. In effect, they are helping all
wireless phone users because our goal is to protect consumers and ensure
safety* said Carlo. *They can contact us by telephone, mail or through
the Internet.*
Over the next 60 days the Radiation Protection Project will be
issuing public service announcements and using other forms of media to
alert consumers and make them aware of this important program.
Consumers can reach us online at our website HRMGroup.org or
healthproblems@aol.com; by telephone at (202) 296-7000; fax at (202)
296-7576; and by mail at: Radiation Protection Project, 1711 N Street,
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
The Science and Public Policy Institute addresses issues that
involve conflicts among science, public health, business and
politics. Previous SPPI projects include: the health effects of silicone
breast implants, the public health ramifications of the recent tobacco
settlement, the safety of food irradiation, the impact of ultraviolet
radiation from climate change on human health, and the adequacy of the
U.S. polio vaccine policy.
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Reprinted with permission of Roy Beavers, http://www.emfguru.com