Subject:  Hospital warns staff avoid mobile phones (Maisch).. 
Date:     Tue, 14 Mar 2000 184222 -0600 (CST)
From:     "Roy L. Beavers" 
To:       emfguru 
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.......From EMF-L.......

".....there are no adverse health effects for people using mobile phones
today."  (The World Health Organization, WHO)

........Does anybody on this list believe that???  .....**NO** adverse
health efects???

Cheerio.......  Thanks, Don.....  Good article.....

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 10:54:47 +1100
From: Don Maisch 
To: rbeavers@mail.llion.org
Subject: (Sydney Morning Herald) Hospital warns staff: avoid mobile phones

Hi Roy

See:  <  http://www.smh.com.au/news/0003/15/pageone/pageone2.html   >


                        Hospital warns staff: avoid mobile phones

                        By JUDITH WHELAN, Health Writer

                        In a landmark health policy directive, Royal North
                        Shore Hospital has
                        advised its staff to avoid using mobile phones to
                        minimise any potential
                        risk from microwaves.

                        The hospital's executive director, Professor
                        Norbert Berends, said the
                        policy was a precaution to help staff concerned
                        about their exposure to
                        adopt simple procedures.

                        The advice, issued to staff this month, says
                        landline phones or pagers
                        should be used "to the fullest possible extent in
                        preference to mobile phones".

                        Staff given a mobile phone as part of their job
                        were to be given hands-free
                        ear and microphone sets "to avoid possible
                        concentration of radiation near
                        vital or sensitive organs".

                        As well, those using mobiles occasionally were
                        advised to hold them away
                        from their head, "as it is the distance of 3-4
                        centimetres that presents the
                        greatest risk potential".

                        Questions about whether the electromagnetic energy
                        emitted by mobile
                        phones causes cell changes that could lead to
                        cancer have been raised by
                        several studies.

                        But no government body at present recognises any
                        risk to health from
                        using the phones.

                        Neither NSW Health nor the Federal Department of
                        Health and Aged
                        Care have a public policy on the possible health
                        effects of mobile phones.

                        A Telstra spokeswoman said there was no policy
                        advising its staff not to
                        use mobiles "in regard to health risks". The
                        company's health and safety
                        policy had no "specific reference to handsets in
                        regard to EME
                        [electromagnetic emissions]".

                        Dr Berends said: "The hospital acknowledges that
                        there is no clear
                        evidence in the existing scientific literature that
                        the use of mobile phones
                        poses a long-term public health hazard. However,
                        the possibility of a
                        small risk cannot be ruled out."

                        Few human studies have been done on the effects of
                        mobile phones,
                        which have been available for less than 15 years.

(NOTE: THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS INCORRECT, IT WAS NOT A SINGLE DOSE)
--Don Maisch
                        However, research by the Royal Adelaide Hospital on
                        mice with a gene
                        making them more susceptible to lymphoma found that
                        those subjected to
                        a single dose of electromagnetic energy equivalent
                        to that emitted by a
                        mobile phone had a 40 per cent higher incidence of
                        the disease.

                        The executive director of the Australian Mobile
                        Telecommunications
                        Association, Mr Peter Russell, said the advice of
                        the World Health
                        Organisation was that "based on the scientific
                        evidence available today,
                        there are no adverse health effects for people
                        using mobile phones today".

                        All the phones sold in Australia had to comply with
                        safety standards "that
                        are already 50 times higher than they need to be".



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