Subject:  Australian report on Bruce Hocking (Benson).
Date:     Sat, 14 Oct 2000 042017 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       guru 
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...........From EMF-L.........

I think it should be noted that TELSTRA is already counting on a favorable
report from the WHO (World Health Organization).  See ****** below.

However, there are reports circulating out of Geneva that the "Repacholi
pro-industry" clique (that now runs WHO's EMF effort) is being subjected
to severe scrutiny by WHO's new General Director.  Could it be that 
TELSTRA's reliance on a forthcoming "bail-out" by a friendly, pro-industry
WHO will prove to be misplaced confidance???.....guru.....

Ref:  See "Who's Director has her eye on EMF project" in latest issue of
MICROWAVE NEWS.....


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: From Sarah Benson
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 16:14:03 +1100
From: "Benson, Sarah (Sen L. Allison)" 
To: "'roy@emfguru.com'" 

'MOBILES ARE GETTING ON OUR NERVES'

SUN-HERALD, 8 OCTOBER, 2000  (Sydney, Australia)

by Fia Cumming

A former chief medical officer for Telstra claims to have found that
exposure to microwaves through the use of mobile phones can cause changes to
nerves behind the ears.

Medical researcher Bruce Hocking has told a Senate inquiry into mobile phone
radiation the research explained why many people had uncomfortable feelings
in their heads after using the phones.

"This is the first trime that  am aware of that there hasd been a clear
demonstration of a health effect in humans attributable to a mobile phone,"
Dr Hocking said.

Dr Hocking was Telstra's chief medical officer for 18 years until 1995.
In 1990-91 he began to notice a pattern where people, both customers and
telstra staff, complained about feelings in their heads after using mobile
phones.

He prepared an internal report on complaints from Telstra staff and referred
them to to a Sydney neurologist.  His job was later abolished.
Dr Hocking and clinical neurophysicist Rod Westerman recently completed a
detailed study of one man with ongoing symptoms.

It found a marked difference in the rsponsiveness of nerves behind and just
in front of the man's right ear.

"The fact is that he got the changes on the side of the head where he used
the phone," Dr Hocking said.

Although it was only one case, he said it was a "significant warning" that
mobile phones were likely to be disturbing nerve functions.

A Telstra spokeswoman said: "There are many studies that havn't found
adverse neurological effects and Telstra will of course rely on expert
advice from groups like the World Health Organisation.******  We assess 
all the different studies and reports as well."

She said Dr Hocking took a redundancy package as part of the corporation's
decision to outsource its medical advice, along with many other functions.
Dr Hocking also gave the inquiry a new analysis of his controversial
research on leukaemia in children living within 4km of television towers on
Sydney's lower north shore.

It showed that 10 years after being diagnosed with leukaemia, the children
living closest to the towers had only half the survival rate of those
further away.

Dr Hocking had previously found that there was a 50 per cent increased risk
of children developing leukaemia in the areas next to the towers.


This article was accompanied by a diagram of the nerves in question.


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