Monday, December 22, 2008

Microwave Radiation Heart and Kidney Damage

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From: Paul Doyon

Since I found one article on this written in 1999 Scientists Add Kidney Damage To The List of Mobile Phone Ills: Daily Mail By: Sarah Harris (12/13/99) http://cprnews.com/articles/PhonesCauseCancer/CPR-News--Scientists-Add-Kidney-Damage-To-The-List-of-Mobile-Phone--Ills.html ,
I was able to only find one more article and two scientific papers written by George Sajin on the subject (listed below). However, there has been virtually no mention of this research and no further research along these lines. It seems as if this extremely important research got buried. I wonder why!

MOBILES 'COULD DAMAGE YOUR HEART AND KIDNEYS'; New health warning.

Sunday Mirror, Dec 12, 1999
by RUPERT HAMER
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_19991212/ai_n14497107/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1

A DISTURBING new report claims that mobile phones could cause serious long-term damage to the heart and kidneys.

Scientists found that exposing red blood cells to low-level radiation caused them leak a subsance called haemoglobin. The iron-based part of a red blood cell is vital because it carries oxygen around the body.

But if the haemoglobin leaks from the cells then it accumulates in the kidneys and heart, which could seriously damage your health.

Professor Edward Tuddenham, a haematologist at the Imperial College Medical School, in Hammersmith Hospital, West London, said: "Generally at a low level the body deals with these things, but if it was exposed over a long period it could lead to complications.

"The accumulation of haemoglobin in the body could result in heart disease or kidney stones."

He added: "I believe this study should be followed up.

"It certainly warrants further work."

And Dr Martin Howard, consultant haematologist at York District Hospital, North Yorks, added: "The findings of this study are interesting. More research in this field is definitely necessary."

The study was carried out by Dr George Sajin at the European Research Institute for Electronic Components based in Bucharest.

Samples of blood were exposed to varying degrees of microwave radiation over a period of between 10 and 60 hours.

Even at levels lower than those emitted by mobile phones, the cells leaked haemoglobin.

The new evidence is likely to fuel fears over the increasingly widespread use of mobile phones throughout the world.

In the United Kingdom alone around 16 million people regularly use mobiles.

The Government-backed National Radiological Protection Board maintains mobile phone radiation levels are well within safety limits.

But other studies have already shown links between the phones and long-term memory loss, high blood pressure and premature ageing.

The phones have also been linked to cancer, leukaemia, multiple sclerosis and Alzeimers disease.

The Government is set to announce further funds for research into possible health affects of mobiles early next year.

Copyright 1999 MGN LTD
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved.


CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILIZATION OF HUMAN ERYTHROCYTES.

Measurements show a time increasing of the osmotic resis-. tance of exposed erythrocytes, ...


ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/22/19132/00884197.pdf

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=00884197

I would also love to get a copy of the following article by George Sajin. Curiously, though, there is no mention of this article on PubMed!

Membrane damage of human red blood cells induced by low power microwave radiation Publication Year: 1995
The following article certainly signals a connection between heart and kidney disease and the above hemoglobin leakage could certainly be a missing link here:

Kidney trouble speeds up heart disease Cardiac problems can also trigger kidney destruction, study finds

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19418890/

Wellington may restrict cellphone towers

http://www.banthetower.co.nz/blogs/index.php?itemid=148
By DAVE BURGESS - The Dominion Post
Wednesday, 26 November 2008

Public anger over a proliferation of cellphone towers and broadband cabinets has prompted Wellington City Council to look at tightening controls on communication companies.

Council planners have received applications covering more than 170 sites from telecommunication companies this year. They include more than 100 roadside cabinets, each the size of a large fridge, to be installed in Wellington as part of Telecom’s "cabinetisation" programme for faster broadband. Also included are 70 applications from NZ Communications, which is establishing a national mobile network. Complaints from residents and business owners over the proliferation of towers and cabinets prompted Mayor Kerry Prendergast to seek a review of the council’s district plan rules.

The rules allow almost all telecommunication installations on council-owned reserve land, and on land next to roads, to proceed unhindered.
Ms Prendergast said the recent installation of two separate towers by Vodafone and NZ Communications in Churton Park had angered residents and sparked the review.
"Residents are annoyed that the telecommunications companies are siting new infrastructure on reserve land, or on a roadside, and the council can’t stop them doing so."
She said people were especially concerned at the height of some cellphone towers, and an apparent reluctance of companies to share the same tower for their equipment.

"Telecommunications equipment is essential to our collective welfare and to keeping Wellington an internationally competitive capital city.
"However, the installation of this infrastructure should be balanced against the wishes of residents not to have their views, and enjoyment of life, compromised."
Churton Park resident Malcolm Weight said there was concern in the community about the visual impact of the towers, and whether prolonged exposure to tower emissions could make people ill.
"What I think should change is that these companies should have to apply for resource consent in the usual way so people can send in submissions and voice their concerns to the council."

The review would include an investigation into how the council could effectively use the new National Environmental Standards, introduced by the Government last month.
Though the standards set limits on the height and size of telecommunication masts and antennas and cabinets, , council officers are uncertain how to police them.
Telecom spokesman Ian Bonnar said the telecommunications company had always worked in line with national guidelines and local council district plans.

"Generally the National Environmental Standards provide technical specifications for the infrastructure, and it is the district plan that determines the location." He said Telecom would discuss the planned rule changes if invited by the council.