Re: Are AM Radio Waves Harmful?

From: Robert Morrisette (writer77_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:36:37 GMT

This is total bunk.

"B. Raleigh" <raleigh@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:41218651.34D3A196@nospam.com...
> By Stephen Leahy
> Aug. 16, 2004
>
> Korean scientists have found that regions near AM radio-broadcasting
> towers
> had 70 percent more leukemia deaths than those without.
>
> The study, to be published in an upcoming issue of the International
> Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, also found that
> cancer
> deaths were 29 percent higher near such transmitters.
> .
> Two years ago an Italian study found death rates from leukemia increased
> dramatically for residents living within two miles of Vatican Radio's
> powerful array of transmitters in Rome.
>
> The Koreans looked at the death rates in 10 regions with AM
> radio-transmitting towers broadcasting at more than 100 kilowatts and
> compared them with control areas without transmitters. The substantially
> higher cancer mortality in those who lived within two kilometers of the
> towers led researchers to conclude that more investigation was needed.
>
> However, they also said their study did not prove a direct link between
> cancer and the transmitters.
>
> "There have been many studies like these, and they aren't very
> convincing,"
> said Mary McBride, an epidemiologist at the British Columbia Cancer
> Agency.
> Many other factors could have contributed to those cancer rates, said
> McBride, who has headed a number of similar studies and found no direct
> link.
>
> Equally important is that studies in the lab don't show how radio waves
> can
> produce cancers, she said.
> Debate continues over the health effects of radio waves from
> transmitters,
> both large and small, and other forms of electromagnetic fields,
> including
> power lines and microwaves.
>
> Sam Milham, a Seattle-based epidemiologist and a pioneer in
> electromagnetic-field research, is convinced there are health effects.
> "Lots
> of research papers from around the world show increased cancers near
> transmitters, although TV and FM transmitters are more often
> implicated."
>
> Moreover, many lab studies show low-frequency EMF disrupt living cells,
> Milham asserts. Critics like McBride say such results are often
> difficult to
> reproduce at other labs. Milham says that's because of differences in
> the
> Earth's magnetic field and stray EMF.
>
> In an attempt to settle some of this, California's Department of Health
> Services reviewed all the current studies of EMF risks from power lines,
> wiring and appliances in 2002. It found no conclusive evidence of harm.
> However, links to childhood leukemia, adult brain cancer and Lou
> Gehrig's
> disease could not be ruled out.
>
> "I'm convinced that politics and corporate interests are behind denials
> (that say) there are no health effects," said Milham.
>
> Meanwhile, the FDA and the World Health Organization are urging more
> studies, especially of radio waves from cell phones.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,64579,00.html?tw=rss.TOP
>
> (See also related stories at the website).

Relevant Pages

  • Are AM Radio Waves Harmful?
    ... had 70 percent more leukemia deaths than those without. ... deaths were 29 percent higher near such transmitters. ... higher cancer mortality in those who lived within two kilometers of the ... is convinced there are health effects. ...
    (sci.med)
  • Re: OT: smoking deaths
    ... the ACS is reporting cancer deaths, ... The National Cancer Institutewho reports the ... >work in the proximity of smokers. ...
    (comp.os.os2.misc)
  • Re: Cancer "curers" miss out again
    ... Chemotherapy is one of three main treatment protocols of conventional medicine, one which millions of people worldwide have been put through. ... Lately, a recent study in Britain has raised serious questions about chemotherapy, in particular the role it plays in hastening and even causing the death of late-stage cancer sufferers. ... The study had been carried out by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Deaths in Britain, whose members are mostly taken from British medical royal colleges. ...
    (misc.health.alternative)
  • Re: Michael Crichton explains it all -- or why it cant all be explained
    ... Encyclopedia Britannica, emphasis mine: Beyond 32 immediate deaths, ... The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl ... workers, and nine children with thyroid cancer), and ESTIMATED that as ... Currently the rate of thyroid cancer among children in Belarus is 40 ...
    (rec.sport.football.college)
  • Re: OT: smoking deaths
    ... the ACS is reporting cancer deaths, ... The National Cancer Institutewho reports the ... work in the proximity of smokers. ...
    (comp.os.os2.misc)