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Medical Research
Here is a snippet of the growing evidence:

Says Dr. Neil Cherry, a biophysicist at Lincoln University in New Zealand: "Public health surveys of people living in the vicinity of cell site base stations should be being carried out now, and continue progressively over the next two decades. This is because prompt effects such as miscarriage, cardiac disruption, sleep disturbance and chronic fatigue could well be early indicators of the adverse health effects. Symptoms of reduced immune system competence, cardiac problems, especially of the arrhythmic type, and cancers, especially brain tumor and leukemia, are probable."
 Biomedical engineer Mariana Alves-Pereira says exposure to cell phone towers can lead to vibroacoustic disease. "From what I understand, some of the complaints are similar in what is seen in vibroacoustic disease patients, which are people who develop a disease caused by low frequency noise exposure," she said. Symptoms can include mood swings, indigestion, ulcers and joint pain. 

Dr. Gerard Hyland, a physicist who was nominated twice for the Nobel Prize in medicine, says, "Existing safety guidelines for cell phone towers are completely inadequate ... Quite justifiably, the public remains skeptical of attempts by governments and industry to reassure them that all is well, particularly given the unethical way in which they often operate symbiotically so as to promote their own vested interests." 
According to the Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, "Studies have shown that even at low levels of this radiation, there is evidence of damage to cell tissue and DNA, and it has been linked to brain tumors, cancer, suppressed immune function, depression, miscarriage, Alzheimer's disease, and numerous other serious illnesses."
According to Dr. W. Löscher of the Institute of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmacy of the Veterinary School of Hannover in Germany, dairy cows that were kept in close proximity to a TV and cell phone tower for two years had a reduction in milk production along with increased health problems and behavioral abnormalities. In an experiment, one cow with abnormal behavior was taken away from the antenna and the behavior subsided within five days. When the cow was brought back near the antenna, the symptoms returned.
 
Study of the health of people living in the vicinity of mobile phone base stations. (Santini et al.) - Pathol Biol (Paris) [Pathologie Biologie (Paris)] 2002; 50: 369  Found significant health effects on people living within 300 metres of mobile phone base stations. Conclusions include the recommendation: "it is advisable that mobile phone base stations not be sited closer than 300 meters to populations"  . Fatigue, headache, sleep disruption and loss of memory were among the symptoms reported. 
Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) - Study for the Netherlands Ministries of Economic Affairs, Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, and Health, Welfare and Sport Effects of Global Communications System Radio-Frequency Fields On WellBeing and Cognitive Function of Human Subjects With and Without Subjective Complaints" (September 2003) Found significant effects on well-being, according to a number of internationally-recognized criteria (including headaches, muscle fatigue/pain, dizziness etc) from 3G mast emissions well below accepted 'safety' levels (less than 1/25,000th of ICNIRP guidelines).  
 The microwave syndrome - further aspects of a Spanish Study - Oberfeld Gerd1, Navarro A. Enrique3, Portoles Manue12, Maestu Ceferino4,Gomez-Perretta Claudio2 1. Public Health Department Salzburg, Austria 2. University Hospital La Fe. Valencia, Spain 3. Department of Applied Physics, University Valencia, Spain 4.
Foundation European Bioelectromagnetism (FEB) Madrid, Spain - Presented at an International Conference in Kos (Greece), 2004.This study found significant ill-health effects in those living in the vicinity of two GSM mobile phone base stations. They observed that: "The strongest five associations found are depressive tendency, fatigue, sleeping disorder, difficulty in concentration and cardiovascular problems." As their conclusion the research team wrote: "Based on the data of this study the advice would be to strive for levels not higher than 0.02 V/m for the sum total, which is equal to a power density of 0.0001 µW/cni2 or1 µW/m2, which is the indoor exposure value for GSM base stations proposed on empirical evidence by the Public Health Office of the Government of Salzburg in 2002."

Increased incidence of cancer near a cell-phone transmitter station. Ronni Wolf MD1, Danny Wolf MD2 1. The Dermatology Unit, Kaplan Medical Center, Rechovot, and the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, ISRAEL. 2. The Pediatric Outpatient Clinic, Hasharon Region, Kupat Holim, ISRAEL. Published in: International Journal of Cancer Prevention Volume 1, No. 2, April 2004. This study, based on medical records of people living within 350 metres of along-established phone mast, showed a four fold increased incidence of cancer generally compared with the general population of Israel, and a tenfold increase specifically among women, compared with the surrounding locality further from the mast.    

Naila Study, Germany (November 2004) - Report by researchers (five medical doctors).  Following the call by Wolfram König, President of the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (Federal Agency for radiation protection), to all doctors of medicine to collaborate actively in the assessment of the risk posed by cellular radiation, the aim of our study was to examine whether people living close to cellular transmitter antennas were exposed to a heightened risk of taking ill with malignant tumors. The basis of the data used for the survey were PC files of the case histories of patients between the years 1994 and 2004. While adhering to data protection, the personal data of almost 1.000 patients were evaluated for this study, which was completed without any external financial support. It is intended to continue the project in the form of a register.  The result of the study shows that the proportion of newly developing cancer cases was significantly higher among those patients who had lived during the past ten years at a distance of up to 400 metres from the cellular transmitter site, which bas been in operation since 1993, compared to those patients living further away, and that the patients fell ill on average 8 years earlier. In the years 1999-2004, i.e. after five years' operation of the transmitting installation, the relative risk of getting cancer had trebled for the residents of the area in the proximity of the installation compared to the inhabitants of Naila further from the mast.

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