EHT Kicks Off Global Campaign for Safer Cell Phones!
April 10th, 2011
Environmental Health Trust (EHT), a nonprofit organization dedicated to identifying and controlling environmental health hazards, launched its Global Campaign for Safer Cell Phones in a dozen nations this month.
The campaign’s goal is to promote the public right to know about ways to reduce cell phone radiation, providing open-source resources that educate and motivate health professionals, teachers, parents and students about simple and safer ways to use cell phones.
Devra Lee Davis, PhD, MPH, President of EHT, launched the campaign with a lecture on April 9 at 2:00 pm at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Lecture Hall 205, in Toronto, Canada. In addition to discussing the campaign’s goals, Dr. Davis will release a new pamphlet prepared by physicians on cell phone safety, as well as a set of creative warning stickers to be placed on phones.
“This global campaign is designed to alert the planet’s five billion cell phone customers that heavy use of phones next to the body increases infertility, cancer and neurological problems,” said Dr. Davis. “We’re launching this campaign in Canada because this country is about to elect a new government, and the government has a duty to warn its citizens about the dangers of that cell phone in their pocket, and protect the basic right to know about such risks.”
The physicians pamphlet, titled “Cell Phones & Health: Simple Precautions Make Sense,” was created by a group of leading US and French oncologists and neurosurgeons. It outlines steps for protecting one’s family from cell phone radiation and shares recent findings about the negative impact this radiation can have on the health of both adults and children.
“Every cell phone comes with a set of safety warnings in small print that few people read,” said Dr. Davis. “They have a right to know what cell phone manufacturers are warning about their products, and this brochure is designed to spotlight that information.”
The idea for the cell phone safety sticker campaign came from an EHT initiative being carried out with the Jackson, Wyoming school system and Town Council. “We believe that kids are more likely to pay attention to cell phone safety if the warnings come in the form of stickers they can place on their phones,” she said.
Dr. Davis, who contributed to winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with Al Gore, has testified before a U.S. Senate panel about the dangers of cell phone use, is the author of Disconnect: The Truth about Cell Phone Radiation, What the Industry Has Done to Hide It, and How to Protect Your Family (Dutton, 2010). She is the first Director of the National Academy of Science’s Board of Toxicology and Environmental Studies, founder and former Director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh’s Hillman Cancer Center and is a National Cancer Center Institute Senior Fellow in Cancer Epidemiology.
Determined to protect children from the dangers of cell phone irradiation, Dr. Davis conceived the Campaign to serve as a model for communities across the US and around the globe. The campaign website provides access to free tools such as “safety cards” that list safer cell phone practices, appealing to teachers, health care professionals, parents, and students alike.
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Tags: campaign for safer cell phones, cell phone, cell phone cancer, Cell Phone Safety, Dr. Devra Davis, Environmental Health Trust
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More Federal Oversight Needed for Cell Phone Safety
April 9th, 2011
NATIONAL JOURNAL: Phoning It In? Some of the federal government’s own scientists say that it’s not doing enough to determine whether cell phones pose a health risk.
The Federal Communications Commission has not updated the standards for cell phone safety since 1996. Greg Lotz of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, along with others, speak with the National Journal about the need for more federal oversight to regulate cell phone safety.
This article appeared in the Saturday, April 9, 2011 edition of National Journal and was published online at http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/cell-phone-safety-ignored-in-washington-20110407?mrefid=site_search.
Tags: cell phone, cell phone cancer, Cell Phone Safety, FCC
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April 8-11 2011: Total Health 11 in Toronto
April 8th, 2011
Dr. Devra Davis will be speaking on the topic of “The Truth About Cell Phone Radiation” at Total Health 11 in Toronto Canada.
The conference is April 8-11 2011
Tags: cell phone cancer, cell phone radiation, Cell Phone Safety, Dr. Devra Davis, safer phone zone
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Dangers of Mobile Phone Radiation: Sonya Feldhoff interviews Dr. Devra Davis
April 8th, 2011
Dr. Devra Davis discusses the dangers of Mobile Phone radiation with Sonya Feldhoff on the Australian radio program Drive.
Mobile phones have become a permanent fixture in our lives but what effect do they have on your health?
Dr. Devra Davis, a visiting professor at Harvard and author of the book Disconnect, has done studies into mobile phone radiation and how it effects a person’s brain, their cells and fertility.
After analysing the results Dr Davis never keeps her phone on her body or in her pocket and always uses a headset, hear the interview here.
Tags: Brain-Tumor Risk, campaign for safer cell phones, cell phone cancer, cell phone radiation, Cell Phone Safety, Dr. Devra Davis, safer phone zone
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Mobilewise.org has recently launched its new facebook page
April 5th, 2011
Nasreen Hosein Mobilewise.org has recently launched its new facebook page! Take a visit and show your support
Tags: campaign for safer cell phones, cell phone cancer, cell phone radiation, Cell Phone Safety, mobile wise, mobilewise
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Cell Phone Radiation – What Could be the Long Term Effects?
March 19th, 2011
FOX News interviews Dr. Devra Davis, founder of Environmental Health Trust and author of Disconnect, about the long term effects of Cell Phone Radiation. Watch the Interview.
Tags: cell phone, cell phone cancer, cell phone radiation, Dr. Devra Davis, Environmental Health Trust
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Dr. Devra Davis Responds to Latest Study by Leaders of WHO
February 17th, 2011
Environmental Health Trust responds to the largest study to date on cell phone risks, published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine on January 27. Dr. Devra Davis summarizes that the authors are warning people to be careful about how they use cell phones until additional research is complete. The authors of the study found that individuals who average 27 minutes of cell phone use a day have a 50% greater risk of developing malignant brain tumors on the same side of the head where they held their phones.
Tags: Brain-Tumor Risk, cell phone, cell phone cancer, Cell Phone Safety, Dr. Devra Davis, Environmental Health Trust, WHO
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Links Found Between Brain Tumors and Cell Phones
January 26th, 2011
An Editorial in the BMJ Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine discusses the possible links between cell phones and brain-tumor risk based on multiple studies.
This editorial was published in the BMJ Journal of Occupational and Environment Medicine and can be found at http://oem.bmj.com/content/early/2010/12/15/oem.2010.061358.
Tags: Brain-Tumor Risk, cell phone, cell phone cancer, cell phone radiation
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