Stephan: A number of you have written me to ask if I have anything further to add to the recent reports about cell phones, and whether I believe they are carcinogenic. Here is something, from a solidly reliable source, that may give you a deeper insight into what is going on and, yes, I think the evidence is becoming quite clear that micro-waving a small part of your brain each day is not a good idea.
It’s not easy to reach unanimous agreement on anything to do with cell phone radiation. And when it comes to cell phones and cancer, forget about it. But the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) nearly pulled it off. On Tuesday, May 31, more than two dozen scientists and doctors from 14 countries -a group IARC Director Christopher Wild called ‘the world’s leading experts’- issued a joint statement that cell phone and other types of radiofrequency (RF) and microwave radiation might cause cancer.
Near the close of the eight-day meeting, there were six holdouts, but by the end only one dissenting voice remained in the room. (The group agreed that the person’s name should remain secret.) IARC released the news: Long-term use of a cell phone might lead to two different types of tumors, glioma, a type of brain cancer, and acoustic neuroma, a tumor of the auditory nerve.
Another member of the working group would have also dissented had he not walked out of the meeting before the final vote. Microwave News has learned that Peter Inskip of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) left early and did not return. Aleea Farrakh Khan of the NCI Office of Media Relations […]
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JOHN GEVER, Senior Editor - MedPage Today
Stephan: It must require a massive amount of denial, and disassociation to live with yourself having caused the death, agony, and crippling mental effects that have arisen from the wars you have created.
Neuron damage in explosion-related ‘mild’ traumatic brain injuries can be more extensive than previously thought and is not necessarily related to the severity of clinical symptoms, researchers said.
Among 63 U.S. soldiers evacuated from Iraq or Afghanistan and diagnosed clinically with blast-related mild traumatic brain injury, diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) revealed significant damage to neuronal axons that was not evident on CT or conventional MRI scans, according to David L. Brody, MD, PhD, of Washington University in St. Louis, and colleagues.
Statistical analysis of the DTI scans showed that abnormalities were significantly more common in the middle cerebellar peduncles, cingulum bundles, and right orbitofrontal white matter in these soldiers than in 21 others with blast exposure but no diagnosis of brain injury.
Yet only 18 of the 63 brain-injured soldiers had definitively abnormal findings from the DTI scans when analyzed individually, suggesting that the extent of axonal damage did not correlate strongly with clinical symptoms.
‘Traumatic brain injury remains a clinical diagnosis,’ Brody and colleagues wrote in the June 2 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
However, they also argued that DTI could be included in triage and treatment planning if clinical utility is eventually established, because it is easy to perform with […]
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Stephan: We are witnessing something quite extraordinary. The buffoons and grotesques that make up the conservative leadership are the symptoms not the cause. The truth we have to face is that a substantial percentage of voting America supports this. They have been captured by the dark side of the American psyche and now actively seek the country's destruction in the name of ideology. In a fact free world fantasy is what matters.
House Republican appropriators have rejected President Obama’s call to have a ‘Sputnik moment
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TSUYOSHI INAJIMA, - Bloomberg
Stephan: More on the Fukushima disaster. This event has shifted the world trend, and has influenced countries to end the nuclear madness, but the cost to the Japanese is so horrible it is a blood sacrifice.
Radioactive water accumulating in Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant may start overflowing from service trenches in five days, potentially increasing the contamination from the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. has been manually pumping water into overheating reactors after cooling systems broke down and much of that has overflowed into basements and trenches. The water is rising at a rate that means it will overflow as early as June 6, Bloomberg calculations from the company’s data show.
‘There is still a risk of radioactive water leaking into the sea,
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TANYA SOMANADER, - Think Progress
Stephan: The political burkha the conservatives seek to throw over women to control them continues, this is the latest in this trend. More than 50 per cent of the population is women, why are you putting up with this?
In the race to be the first, the Indiana GOP plowed through common sense and internal opposition to pass a law stripping Planned Parenthood of public funding. When signing the bill, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R) said non-abortion services would ‘remain readily available
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