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mobile phones and brain tumours –a public health concern

dr. vini gautam khurana

Dr Vini Gautam Khurana is a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced neurosurgery Fellowship in cerebral vascular and tumour microsurgery from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds active medical registration with the Medical Boards of the Australian Capital Territory and the State of New South Wales, Australia. He is the only Australian medical graduate to have completed an entire neurosurgical training programme, PhD and Fellowship in the United States of America, where he trained and worked for 10 years. ~ read more and also brain-surgery.net.au - Dr. Vini G. Khurana MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACS

dr. khurana has written a research paper the aim of which is to:

"[S]cientifically and objectively review data suggesting or refuting a relationship between mobile phone usage and the occurrence of malignant brain tumours. Following fourteen months of research involving a comprehensive review of over 100 sources in the recent medical and scientific literature in addition to the Press and Internet, the author concludes that there is a growing body of statistically significant evidence for a relationship between the overall length of use of a mobile phone and the delayed occurrence of a brain tumour on the same side of the head as the "preferred side" for mobile phone usage. The elevated risk (increased odds) appears to be in the order of 2 - 4 fold."

KEY MESSAGES OF THIS WORK:

• Mobile phones are convenient and frequently invaluable, yet exposure to their electromagnetic radiation is invisible. Therefore, any danger this exposure poses may be easily dismissed.

• Exposure is long-term and its effects on the body, particularly its electrical organ, the brain, are compounded by numerous other simultaneous long-term exposures including continuous waves from radio and TV transmitter towers, cordless phone base stations, power lines, and wireless/WiFi computing devices.

• A malignant brain tumour represents a life-ending diagnosis in the vast majority of those diagnosed. There is a significant and increasing body of evidence, to date at least 8 comprehensive clinical studies internationally and one long-term meta-analysis, for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours.

• Taken together, the data presented below compellingly suggest that the link between mobile phones and brain tumours should no longer be regarded as a myth. Individual and class action lawsuits have been filed in the USA, and at least one has already been successfully prosecuted, regarding the cell phone-brain tumour link.

• The "incubation time" or "latency" (i.e., the time from commencement of regular mobile phone usage to the diagnosis of a malignant solid brain tumour in a susceptible individual) may be in the order of 10-20 years. In the years 2008-2012, we will have reached the appropriate length of follow-up time to begin to definitively observe the impact of this global technology on brain tumour incidence rates.

• There is currently enough evidence and technology available to warrant Industry and Governments alike in taking immediate steps to reduce exposure of consumers to mobile phone-related electromagnetic radiation and to make consumers clearly aware of potential dangers and how to use this technology sensibly and safely.

• It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking, and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation, including very young children.

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A child's brain is structurally developing well into adolescence, has a greater relative water content and lower volume compared with an adult's brain, and subject to more "plasticity" (structural and functional reprogramming) at a microscopic level. It is logical to expect that exposing a child's brain to cell phone radiation is likely to cause cellular damage that, in due course, may lead to brain cancer. Children should NOT use mobile or cellular phones unless in an emergency.

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click here to download dr. khurana's research paper in a 69 page .pdf 382kb

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espn columnist pat forde excoriates big brown trainer rick dutrow

wow. this guy must have lost a bundle on big brown.

excerpt:

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com
ELMONT, N.Y. -- How now, Brown Crown?

How now, Rick Dutrow, do you explain the biggest bust since Morganna the Kissing Bandit?

How now does it feel to be the freshly humbled fool of thoroughbred racing, after your waltz to the Triple Crown turned into a disaster, a last-place finish, a Brownout? How now do you justify all the obnoxious bragging about your horse, Big Brown? How now do you possibly answer for having flagrantly disrespected the difficulty of the task before you?

You remember, babe: Winning the Belmont and the first Triple Crown in 30 years was a "foregone conclusion." You dismissed the field by saying, "These horses just cannot run with Big Brown." You envisioned winning this race "by daylight, easily. I just don't see no dogfight in this race."

It might not have been a dogfight. But there was one dog in the race: the Brown Bomber. This was the worst performance by a Brown since W. told Mike he was doing a heck of a job handling Katrina.

When it was over and Big Brown had been eased by jockey Kent Desormeaux while long shot Da' Tara won wire-to-wire, the disbelief at the mammoth old track was palpable. Dutrow walked with the colt back to the stable area with his blue shirt plastered to his skin. It was the definition of flop sweat.

The cocky trainer, who had all the answers for five weeks, had none. If bettors had a dollar for every time Dutrow said, "I don't know" when he finally talked to the media Saturday evening, they might have won back everything they lost on Big Brown. ~ read more

video: da'tara upsets big brown's triple crown at 140th belmont stakes

da'tara wins the belmont; upsets big brown

louisianan kent desormeaux big brown's jockey


video link: jockey kent desormeaux talks about big brown's performance at belmont

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140th running of the belmont stakes 07 june 2008

belmont video
big brown at kentucky derby and preakness stakes videos here

www.nyra.com/index_belmont.html

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rfk

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." ~ Robert F. Kennedy, University of Cape Town, South Africa. N.U.S.A.S. "Day of Affirmation" Speech June 6th, 1966 transcript & audio

will barack and michelle obama's typical negro behavior cost them the election?

hartford connecticut police release video of hit and run; public assistance requested in identifying suspects

NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, June 4, 2008

HARTFORD POLICE RELEASE VIDEO OF HIT AND RUN;
PUBLIC ASSISTANCE REQUESTED IN IDENTIFYING SUSPECTS

(Hartford) - On Friday, May 30, 2008, at approximately 5:45 p.m. Hartford Police were responding to an unrelated call for service when one of the responding officers came upon a pedestrian lying in the road in front of 33 Park Street. The pedestrian was found to be suffering from head injuries after being struck by a motor vehicle. Emergency Medical Services were called and transported the pedestrian, later identified as Angel Torres, 78 years of age, of Hartford, to Hartford Hospital.

Witnesses reported that two vehicles were being operated in a reckless manner North on Main Street. The front vehicle, described as a tan older model Toyota, was being chased by a blue or black older model Honda. The vehicles proceeded through a red traffic control signal on Main Street taking a left onto Westbound Park Street. The vehicles crossed the center line, traveling against traffic, in front of 33 Park Street where the Honda struck Mr. Torres. The two vehicles continued West on Park Street and turned right onto Northbound John Street, evading the scene.

Mr. Torres is listed in critical condition at Hartford Hospital, paralyzed from the neck down.

The Hartford Police Crime Scene Division has taken control of the investigation. The incident was caught on video which has been enhanced by the Connecticut State Police Forensic Science Laboratory. The video clip showing the suspect vehicles can be viewed by clicking on the link below or by visiting the HPD's website, www.hartford.gov/police.

Hartford police ask anyone with information regarding this incident and/or the identity of the suspects to please contact Crime Scene Division (CSD) Detective Michael Chauvin at 860-757-4229 or CSD Commander Sergeant Jason Thody at 860-757-4225.

sb87: cenla dems herbert dixon and chris roy jr vote to eliminate state income tax but rino rethuglican chris hazel says no!

although in rep. hazel's case you really cant be sure that he understood the question.

sb87 is the much ballyhooed bill by state senator buddy shaw to reduce the stelly tax and give louisianaians a much needed significant break on personal income taxes.

sometime today sb87 was being debated on the state house floor when representative walker hines offered an amendment (see house floor amendment #4040) to over time abolish the state income tax - 22 representatives voted for rep. hines amendment:

hines motion to adopt

video: barack obama grovels before his ashkenazi masters at aipac 04 june 2008

Video of McCain's handler at work
Lieberman was also watching over McCain at the Wall, and during the SuperBowl. How obvious does the Jewish control have to be? McCain and other officials are puppets source

lbj on tape: admits murder of ngo dinh diem

lbj admits to white house involvement in coup of south vietnamese president diem on 01 november 1963 in a conversation with eugene mccarthy on 01 february 1966.