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Doctors report 50% hearing loss among cellphone users
India	Created: 15 May 2013
MUMBAI : Excessive use of cellphones can cause the deadliest of health hazards among users, from hearing loss to neuro-endocrine disruption, hormonal imbalance and cancer. Over the last decade, cellular phone usage has grown exponentially with the introduction of new communication systems and newer and smaller phone models. But it is a mark of how much people use cellphones these days, that doctors report as much as a 50% hearing loss among users. Dr Divya Prabhat, ENT surgeon with Bhatia and Wadia hospitals, said he had been getting many patients who complain of pain in the ears and even hearing loss. "The most common complaint is that after they hang up, the ears get hot. Many patients come with complaints of tinnitus, where there is a buzzing in the ears. This also results in irritability and lack of concentration," he said. But the most serious ENT problem is hearing loss. "I recently got a 45-year-old patient who had 30% hearing loss in her right ear, as she would be on phone all the time. When I told her to talk on the phone with the left ear, three months later she came with a 50% hearing loss in the left ear," Dr Prab-hat said. These are temporary threshold shifts, he said, meaning that these problems can be cured, when the habit is changed early. But if a person continues to use the phone excessively, it may turn into a permanent problem. Prolonged cellphone radiation is said to cause cancer. In a study published in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India in 2008, endocrinologist Dr Shashank Joshi, along with other doctors, had shown how electromagnetic rays from a cellphone cause neuro-endocrine disruption. "Apart from cancer caused by radiation, the cell phone culture increases sedentary work habits. It also reduces sleep time. This causes blood pressure, diabetes, and cardio-vascular diseases," said Dr Joshi. Doctors say the gadget addiction also leads to hormonal imbalance. "Hormones like endocrine and melatonine are disrupted big time by excessive cell phone usage. There may be a discharge of negative hormones because of anticipation of a negative call. This tends to increase stress in a person," said Dr Joshi. It is good, therefore, to decrease talking over the mobile phone, and use a landline or texting, said Dr Joshi.
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Source: Sylvie/Agnes Ingvarsdottir

We are told it is all about getting business working agin: So WHY is it IMPORTANT for BUSINESS to DOWNLOAD a FILM in 1 sec?
South Korea	Created: 15 May 2013
Samsung claims 5G breakthrough New technology paves the way for movie downloads in less than a second, Samsung claims. Despite the fact that major countries including the UK and China have yet to complete their 4G mobile phone network roll-out, South Korean Samsung claims its new technology could offer “ubiquitous” access to ultra high-speed networks operating at 100 times current speeds and offering regular gigabit access. 5G networks could allow “a wide range of services such as 3D movies and games, real-time streaming of ultra high-definition content, and remote medical services,” Samsung claimed in a blog post. The ‘mmWave Mobile Technology’ is the first system that claims to be fully fledged, although research into 5G has been going on in laboratories around the world for some time. Last year, Britain’s University of Surrey announced £35m funding for a research centre back by Huawei, Samsung, Fujitsu, Telefonica and others. Up to now, however, scientists have believed that high-frequency wavebands were generally not suitable for long-range communications required by mobile networks. “The implementation of a high-speed 5G cellular network requires a broad band of frequencies, much like an increased water flow requires a wider pipe,” said Samsung. “While it was a recognized option, it has been long believed that the millimeter-wave bands had limitations in transmitting data over long distances due to its unfavorable propagation characteristics.” While current 4G networks in the UK use bands as low as 800MHz, Samsung’s new research has concentrated at much higher frequencies and the company claims it has worked over distances up to 2km. “Samsung’s new adaptive array transceiver technology has proved itself as a successful solution,” the company claims. “It transmits data in the millimeter-wave band at a frequency of 28 GHz at a speed of up to 1.056 Gbps to a distance of up to 2 kilometers. The adaptive array transceiver technology, using 64 antenna elements, can be a viable solution for overcoming the radio propagation loss at millimeter-wave bands, much higher than the conventional frequency bands ranging from several hundred MHz to several GHz.” A commercially available 5G network is not anticipated until after 2020, although Samsung claims it is aiming to have commercialised 5G by then. Its focus on mobile infrastructure technologies could mark a new plan to challenge the dominance of companies such as Huawei in this area. “Samsung’s latest innovation is expected to invigorate research into 5G cellular communications across the world,” Samsung claimed. “The company believes it will trigger the creation of international alliances and the timely commercialization of related mobile broadband services.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/10053221/Samsung-claims-5G-breakthrough.html 5G: who needs it? Samsung's breakthrough may be years away, but 5G can’t come soon enough in town and country says Matt Warman In a pub last week, the best way I could connect to the internet was to turn off wifi, get out of the BT Openzone blackspot, and switch to a 4G mobile phone signal. For a business round the corner, the owners had found that 4G was faster than their broadband, too. We’re living in a soup of different connectivity options, where 3G can sometimes be available, 4G is in some places, and wifi, often installed as a way of getting online where previously there was no option, often acts as a barrier thanks to the tortuous process of logging in to the different options. And there are still large chunks of the country, often those where a web connection would make the most impact, where broadband of any kind is a distant dream. Today Samsung claims that 5G will be with us by 2020. It claims that from within 2km of a mast, 1GB download speeds would be perfectly possible. Thus far, this has all happened in a lab, but with 5G, however, there’s the theoretical promise of two things: where it is at its best, it would offer connectivity at speeds that are almost unprecedented anywhere in today’s UK. But it’s the promised ‘ubiquity’ that is more tempting. That could yet be more transformative, especially in rural areas. 5G networks could allow “a wide range of services such as 3D movies and games, real-time streaming of ultra high-definition content, and remote medical services,” Samsung claimed in a blog post. What the promise of 5G demonstrates is that we may yet manage to stop thinking about connectivity – the end of the idea of an awkward conversation mostly consisting of saying “I’m on the train” thanks to intermittent reception, There will be those who ask why we need such fast reception, just as there are those who wonder why we need fibre to every house for broadband: the answer is two-fold. First, because countries such as China are already doing it and it is vital Britain continues to compete. But secondly, because without such freedom from the constraints imposed by infrastructure, we leave ourselves little freedom to innovate. The services of the future will only happen on the intrastructure of the future – we must sort out the problems we have today, with 3G and 4G and wifi too – but 5G can’t come soon enough. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/broadband/10054274/5G-who-needs-it.html
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Source: Agnes Ingvarsdottir.

Obama’s Bad Pick: A Former Lobbyist at the F.C.C.
USA	Created: 14 May 2013
Memo to a President who said, in November, 2007, “I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists in Washington that their days of setting the agenda are over”: If you are going to name a former lobbyist for big cable and wireless companies as head of the federal agency that regulates the cable and wireless industries, you had better find a public-interest-group advocate to say something positive about him (or her) before you make the announcement. Job done. By Wednesday, when the White House confirmed that it was nominating Tom Wheeler, a veteran Washington insider who has headed not one powerful industry association but two, as the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, the nomination had already secured the support of Public Knowledge, an advocacy group that promotes open and unlimited access to the Internet. “Certainly we will have disagreements with the new Chairman (assuming Wheeler is confirmed), but we expect that Wheeler will actively work to promote competition and protect consumers,” Harold Feld, a senior vice-president at Public Knowledge, wrote in a blog post. That’s a relief—or is it? The closer you look at Wheeler’s selection, the more questionable it appears. After being poorly led for more than a decade—particularly under the disastrous tenure of Michael Powell, son of Colin—a strong argument can be made that the last thing the F.C.C. needs is an industry insider with close ties to many of the companies it oversees. In recent years, the cable and telecom industries have consolidated into a handful of quasi-monopolistic corporations, such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable, A.T. & T., and Verizon, which, all too often, are busy trying to gouge their customers while asking Washington for covert favors. Perhaps what is really wanted is another Elizabeth Warren—a vigorous consumer advocate and proponent of competition who’s willing to stand up to these corporate giants. Even with the best will in the world, it’s hard to see Wheeler as this type of crusading figure. From what I’ve read about him, Wheeler appears to be a knowledgeable and intelligent fellow with some independent views that he expresses on his blog. To some extent, though, you are your résumé. Between 1979 and 1984, Wheeler was chief executive of the National Cable Television Association (a job now held by, once again, Michael Powell). From 1992 until 2004, he headed up the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, which represents cell-phone operators. Since 2005, he’s been a managing director at Core Capital Partners, a Washington-based venture-capital firm that invests in small technology companies. To be sure, it’s been some years now since Wheeler was paid to influence Administration officials and Congressmen on behalf of big corporations. But in view of his long tenure in the lobbying industry, it’s hardly surprising that doubts have been raised about his independence. “All of the senators in the Commerce Committee know Tom as a lobbyist who funnels funds to them, not as a stand-up guy from a regulatory agency who is able to take heat,” another veteran Washington telecommunications insider told Reuters. While Public Knowledge has come out in favor of Wheeler’s nomination, other public-interest activists have expressed serious reservations about it. One of them is Phillip Dampier, the founder of Stop the Cap!, a consumer group that campaigns for better broadband service and unlimited usage. In a long and detailed blog post, Dampier pointed out that, in 2011, Wheeler appeared to express support for A.T. & T.’s proposed merger with T-Mobile, one of its few viable competitors, which the Justice Department blocked on monopoly grounds. Dampier wrote: What is almost completely absent in most of Wheeler’s writings is the perspective of, or concern for ordinary consumers. What would Mr. and Mrs. Joe Average think about yet another consolidating merger between AT&T and one of its smaller competitors? What impact would another cable merger have on the bills paid by ordinary people in Colorado, Nebraska, or Pennsylvania?… It is a safe bet most of the industry will welcome and celebrate Wheeler’s appointment. Many know him personally. Many others will feel safe that he is a reachable industry insider already familiar with the issues that concern them. This is what makes the D.C. revolving door so insidious. When you move from the regulated to the regulator (and back again), the only real outsiders are average consumers. Wheeler’s defenders, such as Harold Feld, say he saw the proposed merger between A.T. & T. and T-Mobile as an opportunity for the government to impose some meaningful oversight on wireless operators, which the 1996 Telecommunications Act explicitly excluded from rate regulations and other public-interest rules that apply to landline providers. Wheeler’s original post, from April 1, 2011, backs this up, but it also appears to assume that the merger would be nodded through, which would have been a travesty. And Dampier was right about the cable and telecom giants welcoming Wheeler’s nomination. As detailed in a story at Ars Technica, they could hardly contain their delight. A.T. & T., the biggest wireless carrier, called it “an inspired pick to lead the F.C.C.” Comcast, the biggest cable provider, said, “We applaud President Obama’s nomination and we look forward to working with the Commission under Tom’s leadership.” When President Obama announced Wheeler’s nomination, he said, “If anybody is wondering about Tom’s qualifications, Tom is the only member of both the cable television and the wireless industry hall of fame. So he’s like the Jim Brown of telecom, or the Bo Jackson of telecom.” That’s a bit absurd. Last I checked, Brown holds the N.F.L. records for rushing yards, rushing touchdowns, and total touchdowns. Jackson won the Heisman Trophy and tied the record for consecutive home runs. Wheeler wasn’t out there on the playing field as a cable or telecom executive: he reached the hall of fame by exerting influence in Washington. A more fitting sports metaphor would be to compare him to one of the lawyers who helped finagle a lucrative anti-trust exemption for professional football and baseball. In addition to being a former lobbyist, Wheeler has been a big campaign contributor to President Obama, giving $38,500 of his own money between 2008 and 2011, and also bundling together contributions from friends and associates. In the 2008 campaign, he raised between two hundred thousand and five hundred thousand dollars in this way for Obama, according to OpenSecrets.org, and he then led the Obama transition team focussed on science, technology, and the arts. During last year’s campaign, he raised more than five hundred thousand dollars for Team Obama. Rewarding campaign contributors is par for the course in Washington, of course. Usually, though, the prizes are ambassadorships or appointments to obscure boards rather than the chairmanship of a big federal regulatory agency. That’s another thing that makes Wheeler’s appointment look like just the sort of Washington inside job that Obama used to decry as a candidate. And it’s not as if there weren’t other candidates available. If the President had wanted to appoint somebody with regulation and Capitol Hill experience, he could have pushed for Jessica Rosenworcel, one of the five commissioners of the F.C.C., who had garnered the support of thirty-seven Democratic senators, including her former boss Jay Rockefeller. If Obama had wanted somebody with economic expertise, which has often appeared lacking at the F.C.C., he could have picked Jason Furman, the deputy director of the National Economic Council, whose name was frequently mentioned as a candidate. And if he had wanted a Warren-style firebrand, he could gone with Susan Crawford, a tech-policy expert and professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, who recently published a book titled “Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Guilded Age.” Instead of selecting one of these names—and there were other plausible candidates, too—Obama went with Wheeler. Perhaps the best that can be said about his nomination is that, assuming he’s confirmed, he’ll have an incentive to demonstrate that he isn’t a patsy for the companies he used to lobby for. In the coming months and years, the F.C.C. will juggle a host of significant issues, including the establishment of new rules for media cross-ownership, a wireless spectrum auction, and the resolution of a legal challenge to its authority to enforce rules compelling Internet-service providers to treat all data on the network equally. In all of these areas, the issues are complex, and they tend to go over the heads of ordinary Americans. Big corporations, with their lawyers and their lobbying budgets, can exploit this complexity to further their own interests at the expense of competitors and the public. That’s why it’s critical to have somebody heading the F.C.C. who gets up every day determined to protect the public interest. Is Wheeler up to the job? A lot of people will be watching. Related news: May 2013, USA: Help stop nomination of Thomas Wheeler to Chair FCC
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Source: The New Yorker, John Cassidy, 02 May 2013

Help stop nomination of Thomas Wheeler to Chair FCC
USA	Created: 14 May 2013
Dear Supporters - Thank you for signing our petition to Hold hearings to fire FCC and hire EPA to set RF radiation safety limits. Thomas E. Wheeler, a former lobbyist for CTIA who opposed meaningful RF safety limits in the 1996 Telecommunications Act, has been nominated to be Chairman of the FCC. Please help us to educate the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation about the serious conflicts of interest that Mr. Wheeler has that mean he is unfit to be Chairman of the FCC. Below you will find a sample letter, please personalize it by inserting a statement about your own experience between paragraph 4 and 5 or delete reminder placeholder, and add your name and address at the top and your name at the bottom. A brief first-hand experience illustrating the need for biologically-based RF safety limits and maintaining the landline phone system would add power to your letter. Please send your letter AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Mr. Wheeler's confirmation hearings begin soon. Below is a list of email addresses to send your letter to. Please copy and paste it into the TO line of your email. If you have not already done so, please promote the petition on twitter, facebook, websites, and in newsletters, links below. Thank you for your continued support, The EMRadiation Policy Institute Here's the petition link: http://www.change.org/petitions/chairman-rockefeller-senate-committee-on-commerce-science-transportation-hold-hearings-to-fire-fcc-and-hire-epa-to-set-rf-radiation-safety-limits-4 On Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/pages/EMR-Policy-Institute/188070864579167 On Twitter at: https://twitter.com/@emrpolicy Sample Letter: ***Your name and address*** Dear Chairman Rockefeller and Commerce Committee Members: I urge you to reject the nomination of Thomas E. Wheeler for Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In his position as President of the Cellular Telephone and Internet Association (CTIA) from 1992-2004, Mr. Wheeler was the chief lobbyist for the wireless telecommunications industry. Presently he sits on the board of various telecommunications companies. His glaring inherent conflict of interest will lead to the laxer RF limits the industry desires, resulting in even greater threat to the public health, and the loss of the landline phone system at a time when governments around the world are cautioning citizens to use wired phone and internet systems preferentially to wireless due to the health hazards. The FCC has already exhibited industry bias detrimental to the public health by not enforcing its existing inadequate thermally-based RF safety limits. The FCC has no established procedure for filing violations complaints, responding to complaints received in spite of the lack of procedure, for verifying compliance, or meaningful penalties for violations. Please see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oICZOtMwPo for a short summary of the investigation conducted by The EMRadiation Policy Institute which includes findings of violations up to and in excess of 600%. Mr. Wheeler's past history suggests that enforcing RF radiation limits to protect public health would not be a priority. These violations are particularly dangerous because the current FCC RF safety limits are only thermally-based, not biologically-based. These RF limits are in need of serious revision. The biological effects people are experiencing can be serious and life-threatening. Please watch this short video about women who got breast cancer from their cellphones http://www.ktvu.com/videos/news/special-report-keeping-cell-phone-in-bra-may-lead/vhPF8/ this video about cardiac arrhythmia being caused by DECT cordless phones http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-mw_nCJWs4 and this video about RF health effects on public health http://www.heartmdinstitute.com/v1/wireless-safety/cordless-phone-use-can-affect-heart . You can also watch this short video about the radiation in our homes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAnrmJ3un1g ****Insert your personal statement here.*** The FCC has opened a docket to examine whether it should revise its RF limits, potentially to relax them as requested by industry. Even in the Notice of Inquiry (NOI), the FCC exhibits bias toward industry and away from protecting Americans. From the FCC's docket language: Given the complexity of the information on research regarding non-thermal biological effects, taking extra precautions in this area may fundamentally be qualitative and may not be well-served by the adoption of lower specific exposure limits without any known, underlying biological mechanism. Additionally, adoption of extra precautionary measures may have the unintended consequence of “opposition to progress and the refusal of innovation, ever greater bureaucracy,... [and] increased anxiety in the population.” This is a perfect example of why the EPA, a public health agency without statutory obligation to promote the very technology it is supposed to regulate, should be in charge of setting RF safety limits to protect the public health. Mr. Wheeler's appointment would greatly exacerbate the glaring conflict of interest inherent in having an agency promote and regulate a technology due to his many ties to industry and industry interests. Finally, Mr. Wheeler can be expected to move further toward dismantling the landline phone system at a time when governments around the world are urging use of wired phones and wired internet due to the evidence of harm caused by wireless. Please reject the nomination of Thomas E. Wheeler for Chairman of the FCC. Sincerely, ***
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Source: EMRadiation Policy Institute, via email, 14 May 2013

An alarming "hidden epidemic" caused by Environmental changes, f.inst rise in background non-ionising radiation
United Kingdom	Created: 14 May 2013
Modern life causing dementia earlier, study finds. Modern life is causing people to suffer dementia earlier than ever before, a study has found, with PCs, mobile phones, chemicals and electronic devices to blame. Researchers found a sharp rise in the deaths from dementia and other neurological disease in under-74s, and believe that the figures cannot be explained away by the fact we live longer. Instead the “epidemic” is down to the environmental and social changes in the modern world, the authors claim. Of the 10 biggest Western countries the US had the highest increase in all neurological deaths between 1979 and 2010. The UK hadthe fourth largest increase, according to World Health Organisation statistics, with men up 32 per cent and women up 48 per cent – representing a rise from 4,500 deaths to 6,500. Within the figures there is an alarming "hidden epidemic" of deaths in adults under 74, especially the UK, according to the study published in Public Health Journal Total neurological deaths in both men and women rose significantly in 16 of the countries covered by the research, which is in sharp contrast to the major reductions in deaths from all other causes. Women's neurological deaths rose faster in most countries. Professor Colin Pritchard, from Bournemouth University, said: "These statistics are about real people and families, and we need to recognise that there is an 'epidemic' that clearly is influenced by environmental and societal changes.” That people suffer more brain diseases, and from younger ages, is illustrated the creation of two new charities - The Young Parkinson's Society and Young Dementia UK – which would have been inconceivable 30 years ago, he said. "Considering the changes over the last 30 years - the explosion in electronic devices, rises in background non-ionising radiation - PCs, microwaves, TVs, mobile phones; road and air transport up four-fold increasing background petro-chemical pollution; chemical additives to food, et cetera,” Professor Pritchard said. "There is no one factor rather the likely interaction between all these environmental triggers, reflecting changes in other conditions." By Hayley Dixon http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/10052486/Modern-life-causing-dementia-earlier-study-finds.html
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Source: Agnes Ingvarsdottir.

Brain Diseases Affecting More People and Starting Earlier Than Ever Before
USA	Created: 13 May 2013
Professor Colin Pritchard's latest research published in journal Public Health has found that the sharp rise of dementia and other neurological deaths in people under 74 cannot be put down to the fact that we are living longer. The rise is because a higher proportion of old people are being affected by such conditions -- and what is really alarming, it is starting earlier and affecting people under 55 years. Of the 10 biggest Western countries the USA had the worst increase in all neurological deaths, men up 66% and women 92% between 1979-2010. The UK was 4th highest, men up 32% and women 48%. In terms of numbers of deaths, in the UK, it was 4,500 and now 6,500, in the USA it was 14,500 now more than 28,500 deaths. Professor Pritchard of Bournemouth University says: "These statistics are about real people and families, and we need to recognise that there is an 'epidemic' that clearly is influenced by environmental and societal changes." Tessa Gutteridge, Director YoungDementia UK says that our society needs to learn that dementia is increasingly affecting people from an earlier age: "The lives of an increasing number of families struggling with working-age dementia are made so much more challenging by services which fail to keep pace with their needs and a society which believes dementia to be an illness of old age." Bournemouth University researchers, Professor Colin Pritchard and Dr Andrew Mayers, along with the University of Southampton's Professor David Baldwin show that there are rises in total neurological deaths, including the dementias, which are starting earlier, impacting upon patients, their families and health and social care services, exemplified by an 85% increase in UK Motor Neurone Disease deaths. The research highlights that there is an alarming 'hidden epidemic' of rises in neurological deaths between 1979-2010 of adults (under 74) in Western countries, especially the UK. Total neurological deaths in both men and women rose significantly in 16 of the countries covered by the research, which is in sharp contrast to the major reductions in deaths from all other causes. Over the period the UK has the third biggest neurological increase, up 32% in men and 48% in women, whilst women's neurological deaths rose faster than men's in most countries. Professor Pritchard said, "These rises in neurological deaths, with the earlier onset of the dementias, are devastating for families and pose a considerable public health problem. It is NOT that we have more old people but rather more old people have more brain disease than ever before, including Alzheimer's. For example there are two new British charities, The Young Parkinson's Society and Young Dementia UK, which are a grass-roots response to these rises. The need for such charities would have been inconceivable a little more than 30 years ago." When asked what he thought caused the increases he replied, "This has to be speculative but it cannot be genetic because the period is too short. Whilst there will be some influence of more elderly people, it does not account for the earlier onset; the differences between countries nor the fact that more women have been affected, as their lives have changed more than men's over the period, all indicates multiple environmental factors. Considering the changes over the last 30 years -- the explosion in electronic devices, rises in background non-ionising radiation- PC's, micro waves, TV's, mobile phones; road and air transport up four-fold increasing background petro-chemical pollution; chemical additives to food etc. There is no one factor rather the likely interaction between all these environmental triggers, reflecting changes in other conditions. For example, whilst cancer deaths are down substantially, cancer incidence continues to rise; levels of asthma are un-precedented; the fall in male sperm counts -- the rise of auto-immune diseases -- all point to life-style and environmental influences. These `statistics' are about real people and families, and we need to recognise that there is an `epidemic' that clearly is influenced by environmental and societal changes."
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Source: Science Daily, 10 May 2013

Cancer incidence in Korea has increased rapidly
South Korea	Created: 13 May 2013
Cancer Statistics in Korea: Incidence, Mortality, Survival and Prevalence in 2010. Abstract Purpose This article gives an overview of nationwide cancer statistics, including incidence, mortality, survival and prevalence, and their trends in Korea based on 2010 cancer incidence data. Materials and Methods Incidence data from 1993 to 2010 were obtained from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database, and vital status was followed until 31 December 2011. Mortality data from 1983 to 2010 were obtained from Statistics Korea. Crude and age-standardized rates for incidence, mortality, prevalence, and relative survival were calculated. Results In total, 202,053 cancer cases and 72,046 cancer deaths occurred during 2010, and 960,654 prevalent cancer cases were identified in Korea as of 1 January 2011. The incidence of all cancers combined showed an annual increase of 3.3% from 1999 to 2010. The incidences of liver and cervical cancers have decreased while those of thyroid, breast, prostate and colorectal cancers have increased. Notably, thyroid cancer, which is the most common cancer in Korea, increased by 24.2% per year rapidly in both sexes. The mortality of all cancers combined showed a decrease by 2.7% annually from 2002 to 2010. Five-year relative survival rates of patients who were diagnosed with cancer from 2006 to 2011 had improved by 22.9% compared with those from 1993 to 1995. Conclusion While the overall cancer incidence in Korea has increased rapidly, age-standardized cancer mortality rates have declined since 2002 and survival has improved.
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Source: Cancer Research & Treatment, Young-Joo Won, PhD et al, 31 Mar 2013

Cell Phones Linked to Acoustic Tumors for the Fourth Time
United Kingdom	Created: 13 May 2013
If you still doubt that cell phone tumor studies are free of political agendas, take a look at a new paper from the U.K. This is the fourth epidemiological study to show arisk of developing an acoustic neuroma, a tumor of the auditory nerve, following long-term use of a cell phone. Yet, the authors neglect to highlight this keyfinding in the conclusion section of their abstract, focusing instead on the absence of an increase in brain cancer. The research team, which includes Valerie Beral of Oxford University and Joachim Schüz of IARC, also touts the study as prospective. We disagree. It is really no better than previous retrospective studies. The controversy continues, with no end in sight. Read our latest post at: http://microwavenews.com/uk-study-points-acoustic-neuroma Best, Louis Slesin
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Source: Microwave News, Louis Slesin, 10 May 2013

Secrets of 27m mobile phones offered to police
United Kingdom	Created: 13 May 2013
THE data of 27m mobile phone users has been offered for sale to the Metropolitan police, private companies and other bodies, enabling them to track users’ movements. Ipsos Mori, one of Britain’s biggest research firms, has been caught offering text and call records for sale. The company has claimed in meetings that every movement by users can be tracked to within 100 metres. This weekend the Met, which has been in talks with Ipsos Mori about paying for some of the controversial data, shelved any deal after being contacted by The Sunday Times. Documents to promote the data reveal that it includes “gender, age, postcode, websites visited, time of day text is sent [and] location of customer when call is made”. They state that people’s mobile phone use and location can be tracked in real time with records of movements, calls and texts also available for the previous six months. Richard Kerbaj and Jon Ungoed-Thomas Published: 12 May 2013
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Source: Agnes Ingvarsdottir.

Pupils given free iPad minis
United Kingdom	Created: 12 May 2013
A school is giving a tablet computer worth £269 to all of its 1,200 pupils. Cherry Ridgeway, headteacher at Pleckgate High School in Blackburn, said it was hoped that the iPad mini scheme would improve results at the comprehensive by "bridging the gap between the classroom and home study". Parents will be asked to make a £30 contribution to insure their child's iPad and for a case, which usually retails at £40, to keep it protected. The rest of the money is coming from the school's reserves and this year's budget. Extra funding may also come from grants. When children leave the school, if the iPad is more than two years old and the pupil has good behaviour and attendance, they will be allowed to make a contribution and keep the tablet. Mrs Ridgeway said: "Rest assured, this is not a gimmick. "We are giving our pupils access to modern technologies that will allow them to learn independently and prepare them for life in the modern world.
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Source: Agnes Ingvarsdottir.

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