RESEARCH ON DANGERS OF EXTREMELY LOW RADIATION In response to a growing body of scientific evidence, the existence of health and biological effects associated with exposures to ELECTROMAGNETIC FILEDS is becoming more widely known and accepted. More and more scientists now believe that the existence of significant non-thermal effects induced by low-level non-ionizing EMF (extremely low frequencies ELF) are a reality. For example, on Wednesday, July 24, 1998, a 28 member panel convened by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) decided that extremely low frequency (ELF) electromagnetic fields should be regarded as possible carcinogens. The final vote of the panel was 19 to 9 in favor of categorizing ELF EMFs, such as those from power lines and electrical appliances, as possible carcinogens. The vote followed one year of study including three major, multi-day symposia and a final 10 day intensive meeting of scientists to review and debate the scientific and medical literature. In October 1998 at the University of Vienna Workshop on Possible Biological and Health Effects of Radio Frequency (RF/MW) Electromagnetic Fields, the following resolution was made by the participating scientists (the "Vienna Resolution"): "The participants agreed that biological effects from low-intensity exposures are scientifically established. However, the current state of scientific consensus is inadequate to derive reliable exposure standards. The existing evidence demands an increase in the research efforts on possible health impact and on adequate exposure and dose assessment." In conclusion, scientists working in the field of "bioelectromagnetics" are now convinced that man-made EMFs disturb biological processes (induce biological effects). Some of the biological effects seen in the laboratories are similar to biochemical mechanisms believed to be responsible for neurological effects like short term memory loss, whereas others are believed to be involved in the development of serious disorders like cancer, Alzheimers and Parkinsons. There is no definitive conclusion whether this may lead to these serious diseases, and research will not be able to provide unequivocal answers until the causes of these diseases have been identified completely. Should we know one day what role low-level non-ionizing EMFs play in cancer, it will only be because we will also know what causes cancer. Until such time, science will have no choice but to continue advancing, studying and rejecting new hypotheses until finally, from many individual findings, a conclusive overall picture of cancer and other diseases emerges. However, the conclusion mentioned above, formulated by the 28 person scientific work group under NIEHS stating that EMFs should be regarded as possible carcinogens, is a warning; already, a substantial body of scientific evidence do point to a relation between EMFs and cancer. Below is shown a summary of scientific findings on EMF-induced biological effects related to the cascade of events believed to be significant in the development of cancer: Dr. Neil Cherry of Lincoln University, New Zealand, in a recent report concluded: "Scientific studies at the cellular level, whole animal level and involving human populations, show compelling and comprehensive evidence that RF/MW exposure down to very low levels, levels which are a minute fraction of present "safety standards", result in altered brain function, sleep disruption, depression, chronic fatigue, headache, impaired memory and learning, adverse reproductive outcomes including miscarriage, still birth, cot death, prematurely and birth deformities. Many other adverse health effects have been found, predominantly cancer of many organs, especially brain cancer, leukemia, breast cancer and testicular cancer. Studies have also found that RF/MW exposed parents have more children with CNS cancers and other health defects. These effects are consistent with genetic damage caused by RF/MW. Many scientific studies have found chromosome aberrations and DNA damage with RF/MW exposure, the first being published in 1959. Two primary biological mechanisms are linked to these effects, calcium ion efflux and melatonin reduction. With melatonin reduction, there is a rise in serotonin which is associated with awakeness, alertness, anxiety, anger, rage and violence depending on the serotonin level, the person and the circumstances." Hence, there is a strong evidence that ELF and RF/MW is associated with accelerated aging (enhanced cell death and cancer) and moods, depression, suicide, anger, rage and violence, primarily through alteration of cellular calcium ions and the melatonin/serotonin balance." Cell phones emit both microwave radiation (MW) from the antenna and extremely low frequency (ELF) fields from the body of the phone. Both types of emissions have been consistently and repetitively shown to induce significant biological effects.