United States: NIH probe of ‘Havana syndrome’ finds no sign of brain injuries

NIH probe of ‘Havana syndrome’ finds no sign of brain injuries  

By Joel Achenbach and Shane Harris, Washington Post, March 18, 2024

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The four-year study comes amid ongoing conjectures about ‘targeted attacks’ with pulsed-energy weapons

Repeated scans of patients suffering from the mysterious ailment commonly known as “Havana syndrome” found no significant evidence of brain injury, according to an ongoing investigation by the National Institutes of Health.

A man pushes a wheelbarrow near the U.S. Embassy in Havana, where government employees were working when they mysteriously became ill. (Yamil Lage/AFP/Getty Images)

Two studies, published Monday in JAMA, found few significant differences in a range of cognitive and physical tests among more than 80 patients who had been stationed in Cuba, Austria, China and other locations compared with a control group of people with similar job descriptions.

Wireless Radiation Health Effects Compilation Cell Towers and Cell Phones and Wi Fi

Excellent 20-minute video

Wireless Radiation Health Effects Compilation Cell Towers and Cell Phones and Wi Fi
Environmental Health Trust, 14 March 2024

Hundreds of scientists, doctors and public health experts recommend the public reduce exposure to wireless radiation to mitigate risk due to the growing scientific evidence of harm.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TMTexPb_0

Switzerland: Millimeter waves: uncertain need and risk

Physicians for the Environment are sounding the alarm about the desire of the Swiss government, operators and Comcom to introduce millimeter-wave 5G in Switzerland.

Millimeter waves: uncertain need and risk
by Pascal Sigg, infosperber.ch, March 8, 2024 - Translation DeepL 

The Federal Council and operators want higher cell phone frequencies soon. A doctors' organization is "very worried".

Will adaptive antennas soon be able to use higher frequencies in Switzerland? Antenna in the canton of Zurich © SRF Kassensturz

New business, better Internet coverage in the countryside and more money in the state coffers. These are the reasons why the Federal Council wants to allocate new high frequencies for mobile telephony in the 6 GHz, 26 GHz and 40 GHz bands - known as millimeter waves. These frequencies would enable the introduction of 5G technology in our country. At present, this technology only operates in Switzerland on a maximum of 3.5 GHz.

As with the allocation of the first 5G frequencies four years ago, the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) recently organized a public consultation procedure. This time, however, the only focus was on the needs of potential operators and users.

36 New Papers on Electromagnetic Fields and Biology or HealthElectromagnetic Radiation Safety, 4 March 2024

36 New Papers on Electromagnetic Fields and Biology or Health

https://www.saferemr.com/2024/03/, March 4, 2024

Dr. Joel Moscowitz, University of California Berkeley, has been circulating abstracts of newly-published scientific papers on radio frequency and other non-ionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) monthly since 2016. The complete collection of these papers contains more than 2,000 abstracts with links to the papers. Several hundred EMF scientists around the world receive these updates.

To download Volume 3 which contains abstracts of papers published in 2024 (including the new papers listed below) click on the following link (45 page pdf): https://bit.ly/EMFstudies03-2024

To download Volume 2 which contains abstracts of papers published from 2021 through 2023 click on the following link (867 page pdf): https://bit.ly/EMFStudies-2021-2023

To download Volume 1 which contains abstracts of papers published from 2016 through 2020 click on the following link (875 page pdf): https://bit.ly/EMFStudies-2016-2020


The abstracts for recently published papers appear below.

 

Recent Research on Wireless Radiation and Electromagnetic Fields

No budget in Switzerland to protect people’s health from dangerous phones?

No budget in Switzerland to protect people’s health from dangerous phones?

By : Phonegate Team • 27 Feb 2024

Between 2012 and today, the sale of radio frequencies (4G, 5G) alone has brought in almost CHF 1.4 billion for the Federal Council.

Despite the warnings raised in 2018 and again in 2019 by several members of Parliament (interpellations 19.3180 and 19.4496), and again in 2023 with motion 23.4244), the Swiss authorities remain silent. Several press articles, such as those in the “Beobachter” and the “Tagesanzeiger”, warned of the “Phonegate affair”, yet the Federal Council justified its inaction in protecting the health and safety of millions of cell phone users on the grounds of its “financial situation”:


“The Federal Council recognizes that there is indeed a gap in implementation, that there is no market surveillance for these products regarding their health impacts due to NIR. However, carrying out these tasks would require human and financial resources. Based on the cost/benefit analysis, and given the Confederation’s financial situation, the required resources could not be made available. The Federal Council therefore agrees to dispense with market surveillance for the time being, and therefore proposes to reject this motion.”