Mobile Phones and Health Hazards
Abstract
Background: Scientists are beginning to uncover worrying evidence that microwave radiation could cause physiological damage. Dr. Narendra Singh, had discovered that low-level microwave radiation could split the DNA molecules in the brains of live rats; such splitting is associated with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and cancer.
Methodology: Analysis of evidences linking brain damage and electromagnetic waves from mobile phones.
Result: The brain is made up of watery tissue good at absorbing microwave radiation. Scientists believe there may be two main effects: 1. Heating tissue 2. Altering cell membranes. Microwaves can make membranes more permeable to potassium and calcium ions, which are important to cell functions. Cellular phone cause electromagnetic interference on implantable cardiac defibrillators. Digital cellular phone generate strong amplitude modulated fields with pulse repetition rate near the physiological range sensed by the ICD as an arrhythmia, High Voltage firing or inhibition of pacing output of the ICDS occurred when the phone was within 2.8 –5.8 cm of the ICD pulse generator
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