Re:EMF from Wireless

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Is anyone concerned about the Electromagnetic Radiation (EMF) emitted from all of the wireless computers and devices? Check this out. Was wondering what your thoughts are.

http://bioinitiative.org/report/docs/report.pdf

Jill Baron

Jill R. Baron, MD, PCPrimary Care and Holistic Medicine44 East 32nd Street, 11th floorNew York, New York 10016www.drjillbaron.comThe year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there.

[Guest guest]

At this stage, my understanding is that it is still too

early to associate RF with health risks at least in the strengths that would be

present in a practice to support wireless networking. I am a contributing

author to a book being released by HIMSS discussing wireless deployments in the

small medical practice and clinic. One of the areas not covered was this

particular concern. I was involved in a consulting study for a large pharmaceutical

company arising out of the concern that adding RFID tags to biomedical products

and the scanning of these tags from origin to point of delivery might result in

a scientifically significant increase in RF exposure and thus impact shelf life.

It looks like the risk of exposure during air transport is actually greater.

The facts are, however, that communities are implementing

citywide public WiFi and WiMAX networks in addition to the growing presence of

cellular, Bluetooth and other forms of wireless communications.

Businesses now routinely have wireless LANS. Hospitals have Wireless

LANs, wireless telemetry, pager and wireless voice over IP (Vocera) networks

and are soon to add Personal Area Networks.

You may find the overview at this link to be of

interest. http://www.dvhimss.org/pdf/Sloane-DVHIMSS-20April2006-SafetyFirst-WirelessMedDevices-final.pdf

Ray Dudley

President

Right Angles Consulting Associates