34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET (Bill Gorman) (02/27/91)
Index Number: 13678 Here is an article that might be of interest, particularly to those of us who make extensive use of computerized adaptive devices. W. K. (Bill) Gorman ----------------------------Original message---------------------------- |>From the Boston Globe, Sat. Feb 9, 1991 (page 21, under the obituaries): |Study links leukemia to power lines, TVs (Lee Siegel, Asociated Press) | |Los Angeles - Children may face twice the risk of getting leukemia if they live |near power lines, frequntly use hair dryers or watch black-and-white |television, says a study sponsored by electric utilities. The findings offer |"considerable support for a relationship between children's electrical |applicance use and leukemia risk," said a summary of the study by the |University of Southern California. | |The University of Sourthern California study of 464 Los Angeles County children |age 10 and younger is considered important because it was financed by the |Electric Power Research Institute, which had been skeptical of earlier studies |linking cancer to magnetic fields. The study found children who lived closest |to neighborhood power lines were up to 2 1/2 times more likely to suffer |leukemia. Frequent use of hair dryers and black-and-white televisions also |increased leukemia risk. | | That's the entire article -- does anyone have more information? | Martin Minow minow@bolt.enet.dec.com
era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold) (03/08/91)
Index Number: 13852 In article <17845@bunker.UUCP> 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET (Bill Gorman) writes: |Index Number: 13678 | |Here is an article that might be of interest, particularly to those of |us who make extensive use of computerized adaptive devices. | |W. K. (Bill) Gorman |----------------------------Original message---------------------------- ||>From the Boston Globe, Sat. Feb 9, 1991 (page 21, under the obituaries): ||Study links leukemia to power lines, TVs (Lee Siegel, Asociated Press) Paul Brodeur, who has popularized the possible link between EM fields and cancer, wrote a series of articles on this subject which appeared in _The New Yorker_ magazine within the past few years. It sounds like the USC/EPRI study is a repeat of an original study done by a woman researcher here in Denver, about 1978. Any public library should be able to get the New Yorker series of articles for you. -- era@ncar.ucar.edu