Press Advisory
- Audio Press Conference
9 am EDT, June 1, 2016
Title: Head of Research Design for the $25m US
Government Study on Cellphones Provides Additional Analyses and Discusses
Implications With Scientists from the Israeli Institute of Advanced Studies at
Hebrew University
World’s
largest cell phone radiation animal study found increased brain and heart
tumors in exposed rats.
“This is the best
designed animal study every conducted on this topic.”
- Chris Portier
former Head of the US National Toxicology Program.
WHEN: June 1 at 9 am EST; 4 pm IDT
WHAT: US
Toxicologist who designed the US Government Rodent Study, and Experts in
Non-Ionizing Radiation will be discussing the just-released US Government's
National Toxicology Program Study (see recent coverage by the WSJ, Consumer
Reports, PBS, Mother Jones linked below).
● What were the research findings?
● Why is this research so important?
● Are these findings relevant to
understanding human risks from cell phones?
● How strong are these results?
● What should health authorities do with
this information?
WHO: Ronald L Melnick PhD, Martha Herbert Ph.D., M.D., Michal Linial PhD,
Devra Davis PhD MPH, and Meg Sears PhD
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Wed, Jun
1, 2016 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT; 4:00 pm - 5:00 PM IDT (Israel)
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Panel Biographies
Ronald L Melnick, PhD. lead the design of the NTP/NIEHS Rodent Study and will discuss how the study was carefully developed to
test for a carcinogenic effect from cell phone radiation. Melnick was a
Senior Toxicologist and Director of Special Programs in the Environmental
Toxicology Program at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
(NIEHS) National Institutes of Health, USA and is now retired.
Martha
Herbert Ph.D., M.D. iis an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard
Medical School, a Pediatric Neurologist and Neuroscientist at the Massachusetts
General Hospital in Boston, and an affiliate of the Harvard-MIT-MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, where she is director of the TRANSCEND Research Program (Treatment Research and Neuroscience
Evaluation of Neurodevelopmental Disorders).
Devra Davis, PhD
MPH, is President of the Environmental Health
Trust, a non-profit scientific and policy think tank focusing on cell phone
radiation. She was the founding director of the Board on Environmental Studies
and Toxicology of the U.S. National Research Council and Founding Director,
Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
and a former Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Health in the
Department of Health and Human Services and a member of the NTP Board of
Scientific Counselors from 1983 to 1986.
Margaret (Meg) Sears, PhD chairs and is lead scientist for Prevent
Cancer Now. Dr. Sears was trained in
Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto,
Canada. She worked in energy research, then returned to academia to complete
doctoral research in biochemical engineering at McGill University. With skills
in scientific analysis and writing, Dr. Sears gained associations with Ottawa
research institutes, has led and published federally-funded research in environmental
health, provided expert advice, and lectured at several Canadian universities
on topics including epidemiology and toxicology.
MORE INFORMATION ON THE NTP STUDY
The Report of Partial findings from the National Toxicology Program
Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague
Dawley® SD rats (Whole Body Exposure) http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/26/055699
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2016/may27/index.cfm
http://microwavenews.com/news-center/ntp-cancer-results
RECENT COVERAGE ON THIS STUDY:
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top researchers. EHT also educates individuals, health professionals and communities about
policy changes needed to reduce those risks. Currently, EHT is addressing
health concerns about cell phones and wireless and recommends reducing exposure
to reduce risk. The Environmental Health Trust maintains a regularly updated database of worldwide
precautionary policies with over a dozen countries recommending reducing wireless exposure
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