Health Hazards of Wireless Technologies: What do we know now?
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Health Hazards of Wireless Technologies: What do we know now?
Related webinars
Moskowitz, J. 2023. Radiofrequency Radiation and Your Health: Is 5G Harmful? (Federal Mobility Group webinar).
Moskowitz, J. 2021. Health Effects of Cellphone & Cell Tower Radiation: Implications for 5G. (Center for Occupational & Environmental Health webinar).
Related audio recordings
Wireless Technology and Public Health: Health and Environmental Hazards in a Wireless World (CHE audio recording, 2016)
EMF and Reproductive Health Risks (CHE audio recording, 2012).
The Information Age and EMF/RF Illness (CHE audio recording, 2010).
Resources
CDC. 2024. Facts About Cell Phones and Your Health.
Choi YJ et al. 2018. Cellular Phone Use and Risk of Tumors: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(21), 8079.
Falcioni L et al. 2018. Sprague-Dawley rats exposed from prenatal life until natural death to mobile phone radiofrequency field representative of a 1.8 GHz GSM base station environmental emission. Environmental Research 165, 496-503
Moskowitz M. Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website
National Toxicology Program. 2024. Fact Sheet: Cellphone Radio Frequency Radiation Studies.
National Toxicology Program. Cell Phone Radio Frequency Radiation. (Research overview web page.)
Download our Webinar Highlights fact sheet for key findings and quotes from this webinar.
Wireless technologies, including cell phones, wireless internet, and Bluetooth devices, have become ubiquitous in our lives. Most adults in the US own a cell phone, and cell phone use is widespread among children and adolescents. New cell antenna sites are being deployed widely. Wireless technologies and equipment designs also change rapidly.
The preponderance of scientific evidence shows adverse biological and health effects from the radiofrequency (RF) radiation, or electromagnetic fields (EMFs), used and generated by these devices. A number of studies have considered the mechanisms of biological harm from RF radiation, and federal studies have documented increased incidence of certain tumors in laboratory animals associated with RF exposure. Epidemiological studies have found increased risk of certain tumors associated with long-term use of wireless phones.
In this webinar, Dr. Joel Moskowitz provided a brief overview of selected recent studies on health hazards of wireless technologies. He discussed a meta-analysis of case-control studies of cell phone use and tumor risk, as well as the state of the evidence on children’s brain cancers, thyroid cancers, and other health hazards. This webinar was designed to provide a brief introduction to a subset of the recent scientific evidence, with a focus on cancer and on children’s health.
Featured Speaker
Joel M. Moskowitz, PhD is the Director of the Center for Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Dr. Moskowitz has conducted research on disease prevention programs and policies for more than 40 years, most recently focusing on adverse health effects of cell phone and wireless radiation. In 2009 he served as the senior author on a hallmark paper reviewing research on mobile phone use and increased brain tumor risk published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. He has disseminated research related to wireless technology, public health, and policy since 2009. He is a member of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields (ICBE-EMF) and an advisor to the International EMF Scientist Appeal signed by more than 250 scientists who published peer-reviewed research on EMF and biology or health. His Electromagnetic Radiation Safety website is a valuable resource for scientists, journalists, and the public.
