[Darksky]articles on Childhood Leukaemia (fwd)

[Jan Hollan <jhollan@amper....muni.cz>]

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:04:05 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jan Hollan <jhollan@amper....muni.cz>
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Subject: articles on Childhood Leukaemia

Sam Milham remembered his revealing paper (published together with
E. M. Ossiander) at the conference:

 Historical Evidence that Residential Electrification caused the
 emergence of the childhood leukemia peak.
  http://www.feb.se/EMFguru/Research/Childhood.pdf
 -- abstract and hypertext references are at
  http://www.powerlinefacts.com/Historical_evidence_abstract.htm

He suspects magnetic fields from the wires. However, it appears that that
the most toxic part of electromagnetic radiation longwave-ward from UV
might be ...light.

A couple of articles from the Children Leukaemia conference below might
give a hint about that. Together with Russel Reiter I suspect that it was
the sudden rise of the amount of light at night that brought the ``peak''
(more accurately, steep rise of incidence, which rises more slowly ever
since). The amounts of electricity used at fist installations were perhaps
too small to cause such an effect directly. But light, through a
pronounced melatonin production suppression, could do that rather easily.

wishing you healthy ( => dark, of course) night,
 jenik

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Medical News and Health News from Medical News Today:

 Rising childhood leukaemia incidence prompts conference
  http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=12981

 New evidence of radiation risk in childhood leukaemia
  http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=12998

 Pesticide exposure in utero linked to childhood leukaemia
  http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13020

 Increase in childhood leukaemia may be part due to increased light at
night
  http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13044

 New research suggests link between maternal diet and childhood leukemia
risk
  http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13087

 Early diet may play key role in protecting against childhood leukaemia
  http://medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=13117

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Night Light Suspected in Rise in Child Leukemia
 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/
  "By Patricia Reaney

   LONDON (Reuters) - A growing body of evidence linking increased night
   light to certain types of cancer has led researchers to suspect it
   could be connected to the steady increase in cases of childhood
   leukemia.

   ..."

Increase in childhood leukaemia may be part due to increased light at night
 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/cwl-iic090604.php

New evidence of radiation risk in childhood leukaemia
 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-09/cwl-neo090504.php

Sleeping with lights on linked to child leukaemia
   By Rebecca Smith, Evening Standard Health Reporter
 http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=13038428

Sleeping with the light on 'raises child leukaemia'
 http://promotions.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2004/09/10/nleuk09.xml&sSheet=/global/2004/09/10/home.html

Oranges, bananas and turmeric prevent leukaemia | New Scientist
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996384

Reuters: Childhood Leukemia Incidence Rising, According to British Experts
 http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_news_detail.adp?item_id=310368