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Subjective symptoms and mobile phones

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ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Volume 10, Issue 2

Pages 51 - 53

https://doi.org/10.1145/1137975.1137982

Published: 01 April 2006 Publication History

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Several months ago, the summary from a workshop on Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity was made available on the World Health Organizations EMF Project website [12]. In addition to the World Health Organization, the meeting had the cosponsored of the European Commission Coordinated Action EMF-NET, the European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST 281), and the Ministry of Health of the Czech Republic. The report concluded that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is characterized by a variety of nonspecific symptoms that differ from individual to individual. The symptoms are certainly real and can vary widely in their severity. For some individuals the symptoms can change their lifestyle. Moreover, it had suggested that there also are some indications that these symptoms may be due to preexisting psychiatric conditions as well as stress reactions as a result of worrying about believed electromagnetic health effects, rather than the electromagnetic exposure itself.

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Subjective symptoms and mobile phones
1. Applied computing
  1. Computers in other domains
    1. Personal computers and PC applications
  2. Life and medical sciences
    1. Consumer health
    2. Health informatics
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy

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ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review Volume 10, Issue 2

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DOI:10.1145/1137975

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Behari JNirala J(2012)SAR measurement due to mobile phone exposure in a simulated biological mediaElectromagnetic Biology and Medicine10.3109/15368378.2012.70029431:3(195-203)Online publication date: 16-Aug-2012
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