Swiss Workshop Focused on Quality in EMF Research

Janet Lathrop, a journalist specializing in RF research, gives a broad and interesting review of the Monte Verità workshop on EMF Health Risk Research organized by the IT'IS Foundation November 2005.

Mobile Phone Affects Cerebral Blood Flow in Humans

Cellular Phones, Cordless Phones, and the Risks of Glioma and Meningioma (Interphone Study Group, Germany)

Childhood Leukemia and Magnetic Fields in Japan: A Case-control Study of Childhood Leukemia and Residential Power-frequency Magnetic Fields in Japan

Effects of 900 MHz GSM Wireless Communication Signals on DMBA-Induced Mammary Tumors in Rats

Da Yu, Yonghao Shen, Niels Kuster, Yiti Fu, and Huai Chiang, in Radiation Research, Volume 165, Number 2, pp. 174–180, February 2006

EMF Health Risk Research at Monte Verità, Switzerland

The conference summary as well as the presentations of the Monte Verità conference on EMF health risk research are now available on the Monte Verità website (under "results").

Nonuniform Grids, Nonorthogonal Grids, Unstructured Grids, and Subgrids, and Antennas

Nicolas Chavannes and others, in “Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method, Third Edition,” Allen Taflove and Susan C. Hagness, Artech House, Inc., Boston, 2005

EMF Health Risk Research: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future

A workshop to bring together the most experienced and independent researchers worldwide to develop a vision towards improving the quality of future research on EMF and health.

Response, Thermal Regulatory Threshold and Thermal Breakdown Threshold of Restrained RF-Exposed Mice at 905 MHz

Sven Ebert, Sang-Jin Eom, Jürgen Schuderer, U. Apostel, Thomas Tillmann, Clemens Dasenbrock and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine & Biology, Volume 50, Number 21, pp. 5203–5215, October 2005

New Study on aging effects of the absorption of electromagnetic radiation in the head

Effects of 1-Week and 6-Week Exposure to GSM/DCS Radiofrequency Radiation on Micronucleus Formation in B6C3F1 Mice

Bernd-D. Görlitz, Meike Müller, Sven Ebert, Hartmut Hecker, Niels Kuster, and Clemens Dasenbrock, in Radiation Research, Volume 164, Number 4 pt 1, pp. 431–439, October 2005

Mobile Phone Use and Risk of Acoustic Neuroma: Results of the Interphone Case-control Study in Five North European Countries

Differences in RF Energy Absorption in the Heads of Adults and Children

Andreas Christ and Niels Kuster, in Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 26, Issue S7, pp. S31–S44, December 2005

IT'IS Site Selected for Advertisement Shooting

Our entrance door was selected by the biggest retailer in Switzerland as a background for shooting their latest advertisement. Curiously, they are promoting mobile phones!

IT’IS new Associate Member of ITU-R Study Group 1 – Spectrum Management

Electromagnetic Fields Affect Transcript Levels of Apoptosis-Related Genes in Embryonic Stem Cell-derived Neural Progenitor Cells

Teodora Nikolova, Jaroslaw Czyz, Alexandra Rolletschek, Przemyslaw Blyszczuk, Jörg Fuchs, Gabriele Jovtchev, Jürgen Schuderer, Niels Kuster, and Anna M. Wobus, in The FASEB Journal, Volume 19, Number 12, pp. 1686–1688, October 2005

Dosimetric Comparison of the Specific Anthropomorphic Mannequin (SAM) to 14 Anatomical Head Models Using a Novel Definition for the Mobile Phone Positioning

Wolfgang Kainz, Andreas Christ, Tocher Kellom, Seth Seidman, Neviana Nikoloski, Brian Beard and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 50, Number 14, pp. 3423–3445, July 2005

New study to develop anatomical high resolution models of adults and children

Childhood Cancer in Relation to Distance From High Voltage Power Lines in England and Wales: a Case-control Study

Resonance Effects Indicate a Radical-Pair Mechanism for Avian Magnetic Compass

Whole-Body Exposure to 2.45 GHz Electromagnetic Fields Does Not Alter 12-arm Radial-Maze With Reduced Access to Spatial Cues in Rats

Brigitte Cosquer, Niels Kuster and Jean-Christophe Cassel, Behavioural Brain Research, Volume 161, Issue 2, pp. 331–334, June 2005

Blood–Brain Barrier and Electromagnetic Fields: Effects of Scopolamine Methylbromide on Working Memory After Whole-body Exposure to 2.45 GHz Microwaves in Rats

Brigitte Cosquer, Anne Pereira de Vasconcelos, Jürg Fröhlich and Jean-Christophe Cassel, Behavioural Brain Research, Volume 161, Issue 2, pp. 229–237, June 2005

Experimental Phase of the TNO Study Completed

Use of Cellular Telephones and Brain Tumour Risk in Urban and Rural Areas

IT'IS Foundation at the ETH 150 Years Exhibition, Welcome Tomorrow

The IT'IS Foundation presented its research achievements as part of the 150 year anniversary exhibit of the ETH Zurich at the Zurich main train station.

IT'IS Annual Report 2004

Health Support Systems informational brochure

Cellular Telephones and Risk for Brain Tumors

Reevaluation and Improved Design of the TEM Cell In Vitro Exposure Unit for Replication Studies

Neviana Nikoloski, Jürg Fröhlich, Theodoros Samaras, Jürgen Schuderer and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics Vol. 26, Issue 3, pp. 215–224, April 2005

Exposure to Pulse-Modulated Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Affects Regional Cerebral Blood Flow

R. Huber, V. Treyer, J. Schuderer, T. Berthold, A. Buck, N. Kuster, H. P. Landolt and P. Achermann, European Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 1000–1006, February 2005