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Title:   ARPANSA - Mobile telephones and health effects
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   There is no clear evidence in the existing scientific literature that the use of mobile telephones poses a long-term public health hazard.
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   ARPANSA - Mobile telephones scientific background
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   There is no clear evidence in the existing scientific literature that the use of mobile telephones poses a long-term public health hazard.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   ARPANSA - Radiation protection standard for maximum exposure levels to radiofrequency fields - 3 kHz to 300 GHz (2002)
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   This standard specifies limits of human exposure to radiofrequecy fields in the range 3kHz to 300GHz to prevent adverse effects. It specifies basic restrictions for occupational exposure, general public exposure, and equipment and usage parameters. Also contains links to supporting documents.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   ARPANSA - Prediction methodologies for radiated electromagnetic energy (EME) exposure levels from mobile phone base station antennas
Publisher:   Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency (ARPANSA)
Description:   Radiated fields from cellular telephone base stations must comply with safety limits imposed by the Australian Communications Authority. In many cases this includes the preparation of an ARPANSA Environmental EME Report.
Date:   Jun 2011
Title:   Microwave therapy for cervical ectropion
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   In western countries, cervical ectropion or erosion caused by the movement of columnar epithelium onto the vaginal portion of the cervix is considered a normal physiological process not requiring intervention. In China, however, cervical ectropion is co...
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Microwave thermotherapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), the enlargement of the prostate gland, is a common condition in older men that may lead to troublesome urinary symptoms, including increased frequency, urge and night time urination, as well as difficulty emptying the...
Date:   Aug 2007
Title:   Review of the use of microwave therapy for the treatment of patients with cancer
Publisher:   National Health and Medical Research Council
Description:   The NHMRC's final report on the therapeutic effectiveness of microwave (UHF radiowave) cancer therapy as practised by Dr John Holt in Western Australia.
Date:   Sep 2005

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