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Anxiety, Sleep, Sleep disturbances, Smartphones

Yang Song, Kristin Sznajder, Can Cui, Yilong Yang, Ying Li, Xiaoshi Yang, Anxiety and its relationship with sleep disturbance and problematic smartphone use among Chinese medical students during COVID-19 home confinement — A Structural Equation Model Analysis, Journal of Affective Disorders, 2021, ISSN 0165-0327, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.09.095. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032721010545) Highlights •Anxiety was associated with problematic smartphone use and […]

Oct

Artificial Light at Night and Cancer: Global Study

ALAN, Breast, Cancer, Colon, Light, Rectum

Al-Naggar RA, Anil Sh. Artificial Light at Night and Cancer: Global Study. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2016;17(10):4661-4664. Published 2016 Oct 1. doi:10.22034/apjcp.2016.17.10.4661 Abstract Background: Artificial light at night (ALAN) has been linked to increased risk of cancers in body sites like the breast and colorectum. However exposure of ALAN as an environmental risk factor and […]

Oct

BioEM2021 Workshop on EHS – slides of the presentations

BioEM2021, EHS

The slides are available at https://betweenrockandhardplace.wordpress.com/2021/10/02/bioem2021-workshop-on-ehs-slides-of-the-presentations/

Oct

Effects of excessive use of mobile phone technology in India on human health during COVID-19 lockdown

Behaviour, Cognition, COVID -19, Health, Mobile phones, Physiological, Psychological

Tyagi A, Prasad AK, Bhatia D. Effects of excessive use of mobile phone technology in India on human health during COVID-19 lockdown. Technol Soc. 2021;67:101762. doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101762 Abstract Objective The global health crisis in the form of COVID-19 has forced people to shift their routine activities into a remote environment with the help of technology. The outbreak […]

Oct

Psychological and Emotional Effects of Digital Technology on Children in COVID-19 Pandemic

Adolescents, Children, COVID -19, Digital Technology, Mental Illness, Smartphones

Limone, P.; Toto, G.A. Psychological and Emotional Effects of Digital Technology on Children in COVID-19 Pandemic. Brain Sci. 2021, 11, 1126. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11091126 Abstract COVID-19 has caused obstacles in continuing normal life almost everywhere in the world by causing the implementation of social distancing and eventually imposing the lockdown. This has become the reason for the increase in technology […]

Oct

Gateshead conspiracy theorist who caused more than £100,000 of damage by torching 5G mast walks free

5G, Arson, Mental Health, Schizophrenia

Source: https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/gateshead-conspiracy-theorist-5g-mast-21731739 David Patterson, of Felling, was suffering a psychotic episode when he set fire to the BT mast above a garage in Gateshead. Excerpt: Newcastle Crown Court heard Patterson, who has schizophrenia, was suffering a mental disorder at the time and had been adversely influenced by material he had read online. He had stopped taking […]

Oct

ICASA OUTLINES PLANS FOR THE EXPEDITED LICENSING OF HIGH DEMAND SPECTRUM AND THE WIRELESS OPEN ACCESS NETWORK

ICASA, IMT, March 2022, Spectrum, Woan

Source: https://www.icasa.org.za/news/2021/icasa-outlines-plans-for-the-expedited-licensing-of-high-demand-spectrum-and-the-wireless-open-access-network 1 October 2021 Pretoria – The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA/the Authority) wishes to advise stakeholders of the truncated timetable and roadmap for the expedited licensing of the International Mobile Telecommunications (“IMT”) spectrum, also known as high-demand spectrum, and the Wireless Open Access Network (“WOAN”) published today, 1 October 2021. This roadmap […]

Oct

Why it’s not possible for the Covid vaccines to contain a magnetic tracking chip that connects to 5G

News, Videos

5G, CellPhones, Microchip, Vaccine

Among the conspiracy theories circulating about the coronavirus pandemic, one claim is that Covid-19 vaccines contain microchips that the government or global elites like Bill Gates would use to track citizens. Despite viral videos claiming a chip in the vaccines makes people’s arms magnetic, the conspiracy is false. Excerpt “There’s lots of stuff that the government can use […]

Sep

EMFSA September 2021 Newsletter