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The impact of cell phone towers on house prices in residential neighborhoods
by Sandy G. Bond & Ko-Kang Wang
This article examines whether proximity to cellular phone towers has an impact on residential property values and the extent of any impact. First, a survey approach is used to examine how residents perceive living near cellular phone base stations (CPBSs) and how residents evaluate the impacts of CPBSs. Next, a market study attempts to confirm the perceived value impacts reported in the survey by analyzing actual property sales data. A multiple regression analysis in a hedonic pricing framework is used tomeasure the price impact of proximity to CPBSs. Both the survey and market sales analysis find that CPBSs have a negative impact on the prices of houses in the study areas.
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Cell Phone Safety and the Industry(Four Part Series)
Four Part Series Interview conducted by KGNU Boulder community radio
A look at why British safety agencies discourage cell phone use among young children and the FDA doesn't.
According to some scientists, high use of cell phones among young children might increase their risk of exposure to harmful radiation. In Great Britain, the advisory board on radiological hazards, the Health Protection Agency, recommends that parents limit young kids to using cell phones “only for essential purposes.” They’re concerned that growing children’s brains might be susceptible to damage if cell phone radiation radiation is dangerous--and currently, they say, we have not done enough studies to answer that question. Meanwhile, in the USA, the FDA says that cell phones are safe.
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Decreased Survival for Childhood Leukemia in Proximity to Television Towers
by Bruce Hocking & Ian Gordon
ABSTRACT – Previously, an increased risk of childhood leukemia was identified among children who resided in an inner ring (radius~4km) of 3 municipalities surrounding television towers, compared with children who resided in an outer ring (radius~4-12 km) of 6 municipalities surrounding, but farther away from, the tower, which are situated in North Sydney, Australia. In the current study, the authors examined the survival experience of these children for all childhood leukemias, and for acute lymphatic leukemia (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, 9 th revision [ICD-9] rubric 204.0) in particular. Of 123 cases of acute lymphatic leukemia, 29 cases (16 of whom died) were in the inner ring of municipalities nearest the towers, and 94 cases (34 of whom died) occurred in the outer, more-distant ring. There was a significant difference in survival rates between the 2 groups (log-rank test, p-0.03; Wilcoxon, p-0.05). The 5-yr survival in the inner ring of municipalities was 55%,and in the outer ring was 71% (i.e., subjects in the inner ring were 23% less likely to survive than those in the outer ring); at 10 yr, survival in the inner and outer rings was 33% and 62% respectively. Following adjustment, the mortality rate ratio that the authors used to compare the inner ring with the outer ring was 2.1 (95% confidence interval – 1.1, 4.0). There was an association between residential proximity to the television towers and decreased survival among cases of childhood leukemia in North Sydney, Australia.
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