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From: yoshio@makaha.cs.ucla.edu (Yoshio Turner)
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Subject: Re: Health hazard from screens
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Date: 21 Jan 91 18:59:52 GMT
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In article <91016.100008JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET (Josh Hayes) writes:
>The question of health hazards arising from VLF and ELF emissions
>from color monitors is not trivial; epidemiological evidence gives
>strong support to the contention that there is a relationship between
>such emissions and, for example, elevated rates of miscarriage.

And cancer.  See the recent EPA draft report, "Evaluation of the
Potential Carcinogenicity of Electromagnetic Fields"
(EPA/600/6-90-005B), available from ORD Publications Office, CERI-FRN,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 W. Martin Luther King Dr.,
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268; 513-569-7562.  Also see the recent book
"Extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields: the question of
cancer" edited by Bary W. Wilson, Richard G. Stevens, and Larry E.
Anderson, published by Battelle Press (Columbus) 1990.  According to
the February 1991 issue of the IEEE newsletter "The Institute", the
EPA draft report concludes that "60-hertz magnetic fields are a
possible, though not proven, cause of cancer in humans and that more
research is necessary".

>For the original poster: there was an entire issue of MacWorld
>devoted to this very issue (which, unfortunately, I have loaned
>out to my secretary, who is pregnant and sits in front of a color
>monitor on a IIcx all day; so I can't get the month and such).
>I am sure there are some contacts listed in there that can provide
>the information you seek, or tell you that that information simply
>does not exist.

This rather alarmist issue of Macworld is dated July, 1990.
Unfortunately, the references therein are quite vague, making it
difficult to find the original scientific conference/journal papers.

Yoshio