The age-old adage First Do No Harm should be the tempering goal of not only medicine, but government and industry, especially when they team up to deploy new technologies, set policies and serve the people.

This blog exists to reveal and analyze areas in which these powerful groups are failing to "first do no harm."

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Digital dementia in the young: our sacrifice to the wireless god


Is the human race willing to sacrifice its young to the wireless god?
A new article describes a "digital dementia" in young people in Korea. Cell phone/gadget companies have created devices to take over normal daily brain functions and capabilities. Addiction to computer internet/games already existed prior to portable devices. The utter lack of vision or foresight as to the ways this technology was bound to affect people is noteworthy. The biological and social damage will continue in the wake of serving the wireless god.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Medical industry CAN'T add 2+2 about EMR biological effects, or WON'T


Dariusz Leszczynski, PhD, asks in his recent blog how doctors can so enthusiastically pursue new wireless medical treatments using focused (non-thermal) non-ionizing radiation to kill cancer and for other good purposes, while they continue to deny any biological effects from the same kind of radiation when used by telecom and energy industries.

Telecom and energy industries expose the entire populations to haphazard mixtures of radiofrequency radiation unlike medical RF, which is controlled and focused to treat biological conditions and diseases. So, either these doctors cannot add 2+2 about biological impacts, or they do not want to.

Sadly, doctors are only human with the same wireless dependency and fascination as other people. They run with the culture's lemming stampede the way doctors did in the age of Big Tobacco. They would rather point their fun RF machines at a few cancer cells than save countless lives in the bigger picture.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Cyber attacks on medical devices a risk with wireless hospitals and devices...SOLUTION

US warns of cyber attacks on medical devices 
 
AFP - US authorities on Thursday warned makers of medical devices and hospital networks to step up efforts to guard against potential cyber attacks.

The US Food and Drug Administration said implanted devices, which could include pacemakers or defibrillators, could be connected to networks that are vulnerable to hackers.

An FDA warning notice was sent to medical device manufacturers, hospitals, medical device user facilities, health care technical staff and biomedical engineers.

It said the agency has recently "become aware of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents that could directly impact medical devices or hospital network operations."

 
The truth is that wireless technology and systems ENABLE hackers. A simple solution to hacking would be to revert to wired systems, and break up networks. For example, medical facilities could have many ports to attach non-wireless personal gadgets and upload/download using fiber optic, speed-of-light, systems. Wired/fiber systems could still be hacked, but not remotely. And not if the wiring has firewalls and does not connect automatically to a central location.

Non-wireless mechanical medical devices are not easily hacked the ways wireless ones are. RF radiation also increases the risk of unintended electromagnetic interference with implants.

Cyber attacks of wireless medicine are only one problem. RF medical devices and systems also expose the most vulnerable people - patients - to increased ambient radiofrequency radiation. RF has repeatedly been shown to interfere with healing and cell membrane functions. It creates biological oxidative stress that functions like other kinds of stress in creating free radical damage. Denial of RF biological risks is like the defense of tobacco smoking as harmless and even healthy a couple decades ago.
 

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Digital dementia in the young: our sacrifice to the wireless god


Is the human race willing to sacrifice its young to the wireless god?
A new article describes a "digital dementia" in young people in Korea. Cell phone/gadget companies have created devices to take over normal daily brain functions and capabilities. Addiction to computer internet/games already existed prior to portable devices. The utter lack of vision or foresight as to the ways this technology was bound to affect people is noteworthy. The biological and social damage will continue in the wake of serving the wireless god.

Friday, June 14, 2013

Medical industry CAN'T add 2+2 about EMR biological effects, or WON'T


Dariusz Leszczynski, PhD, asks in his recent blog how doctors can so enthusiastically pursue new wireless medical treatments using focused (non-thermal) non-ionizing radiation to kill cancer and for other good purposes, while they continue to deny any biological effects from the same kind of radiation when used by telecom and energy industries.

Telecom and energy industries expose the entire populations to haphazard mixtures of radiofrequency radiation unlike medical RF, which is controlled and focused to treat biological conditions and diseases. So, either these doctors cannot add 2+2 about biological impacts, or they do not want to.

Sadly, doctors are only human with the same wireless dependency and fascination as other people. They run with the culture's lemming stampede the way doctors did in the age of Big Tobacco. They would rather point their fun RF machines at a few cancer cells than save countless lives in the bigger picture.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Cyber attacks on medical devices a risk with wireless hospitals and devices...SOLUTION

US warns of cyber attacks on medical devices 
 
AFP - US authorities on Thursday warned makers of medical devices and hospital networks to step up efforts to guard against potential cyber attacks.

The US Food and Drug Administration said implanted devices, which could include pacemakers or defibrillators, could be connected to networks that are vulnerable to hackers.

An FDA warning notice was sent to medical device manufacturers, hospitals, medical device user facilities, health care technical staff and biomedical engineers.

It said the agency has recently "become aware of cybersecurity vulnerabilities and incidents that could directly impact medical devices or hospital network operations."

 
The truth is that wireless technology and systems ENABLE hackers. A simple solution to hacking would be to revert to wired systems, and break up networks. For example, medical facilities could have many ports to attach non-wireless personal gadgets and upload/download using fiber optic, speed-of-light, systems. Wired/fiber systems could still be hacked, but not remotely. And not if the wiring has firewalls and does not connect automatically to a central location.

Non-wireless mechanical medical devices are not easily hacked the ways wireless ones are. RF radiation also increases the risk of unintended electromagnetic interference with implants.

Cyber attacks of wireless medicine are only one problem. RF medical devices and systems also expose the most vulnerable people - patients - to increased ambient radiofrequency radiation. RF has repeatedly been shown to interfere with healing and cell membrane functions. It creates biological oxidative stress that functions like other kinds of stress in creating free radical damage. Denial of RF biological risks is like the defense of tobacco smoking as harmless and even healthy a couple decades ago.