{"id":4127,"date":"2012-06-18T20:15:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4127"},"modified":"2018-07-18T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T02:05:28","slug":"toronto-hospital-is-first-to-recognize-symptoms-from-wireless-radiation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/?p=4127","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Hospital is First to Recognize Symptoms from Wireless Radiation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, June 18, 2012 \/CNW\/ &#8211; Women&#8217;s College Hospital says family doctors must learn to detect the symptoms of exposure to wireless radiation.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital released a statement saying the symptoms include disrupted sleep, headaches, nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, memory problems, and skin rashes. These symptoms are now labelled Electro-magnetic Hyper-sensitivity, or &#8220;EMS&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Health-care practitioners need to better understand EMS so they can help their patients,&#8221; said Dr. Riina Bray, medical director of the hospital&#8217;s Environmental Health Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bray says the world is becoming dominated by wireless internet, cell phones and cell towers, and there can be a broad range of health impacts.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital&#8217;s Environmental Health Clinic has begun holding educational workshops on the subject for doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the World Health Organization placed microwave radiation from wireless internet and cell phones on an official Cancer watch-list. Since then several schools have removed their wifi systems and the Catholic teacher&#8217;s union in Ontario has called for a moratorium on wifi installations in classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>For further information:<\/p>\n<p>Background:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.womenscollegehospital.ca\/news-and-events\/connect\/the-effects-of-invisible-waves\">www.womenscollegehospital.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/story\/994377\/toronto-hospital-is-first-to-recognize-symptoms-from-wireless-radiation  \">http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/en\/story\/994377\/toronto-hospital-is-first-to-recognize-symptoms-from-wireless-radiation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO, June 18, 2012 \/CNW\/ &#8211; Women&#8217;s College Hospital says family doctors must learn to detect the symptoms of exposure to wireless radiation. The hospital released a statement saying the symptoms include disrupted sleep, headaches, nausea, dizziness, heart palpitations, memory problems, and skin rashes. These symptoms are now labelled Electro-magnetic Hyper-sensitivity, or &#8220;EMS&#8221;. &#8220;Health-care practitioners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,209,5,391,210,3,395,227,378,382,588,19,384,385,383,377,208,371,587],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anxiety","category-dizziness","category-ehs","category-eye-problems","category-headaches","category-health_and_safety","category-heart-palpitations","category-hospital","category-insomnia","category-irritability","category-memory-problems","category-ontario","category-pressure-in-the-head","category-ringing-in-the-ears","category-sharp-pain","category-sleep-problems","category-symptoms","category-toronto","category-weakness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5168,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4127\/revisions\/5168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emrabc.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}