Is the effect of mobile phone radiofrequency waves on human skin perfusion non-thermal?

Objective: To establish whether SkBF can be modified by exposure to the radiofrequency waves emitted by a mobile phone when the latter is held against the jaw and ear.

Methods: Variations in SkBF and Tsk in adult volunteers were simultaneously recorded with a thermostatic laser Doppler system during a 20-minute "radiofrequency" exposure session and a 20-minute "sham" session. The skin microvessels' vasodilatory reserve was assessed with a heat challenge at the end of the protocol.

Effects of GSM 900 MHz on middle cerebral artery blood flow assessed by transcranial Doppler sonography.

Mobile phone use has increased worldwide but its possible effects on the brain remain unclear. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of acute exposure to a radio frequency electromagnetic field (RF EMF) generated by a mobile phone operating in the Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) 900 MHz on cerebral blood flow. Twenty-nine volunteers attended two experimental sessions: a sham exposure session and a real exposure session in a cross-over double-blind study in which a mobile phone was positioned on the left side of the head.

[Quantification of the part allocated to the preventability of vitamin K antagonists therapy bleeding events].

A prospective cohort of patients with a high INR (>or=5) and being treated by vitamin K antagonists (VKA) was assessed in the Amiens University Hospital. One of the purposes of the study was to assess the preventability of the haemorrhages due to VKA. The preventability concept is not very used in France.

[Mouth ulcers induced by enteric-coated mycophenolate sodium (Myfortic].

Background: Mycophenolate sodium (Myfortic) is an enteric-coated formulation of the immunosuppressant therapy mycophenolic acid. We report a case of diffuse mouth ulceration in a patient treated with Myfortic presenting recurrence after another dose of drug.

Patients And Methods: We report the case of a 26-year-old female patient with systemic lupus erythematosus, initially treated with corticosteroids and mycophenolate mofetil, but which was stopped because of varicella-zoster dissemination and leucopoenia.