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Mobile phones and health: an interim report

British Medical Association
Board of Science and Education
2001 There are now about 40 million mobile phone users in the UK and concerns have been raised that the use of this technology has increased dramatically without enough understanding of the possible adverse health effects of the electromagnetic fields produced by the phones and their base stations.

This interim report summarises ongoing research and the current knowledge about mobile phones and public health.

Editorial board
A publication from the BMA Science Department and the Board of Science and Education

Chairman, Board of Science and Education	Sir William Asscher
Head of Professional Resources and Research Group	Professor Vivienne Nathanson
Editor	Dr David Morgan
Researched and written by	Laura Conway
Contributor	Hilary Forrester
Editorial Secretariat	Sherri Cooper
	Marcia Darvell
	Darshna Gohil
	Nicholas Harrison
	Nicky Jayesinghe
	Samantha Sharp

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN: 0 7279 1647 5

Cover photograph: Image Bank

Printed by the BMA Publications Unit
© British Medical Association 2001

This report was prepared under the auspices of the Board of Science and Education of the British Medical Association, whose membership for 2000/01 was as follows:

Sir Christopher Paine	President, BMA
Professor B R Hopkinson	Chairman, Representative Body
Dr I G Bogle	Chairman, BMA Council
Dr W J Appleyard	Treasurer, BMA
Sir William Asscher	Chairman, Board of Science and Education
Dr P H Dangerfield	Deputy Chairman, Board of Science and Education
Dr A Elsharkawy
Dr H W K Fell
Miss C Fozzard (Deputy)
Dr S Hajioff
Dr V Leach
Dr P Maguire
Dr S J Nelson (Deputy)
Dr N D L Olsen
Professor M R Rees
Dr S J Richards
Dr S Taylor
Dr D M B Ward

Approval for publication as a BMA policy report was recommended by BMA Executive Committee of Council on 11 April 2001

Acknowledgements
The Association is very grateful for the help provided by the BMA Committees and many outside experts and organisations and would particularly like to thank Dr Alan Preece, Dr Kerry Gardiner, the Federation of the Electronics Industry, and all the researchers who provided information about their current and forthcoming work.