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News Peter Cochrane's Blog: Protestors clueless on wireless health risks iPhone on the Edge 'disappoints' Apple co-founder Even the spectre of a mobile phone mast outside your bedroom window is nothing to... [27 Mar 2008]
Wi-fi health risks to be probed
News The Health Protection Agency has announced a research programme into the possible health implications of wi-fi technology. Professor Pat Troop, chief executive of the Health Protection... [15 Oct 2007]
MoD fires up £5m incident reporting contract
News Michael Rutter, director of safety and environmental policy at the MoD, said Iris will increase the MoD's understanding and awareness of occupational health and safety risks, and produce "battle-winning... [04 Jul 2007]
Techies split over wi-fi health fears
News When it comes to wi-fi, silicon.com readers are divided over whether they should be concerned about potential health risks, according to our latest exclusive poll. Readers were asked whether they are... [24 May 2007]
CIO Essentials: Web 2.0 hype, Google and wi-fi risks
News On the one hand, risks and project scopes need rigorous control which can tend to suppress creation. Back to the Leader article, however - yes of course we need to understand any potential health risk... [01 May 2007]
Podcast: The Weekly Round-Up 27.04.07
Round-Up Podcast Rights for robots and wi-fi health risks are all covered off in this week's Weekly Round-Up podcast.silicon.com's Steve Ranger, Natasha Lomas and Andy McCue also discuss what tunes are the best to grill by. [27 Apr 2007]
FS businesses collecting the wrong data - report
News Risk is a key factor for banks but they are not good at analysing it from the perspective of risks to reputation, knowledge or succession planning. Performance management systems are being further obscured by... [23 Apr 2007]
Patients get NHS e-record opt out
News But health minister Lord Warner insisted that access to the system - by smartcard and PIN - would be secure and warned: "We have to make sure people understand the risks they are taking by not allowing... [18 Dec 2006]
'Mobile phones don't cause cancer' - study
News There have been concerns about the health risks of mobile phones for several years due to the electromagnetic fields they emit. A team at the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen was... [06 Dec 2006]
Kids risk "e-discrimination" warns think tank
News "E-discrimination" is just one of the risks that could result from the massive increase in government databases holding information on children, according to a new report. One area of concern FIPR highlighted is... [22 Nov 2006]
Mobiles 'should not be banned in hospitals'
News The pair added that the most likely downside from the use of mobiles in hospitals will be the annoyance caused by ringtones, rather than health risks posed by their use. While many hospitals remain no-go... [13 Oct 2006]
NHS IT risks failure, warn angry angels
News In the survey of 4,451 nurses from a range of specialities and grades, 95 per cent said nurse training was central to the success of the planned electronic patient health record. RCN general secretary Dr Beverly Malone... [24 Aug 2006]
RFID blood-tracking trial planned
News CfH said the IT specification, which can be used with bar coding and radio frequency identification technologies, builds on the experience of users of the different systems currently available and addresses the patient safety... [22 Aug 2006]
Taskforce aims to end NHS care records row
News The so-called Care Records Service (CRS) is a central part of the £6.2bn Connecting for Health NHS IT programme but its rollout is running two years late because of disagreements over exactly which patient information... [20 Jul 2006]
Update: Billionaire Buffett gives $30bn to Gates Foundation
News He said it requires a willingness to take large risks to fix complex problems that others have likely failed trying to solve. The Gates Foundation focuses on global health issues, such as the Gavi... [27 Jun 2006]
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