Are smartphones really making our children sad?

Last week, the children’s commissioner, Anne Longfield, launched a campaign to help parents regulate internet and smartphone use at home. She suggested that the overconsumption of social media was a problem akin to that of junk-food diets. “None of us, as parents, would want our children to eat junk food all the time – double cheeseburger, chips, …

A comment about health impacts of cell phone radiation

As we all rapidly are being forced into the new generation of electronic gadgets and wireless services, sometimes referred to as the “Internet of Things”, more people are asking themselves if the ever increasing levels of artificial electromagnetic fields (EMFs) really are safe for living organisms, writes Olle Johansson, associate professor at the Karolinska Institute. …

Fears for children’s health sparks protests over Hampstead phone masts application

Plans to erect two “unsightly” mobile phone masts near four schools have sparked a storm of protest. Telecoms company Cornerstone Telecommunications Infrastructure Ltd (CTIL) and Spanish multinational Telefónica made the application to raise two masts and equipment on the top of Henderson Court in Fitzjohns Avenue, Hampstead, in July. But members of the community and …