{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5215","number":"5215","name":"Anonymous Anonymous","organization":"","posted":"2026-10-27T04:00Z","received":"2026-10-21T04:00Z","body":"Thank you for this opportunity to comment on the serious health impacts of  EMF radiation on the human body.  EMF is negatively impactful to children and adults in the following categories:\n\nNEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN\n\nCARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS\n\nCARCENEGETIC EFFECTS\n\nINFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS)\n\nI am a physician with over 40 years of clinical experience. Please consult the scientific articles referenced below for clear evidence of these effects.  The best background paper of all of these is:\n\nWi-Fi is an important threat to human health\n\nEnvironmental Research\n\nPublished July 2018\n\nhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355\n\nI will also comment that EMF radiation is widespread in hospital settings with the extensive use of WiFi enabled instruments.  By permitting these signals to remain in hospitals, students, providers, teachers, patients, and the care team will all be detrimentally impacted. While it is very disappointing that HHS and the FCC have been slow to recognize the volume of evidence corroborating these serious health impacts----it is never too late to enact rules that will better protect the public going forward.  Thank you for your consideration of this important scientific evidence of the harmful impacts of EMF radiation on the human body.\n\n\nREFERENCES\n\n1. THE IMPACT OF EMF ON THE NEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN\n\ni. Health effects of electromagnetic fields on children\n \nClinical and Experimental Pediatrics 2020;63(11):422-428.\n\nPublished online: May 26, 2020\n\nhttps://www.e-cep.org/journal/view.php?doi=10.3345/cep.2019.01494\n\nii. Environmental and auto-induced RF-EMF adult and children far-field exposure simulations between 450 MHz and 26 GHz\n\nPhysics in Medicine & Biology, Volume 71, Number 17\n\nPublished 2 September 2026\n\nhttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6560/ae97ac/pdf\n\n2. CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS OF EMF\n\ni. The interplay of heart rate variability and ventricular repolarization parameters in the obese state: a review\n\nCardiovascular Endocrinology & Metabolism \n\nPublished March 2025. \n\nhttps://www.ovid.com/jnls/cardiovascularendocrinology/fulltext/10.1097/xce.0000000000000323~the-interplay-of-heart-rate-variability-and-ventricular?context=latestarticles\n\nii. Exposure to cell phones reduces heart rate variability in both normal-weight and obese normotensive medical students\n\nExplore (NY)\n\nPublished Jul-Aug 2020 \n\nhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32249199/\n\n\n3. CARCENEGETIC EFFECTS OF EMF\n\ni. Wi-Fi is an important threat to human health\n\nEnvironmental Research\n\nPublished July 2018\n\nhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013935118300355\n\nII. Risks to Health and Well-Being From Radio-Frequency Radiation Emitted by Cell Phones and Other Wireless Devices\n\nSec. Radiation and Health\n\nVolume 7 - 2019\n\nPublished 12 August 2019\n\nhttps://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2019.00223/full\n\n4. INFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS) OF EMF\n\ni. Thermal and non-thermal health effects of low intensity non-ionizing radiation: An international perspective\n\nEnviron Pollution\n\nPublished Nov. 2018\n\nhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30025338/\n\nii. Oxidative mechanisms of biological activity of low-intensity radiofrequency radiation\n\nElectromagnetic Biology Medicine\n\nPublished July 2016\n\nhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26151230/\n","attachments":[],"attachment_inventory":true,"withheld":false,"source":"https://www.regulations.gov/comment/HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5215","tags":["child-development","biology-metabolism","exposure-places","policy-standards","research-evidence"],"source_hash":"966eedd0c4a526bee8e3979199f07ab483cad349675d64bc2ccb6abef7032c04","slug":"child-development-comment-5215","classification":{"id":"HHS-OASH-2026-0397-5215","body_sha256":"84b7de752dcb86251a2f28ec01390e4b7a7f9e9a7be3296324ab0011cc1df85a","status":"ai_reviewed","primary_topic":"children","topics":[{"id":"children","evidence":"ren and adults in the following categories:\n\nNEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN\n\nCARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS\n\nCARCENEGETIC EFFECTS\n\nINFLAMATORY EFFEC"},{"id":"cardiac","evidence":"ries:\n\nNEUROLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN\n\nCARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS\n\nCARCENEGETIC EFFECTS\n\nINFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS)\n\nI"},{"id":"cancer","evidence":"LOPMENT OF CHILDREN\n\nCARDIOVASCULAR EFFECTS\n\nCARCENEGETIC EFFECTS\n\nINFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS)\n\nI am a physician with o"},{"id":"mechanisms","evidence":"\n\nCARCENEGETIC EFFECTS\n\nINFLAMATORY EFFECTS (OXIDATIVE STRESS)\n\nI am a physician with over 40 years of clinical experience. 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