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Biological effects of radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic fields have been a subject of investigation in many North American laboratories over the past fifty years. A rising level of interest was evident over the decades of the nineteen hundred sixties, seventies and early eighties but, as noted by others (Michaelson et al., 1995), research activities declined from the mid-1980s until the mid-1990s.

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Sheppard, A.R. (1997). Biological research in North America. In: Kuster, N., Balzano, Q., Lin, J.C. (eds) Mobile Communications Safety. Telecommunications Technology & Applications Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1205-5_7

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