Fertility study builds buzz around cellphones
Feb. 25
Location, location, location makes a big difference, says British infertility specialist Iwan Lewis-Jones, who, like Agarwal, is conducting laboratory studies of cellphones' impact on sperm specimens. In research still ongoing, Agarwal says, he has found that sperm quality decreases in semen specimens left sitting next to a phone in talk mode for as little as an hour. "We are not saying that mobile phones affect fertility," he says. The only way to answer that question definitively, he says, is to randomly assign men to use a cellphone or not. Men who talked on cellphones more than four hours a day had lower sperm counts, a study found.
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