Medical memo: Calling all men: Cell phones and sperm
Medical memo
Cell phones have revolutionized communication. Like many innovations, however, these devices have been greeted with concern as well as celebration. Because cell phones emit radiofrequency electromagnetic waves, they can interfere with some implanted cardiac pacemakers — but only if the user holds the phone directly over the pacemaker. Similarly, cell phones have the potential to disrupt sensitive electronic monitoring devices in hospital intensive care units — but only a minority of monitors are vulnerable, and even then, only very close proximity between phone and monitor poses a risk.
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