Over the weekend, some U.K. newspapers broke the news about a UCLA study coming out this summer that is bound to make headlines Stateside: it shows that pregnant women who use cell phones increase the likelihood that their children will have behavioral problems.

According to the Independent article, the study will say that using a cell phone 2-3 times a day can lead to babies being hyper and having emotional problems by the time they hit school. Possible reason? Radiation has been shown in experiments to change brain structure in animals.

Giving the kids cell phones to use before they're 7 apparently heightens the risk.

The study followed about 13,000 Danish kids, and is especially interesting because one of the lead authors used to think that cell phones carried no serious health risks.

So non-ionizing radiation is not my forte, but if the baby is affected by cell phone use, I wonder what's happening to Mom, who's actually putting the phone against her head?

Study's supposed to come out in the July issue of Epidemiology.

Thanks, Noel

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