Workplace Report (January 2005)

Health & safety news

Laptop health risk for men

Male workers should keep their laptops off their laps or risk damaging their fertility.

Laptops reach high internal temperatures and can heat up the scrotum, potentially affecting the quality and quantity of men's sperm in the long term, say researchers led by Dr Yefim Sheynkin in December's issue of the journal Human Reproduction.


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