Most major medical groups, including the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration, have proclaimed cellphones safe to use and not risky to your long term health, but some doctors have proclaimed caution in these findings.
According to a study from the National Institutes of Health, cellphones may alter your brain activity, and it could be potentially damaging in the long term.
The European Environmental Agency has pushed for more studies, saying cellphones could be as big a public health risk as smoking, asbestos and leaded gasoline.
Concern about possible dire health effects from using cellphones stems in large part from the publicizing of certain results from human and laboratory studies as well as from stories about individuals who developed a brain tumor after years of cell phone use.