Magnetism

The Times is reporting that Britain's National Health Service will now allow doctors to prescribe magnet therapy for pain.

The NHS Prescription Pricing Authority has decreed that magnets are a good use of NHS cash, and a better bargain than bandages and nurses’ time.

As well as including magnets on the official list of items that can be prescribed, the NHS has haggled suppliers down from £29 to £13.80.

Magnetism enthusiasts reportedly include Cherie Blair, Bill Clinton and Sir Anthony Hopkins.

But not everyone is convinced.

Professor Leonard Finegold, from Drexel University in Philadelphia, and Professor Bruce Flamm, from Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Riverside, California recently pooh poohed the treatment in the prestigious British Medical Journal.

Below is a magnet therapy device for horses.