EMs makes the news

Hi All
Just to let you know there has been an increase in the level of
interest in EMS in the UK. Two major braodcaters (BBC and ITV) have
featured it in their main news and the following appeared in a
National paper.
The product I sell Bioguard has featured in two other papers as a top
10 healthy present to buy for yourself or for someone else. The
Papers were The Mail and the Independent on Sunday. Sales have risen
and I am delighted with the feedback I have received from people
trying them. I am not trying to push sales on this site just to let
you know that the EMS issue is being recognised and that some people
are finding relief from a bioguard and a biophone.

My website has details www.magnatech.ik.com also a discount for Esens
members and in the file section of our Yahoo group I have downloaded
trials material.
All the best
Ian

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Scientists serious about 'electricity sickness' claims
Reports by Nic Fleming, Health Correspondent
(Filed: 24/01/2005)

Scientists and health advisers are taking the claims of people who
say electricity makes them ill seriously for the first time.

The National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) is carrying out a
review of existing scientific studies into "electromagnetic
hypersensitivity" (EHS).


Brian Stein suffers from electromagnetic hypersensitivity
Click here for his story

Two studies into the condition, funded with £750,000 from the
Department of Health and the telecommunications industry, are already
under way.

Sir William Stewart, the government's adviser on radiation, has
called for more research into the issue.

Some researchers believe a proportion of the population suffers ill
health, with symptoms including fatigue, severe headaches and skin
problems, because of exposure to electromagnetic fields. Other
scientists say there is no evidence.

The Swedish government, which recognised EHS as a physical impairment
in 2000, calculates that 3.1 per cent of its population - 200,000
people - suffer from the condition. A recent warning by Sir William,
head of the NRPB and the Health Protection Agency, that parents
should limit their children's use of mobile phones received
widespread publicity.

However, his suggestion that another section of the population, as
well as the young, could have extra sensitivity to exposure to either
radio frequency fields from mobiles or electromagnetic fields in
general did not.

The NRPB has commissioned Dr Neil Irvine, of the Health Protection
Agency, to carry out a review of existing scientific literature on
EHS.

His report, focusing on symptoms, prognosis and treatment, will be
published in the summer.

The Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research programme, funded
by the Government and the telecommunications industry, is spending
£8.6 million on 29 studies, two of which will investigate EHS.

A team at King's College, London, is looking at whether mobile phones
cause symptoms such as headaches, nausea and fatigue in those who
claim to be hypersensitive and those who do not.

Researchers at the University of Essex are exposing two groups of
volunteers to signals from a mobile mast to test if cognitive
functions such as attention span and memory are affected. Half will
be people who say they suffer EHS.

Dr David Dowson, a former GP who is now a complementary medicine
specialist based in Bath, said he had seen around 10 patients he
believed to be suffering from EHS. "I think the condition is
increasing in prevalence, because we are living in a more
electrically polluted environment."

Olle Johansson, associate professor of neuroscience at the Karolinska
Institute in Sweden, has been studying EHS for 20 years.

He has shown in experiments that there is an increase in the number
of mast cells near the surface of skin when exposed to
electromagnetic fields, a similar reaction to that when it is exposed
to radioactive material.

He said: "If you put a radio near a source of EMFs you will get
interference. The human brain has an electric field so if you put
sources of EMFs nearby, it is not surprising that you get
interference, interaction with systems and damage to cells and
molecules.''

Others say the condition is in the mind.