Heritage bosses aim to turn Hadrian’s Wall into tourist hotspot with £30m cash injection

Heritage bosses aim to turn Hadrian’s Wall into tourist hotspot to rival the Great Wall of China with £30m cash injection that will highlight how it was an inspiration for Game of Thrones Hadrian’s Wall will get a £30 million cash injection to improve, maintain the site Plans to turn the wall into an attraction comparable … Read more

Heritage bosses aim to turn Hadrian’s Wall into tourist hotspot with £30m cash injection

Heritage bosses aim to turn Hadrian’s Wall into tourist hotspot to rival the Great Wall of China with £30m cash injection that will highlight how it was an inspiration for Game of Thrones Hadrian’s Wall will get a £30 million cash injection to improve, maintain the site Plans to turn the wall into an attraction comparable … Read more

Jabs to go! Drive-through anti-Covid injection centres could vaccinate millions a week

The rapid success of drive-through vaccination centres could lead the UK out of lockdown before Boris Johnson’s roadmap suggests.   A trial that delivered 2,300 Covid jabs in just one day at a car park near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, was 360 per cent more than an equivalent clinic, The Mirror reports. But whilst the system … Read more

Don’t panic – Covid-19 injection will still keep you out of hospital

Don’t panic – Covid-19 injection will still keep you out of hospital even if you fall ill with South African variant, writes PROFESSOR HUGH PENNINGTON By Professor Hugh Pennington For The Daily Mail Published: 22:56 GMT, 7 February 2021 | Updated: 23:06 GMT, 7 February 2021 A vaccine is not an impenetrable barrier in the body … Read more

Don’t panic – Covid-19 injection will still keep you out of hospital

Don’t panic – Covid-19 injection will still keep you out of hospital even if you fall ill with South African variant, writes PROFESSOR HUGH PENNINGTON By Professor Hugh Pennington For The Daily Mail Published: 22:56 GMT, 7 February 2021 | Updated: 23:06 GMT, 7 February 2021 A vaccine is not an impenetrable barrier in the body … Read more

Jane Fonda gives a thumbs up as she receives her injection of the COVID-19 vaccine on Instagram

Jane Fonda, 83, gives a thumbs up as she receives her injection of the COVID-19 vaccine on Instagram: ‘Got vaccinated today! Yay! It doesn’t hurt’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 02:52 GMT, 1 February 2021 | Updated: 02:52 GMT, 1 February 2021 She’s a Hollywood legend set to receive a coveted honorary award at … Read more

Patients feel less pain when they SMILE during an injection, research suggests

Is this the answer to needle phobia? Patients feel less pain when they SMILE during an injection, research suggests Participants were injected while either smiling, grimacing or straight-faced  Smilers reported 40 per cent less pain than those with a blank facial expression Smiling may trick people’s brains into believing they are happy   By Victoria Allen … Read more

Patients feel less pain when they SMILE during an injection, research suggests

Is this the answer to needle phobia? Patients feel less pain when they SMILE during an injection, research suggests Participants were injected while either smiling, grimacing or straight-faced  Smilers reported 40 per cent less pain than those with a blank facial expression Smiling may trick people’s brains into believing they are happy   By Victoria Allen … Read more

Simple gel injection can spare agony for men undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer

Men undergoing radiotherapy for prostate cancer could be spared one of the treatment’s most distressing side effects – thanks to a simple injection of gel Almost 50,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year in the UK Surgery is one option but can often lead to impotence and urinary incontinence Radiotherapy is another option … Read more

Pain: Grimacing can make an injection more bearable, study claims ahead of COVID vaccine rollout

Grin and bear it: Scientists claim smiling or grimacing can make an injection feel less painful ahead of rollout of COVID vaccine US researchers recruited 231 students to pull expressions while being injected These included a neutral face, regular smiling, a ‘genuine’ smile and a grimace The latter two expressions lowered the pain felt by … Read more