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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
Pubs have been forced to throw away up to 87 million pints of beer in the UK since the start of the pandemic, an industry body has claimed. The British Beer & Pub Association (BBPA) said the waste was the equivalent of £331 million in sales, based on the average cost of a pint at … Read more
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
Asda becomes first supermarket to dish out Covid jabs as woman, 78, gets her injection – with store hoping to vaccinate 240 people a day Harbans Kaur received the jab at Asda in Cape Hill, Smethwick, West Midlands Took place in boarded-up corner of store which used to house George clothing The seven-day hub opens … Read more
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
Nurse, 56, jailed for life for murdering her disabled husband, 34, in 1997 by injecting him with insulin loses second legal bid to clear her name Deborah Winzar was convicted of the murder of Dominic McCarthy in 2000 Lawyers then claimed fresh evidence undermined prosecution case against her But, in a ruling today, senior judges … Read more
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
‘The era of retreat is over!’ Boris Johnson will announce the biggest cash injection for our armed forces in three decades as he pledges to spend £16.5bn more on defence Prime Minister to promise to spend £16.5billion more on defence over four years Will be spent on ‘space command’ that could launch Britain’s first rocket … Read more
‘Vaccine against trauma death’: Injecting a drug that promotes blood clotting at the scene of the injury could save thousands of accident victims’ lives Tranexamic acid is a drug currently used to stop bleeding in trauma patients At present it is administered via an intravenous line — which is fiddly to set up British and French experts … Read more
A simple injection could stop the loss of muscle and bone during spaceflight for long-term missions to Mars, a new study claims. US scientists sent mice to the International Space Station (ISS), which floats in low Earth orbit at an altitude of 254 miles, to expose them to microgravity. By first inhibiting a signalling pathway in their cells, the microgravity-exposed … Read more