Pain-free injections
Pain-free injections
A new cream which kills the pain of injections is to go on sale internationally. Dr Dermot McCafferty and Professor David Woolfson of Queen's University, Belfast, claim Ametop gel, which they first used on young cancer patients, is a safe, effective and rapid anaesthetic on healthy skin. It will be manufactured by Smith and Nephew.
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