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In the UK alone, around 900,000 Botox injections are carried out each year.But with the growing popularity of this procedure ...
Two people have died and 14 others have reportedly been hospitalized due to an ongoing botulism outbreak in Italy. Tamara ...
Wrinkle treatments can boost confidence—but if you're not careful, they can land you in the hospital. Here's how to get Botox safely and avoid a rare but serious complication.
Three people have died in Italy after eating seemingly harmless snacks. The cause is not a rare virus or an exotic ...
Social media is full of people injecting their own faces to save a few hundred dollars. But doctors warn DIY Botox could have ...
Botulism outbreaks highlight the need for detection of food contamination at point of use. Printed on the inside of a jar lid ...
Rising demand for minimally invasive procedures, preventive aesthetics, and novel therapeutic uses position botulinum toxins ...
After the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq told U.N. weapons inspectors that it had produced 19,000 liters of concentrated botulinum toxin - enough, theoretically, to kill everyone on earth three times over.
Neurologists identify common foods that can contain dangerous neurotoxins and tapeworms that could harm brain health — and ...
The toxin, dubbed BoNT/En, is the ninth botulinum toxin to be described. (Last August, Dong and colleagues reported the eighth, BoNT/X, made by C. botulinum and the first new botulinum toxin to be ...
Botulinum Toxin Therapeutic Botulinum Toxin Botulinum toxin (BTX) has been used at Baylor’s Parkinson’s Disease Center and Movement Disorders Clinic (PDCMDC) in the treatment of dystonia and related ...
Botulinum toxin (BoNT) is used for a range of applications, but when injected it can diffuse into the surrounding tissue and give rise to adverse effects. A new study shows that a subtle ...