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 ...

According to the BBC, the new proposals outlined mean that only qualified health professionals will be allowed to carry out ...

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.

Social media is full of people injecting their own faces to save a few hundred dollars. But doctors warn DIY Botox could have ...

The toxin, dubbed BoNT/En, is the ninth botulinum toxin to be described. Last August, Dr. Dong and his colleagues reported the eighth, BoNT/X, made by C. botulinum and the first new botulinum ...

The botulinum toxins are among the deadliest substances on Earth, and two specific toxins -- including the popular drug Botox -- have multiple uses for treating many neuromuscular conditions ...

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 ...

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.

Botulinum toxin B was licensed by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2001 for treatment of cervical dystonia —a spastic contraction of neck muscles. Like botulinum toxin A, toxin B is an ...

Botulinum toxin was first identified in 1897 from the bacteria Clostridium botulinum, and in 1949 the U.S. federal government started researching it as a biological weapon, but stopped because it ...

And any expert in botulinum toxin knows that its history as a possible bioweapon goes back decades. The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo even tried to release it in downtown Tokyo in the 1990s, but ...