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Botulism is a rare and sometimes serious illness that can cause symptoms ranging from fatigue, headaches and dizziness to ...
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 ...
Two people have died and 14 others have reportedly been hospitalized due to an ongoing botulism outbreak in Italy. Tamara ...
What is botulism? The serious illness linked to unlicensed injections in the UK - Around 900,000 Botox injections are carried ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...