Botulinum toxin, or Botox as it’s widely known, is famous for its ability to smooth away wrinkles. But hiding our frown lines from the world isn’t the reason early scientists started experimenting ...

Philip Crilly does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Xeomin ® (incobotulinumtoxinA) is approved by the U.S. FDA for the treatment of adults with upper limb spasticity and cervical dystonia and to treat blepharospasm in adults who have had prior ...

Alastair Carruthers with his ophthalmologist wife Jean: ‘When my wife came home from work one day and suggested injecting my receptionist with the deadliest chemical known to humanity, my jaw dropped’ ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I have been contending with blepharospasm for years. I got some relief from Botox for around four years, but then it stopped working and my doctor moved me to Dysport, which was ...

FDA today announced the approval of Botulinum Toxin Type A (Botox Cosmetic) to temporarily improve the appearance of moderate to severe frown lines between the eyebrows (glabellar lines), a medical ...

If you hear someone say, “It’s better than Botox,” be skeptical, says Sioux City plastic surgeon Kelly Gallego. “There’s no such thing as ‘better than Botox.’ Right now, this is the gold standard when ...

When a medicine's side effects turn out to be more marketable than its intended purpose, people tend to forget what the intended purposes were. The "little blue pill" never quite became synonymous ...

Taking a dietary supplement of organic zinc and the enzyme phytase four days before receiving botulinum toxin injections made the toxin more effective in 93% of patients tested in a recent study at ...