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Botulism is a rare and sometimes serious illness that can cause symptoms ranging from fatigue, headaches and dizziness to ...
What is botulism? The serious illness linked to unlicensed injections in the UK - Around 900,000 Botox injections are carried ...
Rising demand for minimally invasive procedures, preventive aesthetics, and novel therapeutic uses position botulinum toxins ...
Social media is full of people injecting their own faces to save a few hundred dollars. But doctors warn DIY Botox could have ...
Three people have died in Italy after eating seemingly harmless snacks. The cause is not a rare virus or an exotic ...
Botulism outbreaks highlight the need for detection of food contamination at point of use. Printed on the inside of a jar lid ...
Tamara D'Acunto and Luigi Di Santo, 52, died after consuming the food in the town of Diamante in Italy, according to local ...
Wrinkle treatments can boost confidence—but if you're not careful, they can land you in the hospital. Here's how to get Botox ...
Two people have now died after reportedly eating contaminated broccoli and sausage sandwiches. Tamara D’Acunto, 45, has been ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...