Allergan NYSE: AGN is trying to expand the use of its anti-wrinkle drug, Botox, but the Food and Drug Administration threw a wrinkle into its plan yesterday by turning down Allergan’s application to market Botox for upper limb spasticity — a disorder that causes muscles to tighten. Getting a complete response letter is rarely a [...]
Since becoming a “Gossip Girl,” blonde beauty Blake Lively seems to be turning her fictional role of a New York socialite into reality, which also includes having plastic surgery. 21-year old Blake Lively was nearly falling out of her gown at the Met Costume Gala, leading many, Make Me Heal included, to wonder if the [...]
Marketers offering breast enhancement or reduction solutions that promise results equivalent to surgery is an age old scam. Over 20 years ago the US FDA warned consumers, and especially teens, that breast enlargement alternatives to surgery were frauds. Breast reduction pills like Alexia are “a hoax”, according to George Beraka, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon. [...]
Competition has arrived for Irvine-based Allergan Inc.s blockbuster wrinkle-remover Botox, but Chief Executive David Pyott plans few changes in his marketing of the drug. At the end of April, Allergan got word that it’s going to have its first domestic competitor for Botox Cosmetic when the Food and Drug Administration cleared Dysport for cosmetic and [...]
Even in this tough economy, women of all ages are finding ways to give their bodies a “boost”. The American Society for Plastic Surgeons just released a report showing, breast augmentation is now the number one most-performed cosmetic surgical procedure in the U.S. Last year, more than 307,000 breast augmentations were performed, moving liposuction to [...]
Every four to five months, Sarah Smith and her co-workers give each other a Botox treatment after a long day of work at Nuveen Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery in Edmond. With a quick prick of a needle, wrinkles are erased and smooth skin is visible again. Within minutes, the women are feeling refreshed and young. [...]
Breast reduction surgery has become a popular choice for both men and women – with the procedures called gynecomastia and mammoplasty respectively. Breast reduction figures for 2008 for men and women constituted 3,845 – a rise of 13 per cent on the previous year. In total, these figures reveal an increase of 44 per cent [...]
NEW YORK — Allergan Inc., which reported a 64% slump in first-quarter profit Friday, said it will work with the Food and Drug Administration to appropriately update labeling for its Botox and Botox cosmetic products. “We are pleased that the FDA has emphasized that the dosing units are different between the products,” Chairman and Chief [...]
The Food and Drug Adminstration said Thursday that it is requiring makers of Botox and rival products to display tougher warnings on their labels advising the products may trigger certain dangerous side effects. The boxed warning is the strongest the FDA can impose on a prescription drug without asking it be withdrawn from the market. [...]
Allergan Inc., maker of the wrinkle-smoother Botox, reported Friday that its first-quarter profit fell 58% as the recession slowed sales of eye and beauty products. Net income dropped to $45 million, or 15 cents a share, from $108 million, or 35 cents, a year earlier, the Irvine company said. Profit excluding some items was 55 [...]