Undercover officers raided the home of a Mansfield woman who they say was selling do-it-yourself wrinkle treatments.Police confiscated boxes, computers and more at the home of Laurie D’Alleva and charged the Tarrant County woman with illegally offering prescription drugs — including botulinum toxin Botox injections — without a license. Read full story via Health News.
Vain Brits are putting their lives at risk by buying DIY Botox kits online and injecting themselves with the drug at home.Experts say users are also in danger of paralysis and even blindness – as the muscle-freezing toxin can stop eyeballs moving. Read full story via The Sun News.
A serious contender to Botox – the celebrities’ favourite frown-freezer – has been launched in the UK. Azzalure was previously marketed under the brand name Dysport, but licensed only to treat medical conditions such as cerebral palsy, facial tics and strokes – but it can now be used for cosmetic use. Read full story via [...]
Another story that illustrates the perils of seeking cheap BOTOX or other cosmetic suregery treatments from non-professionals. This article in the seattlepi.com tells the story of a woman who was injected with a substance sold as BOTOX by a Bellevue salon owner. It resulted in brown spots that needed to be treated by a plastic [...]
Wired magazine ran an article on the following website that offers BOTOX without a prescription and a how to video on do it yourself BOTOX injections. This is a very disturbing idea. Not only do you not know whether the product you are injecting into your face is authentic, but to think you could be [...]
EL PASO — Concerns about the economy might cause people to develop more furrowed brows and deeper worry lines, but the shaky times also have many searching for inexpensive ways to iron out those wrinkles. Dr. Herbert Nassour said the area and the nation have seen a surge in patients interested in getting Botox cosmetic [...]
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A federal lawsuit filed in California by Las Vegas physician Ivan Goldsmith argues that sales representatives for Allergan Inc., maker of the popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox, promote multipatient use of its 50-unit or 100-unit single-use vials. Goldsmith’s lawsuit alleges that doctors can only make a profit using Botox if they reuse the single-use vials that [...]
Bunny lines are the subtle crinkly wrinkles on both sides of the nose that often appear as a direct result of Botox-related paralysis, and they get their name from the cute way bunnies scrunch up their noses. “The most common cause of bunny lines is repeated use of Botox to the glabella, the area between [...]
In an attack on the regulation of drug marketing, the makers of the antiwrinkle shot Botox have filed a free-speech lawsuit against the federal government. In the complaint, filed Thursday in federal court in Washington, the specialty pharmaceutical company Allergan charged that restrictions on promoting unapproved uses of Botox for medical conditions like spasticity violate [...]
This is a great news item to use in discusiions with patients and friends. The trend of scale injectable cosmetics down to the salon level has had a tremendous impact on the cosmetic surgery industry. This article illustrates the dangers consumers face when they seek these services and procedures outside the realm of a medical [...]