Long-term healing of chronic anal fissures is achieved in approximately half of patients who receive botulinum toxin.

Merz Aesthetics, the world's largest dedicated medical aesthetics business, celebrates 15 years since its flagship brand XEOMIN(R) was first approved for aesthetic use by the U.S. Food and Drug ...

February 10, 2026) - Frost & Sullivan has conducted comprehensive research on the medical aesthetic injection products industry and published the "2025 Blue Book on the Industry Development Status and ...

Two research groups have designed chimeric fusion proteins that constitute a new “trojan horse” approach to neutralize lethal botulinum toxins. Botulinum neurotoxins (BoNTs)—a family of bacterial ...

A new study has highlighted the increase in practitioners administering botulinum toxin in the recent years. This increase highlights the growing concern surrounding unregulated cosmetic practice in ...

The number of unqualified cosmetic cowboys offering to carry out botox procedures for cash has risen four-fold in the last ...

Although the potent neurotoxins secreted by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum can cause paralysis and death, doctors sometimes inject tiny doses of the toxins under the skin. They do so to treat ...

Purpose: Efficacy and safety data regarding the unlabeled uses of botulinum toxins are reviewed, and the pharmacology, adverse effects, and characteristics of commercially available botulinum toxins ...

Any of the muscles in the periorbital and facial regions may be targeted with botulinum toxin injection (see Fig. 1 for an anatomic depiction of these muscles). As the toxin acts on the neuromuscular ...

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, including ...

To evaluate the feasibility and safety of a revised technique of botulinum toxin type A (BTA) injections for the treatment of infantile esotropia. Forty-seven patients with infantile esotropia were ...

A toxin much like the one that causes botulism has unexpectedly turned up in a completely different type of bacteria - Enterococcus. Where it came from is unclear, but the finding is concerning ...