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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 ...

Botox is known for fixing wrinkles, but for a local woman, it ensures her eyesight. Annie Giacalone, of Wilmington, has essential blepharospasm, a long name for the movement disorder that causes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Botox is a form of toxin produced by the bacteria Clostridium botulinum. The botulinum toxin in food or wounds blocks the signal transmission between nerves and muscles resulting in botulism, or ...

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