People die when the toxin paralyzes the muscles they need to breathe. That is the deadly side of botulinum toxins and botulism disease, whose incidence has ebbed with the advent of safer food storage ...

Injections of botulinum toxin, commonly known as Botox, could be an effective and well-tolerated option for treating debilitating complications caused by reduced blood flow to the fingers, such as ...

Good old botulism. An anaerobic bacteria, Clostridium botulinum, that lives all over but flourishes in low-oxygen environments (such as improperly canned foods) and produces seven different types of ...

And if safety rules are ignored in the pursuit of youth, an ordinary visit to a cosmetologist can end with a hospital bed and a diagnosis you would least expect to hear. Let’s talk about iatrogenic ...

Seven months after an outbreak of botulism linked to ByHeart infant formula, investigations are still ongoing into how the deadly contamination could possibly have made it into the product. And a new ...