Botox copy firm under suspicion
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US federal prosecutors and Food and Drug Administration officials are investigating a firm that allegedly sold an unapproved copy of the anti-wrinkle drug Botox which paralysed four people.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A Bay Area company is being sued by a family of a Florida couple paralyzed after receiving what they thought were traditional botox injections.
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Two of those people are in critical condition and on life support in Palm Beach, Florida. All four people reportedly received their botox shots at a clinic in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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TO millions of Americans, Botox is a magic bullet. A few pinpricks and in a day the face is returned to an approximation of its teenage self, unlined and uninjured by the relentless insult of adult life.
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Federal documents show that four people who remain paralyzed with botulism were injected with shots that contained a large dose of a raw, unapproved toxin that their anti-wrinkling
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MIAMI - A shared quest for external beauty took a macabre twist when a financially squeezed doctor who lost his medical license injected himself, his girlfriend and another couple with the paralyzing botulism toxin instead of the low-dose derivative Botox
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A South Florida couple is suing after being injected about six times each with an unapproved toxin that was more than 200 times stronger than the Botox injections that have become an common anti-wrinkle treatment.
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U.S. regulators are reviewing the safety of Botox, best known for its cosmetic use, and a competitor amid reports that at least one child died following treatment for serious medical conditions, health officials said on Friday.
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Are drug companies using deceptive marketing? Connecticut is investigating.
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Dec. 8, 2004 - Four people remain paralyzed after apparently receiving injections of an unapproved botulism toxin marketed as a less-expensive version of Botox.
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Doctors warn about the dangers of using the potentially fatal toxin botox in cosmetic facial treatments.
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Federal records show an off-brand version of deadly toxin is shipped to the Broward clinic. A month and a half before four patients succumbed to an apparent botulism poisoning, a Broward County clinic received
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CHICAGO -- Four people are on life support suspected of having botulism. All are said to have received Botox injections for cosmetic purposes at the Advanced Integrated Medical Center in Oakland Park Florida the week before.
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Investigators are looking at an unapproved wrinkle treatment as the culprit that hospitalized four people with suspected botulism poisoning after they received injections at an Oakland Park
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Besides cheap food, an Austrian discount grocery chain is offering bargain Botox treatments in an advertisement this week, sparking an outcry from critics who charge the campaign is unethical.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Health officials are asking hospitals across South Florida to watch for cases of botulism after four people fell gravely ill after they thought they received botox injections at a Fort Lauderdale clinic.
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A Florida clinic offering low-cost Botox injections to remove wrinkles has been sealed off by US Federal agents from the Food and Drug Administration&#39;s Office of Criminal Investigations after four people were left paralyzed by botulism.