This question occurred to Eric Finzi, when he was painting portraits from pictures of French women who were institutionalized in the 19th Century. He wondered if they'd be cured if their faces couldn't register their depressed emotions. Finzi used Botox to test this hypothesis in 2003 and 2006, to astonishing results. » 7/03/14 1:00pm 7/03/14 1:00pm

There are a lot of different things you can do in a garage: you can keep stuff in it; if you are a dissatisfied and unkempt youth, you can do some angry band-related stuff in there; you can trick renters into thinking it's an apartment that you happen to occasionally drive cars into... Or, if you are like this… » 4/17/14 4:40pm 4/17/14 4:40pm

In accordance with her 50th birthday on Friday, Michelle Obama spoke with People magazine about her workout routine, eating right and those pesky things that crop up on your face as you age that we call wrinkles but cosmetic companies call lines. » 1/15/14 10:50am 1/15/14 10:50am

Not too long ago, a local chamber of commerce in New Jersey held a networking event. The mixer was purely business-focused, all meeting and greeting and wheeling and dealing. Business cards were swapped, email addresses were exchanged. But one guy was looking to make a different kind of deal. » 8/07/13 3:00pm 8/07/13 3:00pm

Botox has been on its quest to eradicate all signs of age from every rich person's face on the planet for about six years now. On the way, it's made a ton of A-list friends and frenemies — people love the stuff, even though it's made out of purified botulinum toxin and is widely known for its tendency to keep those… » 5/06/13 6:40pm 5/06/13 6:40pm

Uh-oh: The FDA has just made public a letter it sent to more than 350 medical practices last month, informing them that they may have received some bum Botox. » 12/24/12 3:20pm 12/24/12 3:20pm

New research suggests that Botox isn't just good for paralyzing the facial muscles that allow humans to communicate unspeakable emotions and bridge the fathomless chasms that exist between ultimately forsaken individuals bound together in the loose and unsatisfying confederacy we call "society" — it may help patients… » 10/02/12 9:30am 10/02/12 9:30am

Remember how youthful and exuberant Gordon Gekko seemed in Wall Street when he was trying to siphon large piles of money from hard-working American hero Carl Fox? All that evil money necromancy can't be good for one's worry lines, which is why it's so surprising that Gekko didn't look like the haggard, woebegone, Wall… » 8/08/12 11:55pm 8/08/12 11:55pm

Young women are injecting themselves with Botox before their baby fat is fully gone. And It's not just celebrities that feel pressure to preemptively prepare for wrinkles, ABC reports: Botox usage is up 10 percent among 20 to 29-year-olds in the past year. Thermage — a "hot radio frequency treatment" (what??) that is… » 3/13/12 1:40pm 3/13/12 1:40pm

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A new study says Botox may make people see you as less attractive — and not just because it can create new wrinkles in odd places. University of Toronto researchers asked people how they view women who use various anti-aging techniques, including skin creams, facelifts, and injectables. They found that compared to… » 8/30/11 10:20am 8/30/11 10:20am

Profits for Botox manufacturer Allergan were up 16% percent in the last quarter, thanks in part to sales of the muscle-paralyzing injectionable. But the company isn't content to simply eliminate wrinkles (or rather, create wrinkles in strange new locations). Allergan is hoping that later this year, Botox will be… » 8/04/11 11:10am 8/04/11 11:10am

Scientists have developed a method of testing Botox on cells in a petri dish rather than live animals. And this could be part of a larger move away from animal testing. » 7/18/11 5:10pm 7/18/11 5:10pm

Australian scientists are testing an unusual treatment for especially severe asthma: a shot of Botox right to the throat. » 6/28/11 9:50am 6/28/11 9:50am

Good news: Sheena Upton is taking parenting classes. » 6/23/11 6:40pm 6/23/11 6:40pm

Because Botox was getting super tired, now there's Dysport — the "botulinum toxin product that outperformed Botox in a head-to-head trial against facial wrinkles." Needles in competition! Thrilling. » 6/21/11 5:17pm 6/21/11 5:17pm

More details emerge from the "Botox Mom" story this morning, if only because Good Morning America doesn't want to admit they'd been duped. Now, ABC is refusing to pay the British agency they bought the story from, and followed up with their sources who suggest this unsettling story absolutely is real. » 5/20/11 12:20pm 5/20/11 12:20pm