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Botilinum can travel along nerves and degrade proteins in the brain stem. Researchers have seen how the nerve-blocking botilinum toxin, made famous by wrinkle-banishing Botox, can be carried from a site of injection in rats into the brain. Once there, the toxin can degrade proteins and act on nerves. This previously unknown ability of botilinum to affect the brain “is certainly of concern”, says Matteo Caleo of the Italian National Research Council’s Institute of Neuroscience in Pisa, who reports the work. Thus far, the study has been done only in rodents, which had no noticable behavioural reaction to the migration...

With frizzy red hair, milky white skin and a dusting of freckles, Nicole Kidman was never considered a conventional Hollywood beauty. But she is now. And as well as a smooth golden hairstyle and perfect skin she has a freeze-frame face, free of even the faintest expression lines. Not that cosmetic surgeons are lining up to take the credit. One claimed her unfortunate "bat face" look was putting other women off cosmetic treatments. The 40-year-old Academy Award winner is so "over-Botoxed" she is giving the industry a bad name, Dr Martin Braun told a conference of medical experts. Miss Kidman...

Feb. 8, 2008 -- The FDA today announced that it's investigating rare reports of serious adverse events linked with Botox, Botox Cosmetic, and Myobloc. The most serious cases, in which patients died or were hospitalized, occurred in children with cerebral palsy who got botulinum toxin for severe arm and leg muscle spasms associated with their cerebral palsy. That's an unapproved use of the drugs.No adult deaths have been linked to the drugs, but some adults have been hospitalized, including at least one person who used Botox for cosmetic uses. It's not clear if that case was due to Botox use. Adults'...

The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor Myobloc have been linked to some deaths and other severe side effects suggestive of botulism, the government warned doctors Friday. The drugs use botulinum toxin, which blocks nerve impulses to muscles, causing them to relax. But in rare cases, the toxin may have spread beyond the injection site to other parts of the body, resulting in such problems as paralysis of respiratory muscles and difficulty swallowing, the Food and Drug Administration said. The FDA said the deaths were all among child patients, mostly those with cerebral palsy treated for limb spasms, a...

Does Hillary do botox?. ..... . Did that yellow jacket with the black detail that she wore in South Carolina suit her? Yes, with a woman in the running for the White House, the claws are out and looks and fashion are prime topics of conversation - not just for the usual observers of frocks and 'tox, but also for television presenters and erudite analysts. A photo showing all the wrinkles on an exhausted Hillary Clinton, 60, and a video in which she loses her voice have been the subjects of long, studied commentaries in the media. The unflattering images...

Botox and a similar injected drug have been associated with 16 deaths, four of them in children, and scores of serious injuries that occurred after the drug spread to vital organs, a health advocacy group says. The drug, a neurotoxin that is used to relax muscles, should come with a far stronger warning label and patients should be given a letter detailing its risks, the group, Public Citizen, said in a petition filed Thursday with the Food and Drug Administration.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today defended the Architect of the Capitol's refusal to permit use of the word "God" on official certificates enclosed with flags flown over the U.S. Capitol. Dayton-area GOP Rep. Michael Turner and more than 100 of his Republican colleagues sent a letter to Pelosi last week after an Eagle Scout in his district asked that a flag flown over the U.S. Capitol be sent to his grandfather with a certificate inscribed with the message: "In honor of my grandfather Marcel Larochelle, and his dedication and love of God, country, and family." The boy and his father...

Has anyone seen or heard Barbara Boxer whining recently? Her absence was discussed last weekend at two social functions.

Doesn't Hillary look great these days? Fresh-faced, beaming, nary a frown line. No evidence of her famously pursed lips. And those scowl lines, earned by a lifetime of looking down on others with barely concealed contempt, have vanished. Magic. She almost looks normal. While no one (with the exception of, say, Eleanor Clift) would ever call her a 'babe,' Hillary's visage no longer brings forth an involuntary flinch. This 'transformation' was immediately apparent at the recent Democrat debate. Hill's camp vehemently denies any 'artifice.'

couldn't possibly mask who she really is!

Hillary Clinton's enemies have long criticised her political -makeover, from the liberal firebrand First Lady to the moderate senator and White House candidate that she is today. Now, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination is the subject of a whispering campaign suggesting that she has also undergone a physical makeover - with Botox injections to enhance her appearance. Before and after? Hillary Clinton in 2006 and at last week's debate Sen Clinton's fresh-faced demeanour at last weekend's New Hampshire presidential debate has unleashed a flurry of speculation, among newspaper columnists and on the internet, that she has used artificial...

So I’m in New Hampshire for the Democrats’ debate Sunday, watching on two huge screens. The instant Hillary appears, the woman behind me whispers, “Oh look at Hillary. She’s had work done!” I put the question to WBZ’s political guru Jon Keller: Notice anything about Hillary? “Botox,” he replied, not missing a beat. “But it’s time for Botox to win one.” He was referring to John Kerry and Botox. And elaborate dental work. And chin reduction. Google our senator, before and after. Hillary’s new glow was all the talk on “The View.” This was when we needed Rosie O’Donnell to...

Five years ago, Sharon Schafer Bennett suffered from migraines so severe that the headaches disrupted her life, kept her from seeking a job and interfered with participation in her children's daily activities. Now, thanks to an innovative surgical technique performed by a UT Southwestern Medical Center plastic surgeon who helped pioneer the procedure, the frequency and intensity of Mrs. Bennett's migraines have diminished dramatically -- from two to three per week to an occasional one every few months. The technique -- performed by a handful of plastic surgeons in the U.S. -- includes using the anti-wrinkle drug Botox to pinpoint...

Botox isn't just for helping get rid of wrinkles. There is a new use for it. Dr. Jay Adlersberg has more. If Botox can paralyze the muscles that cause wrinkles, how about using it for tight muscles in other places? That's what some doctors are doing to help patients with cerebral palsy and strokes. Botox is helping children and adults alike. Nine-year-old Andrew Carter is not afraid to fall. And he refuses to let cerebral palsy get the best of him. When Andrew would try to move, his muscles would fight him, jerking him around. It's a condition called spasticity....

Chalk up another novel use for Botox. The toxin best known for erasing wrinkles may also help ease the pain of writer's cramp. A small, new study shows injections of Botox improved symptoms of writer's cramp in 70% of those who received the treatment. Writer's cramp is a painful condition that affects about three to seven out of every 100,000 people. Symptoms include involuntary, spasmodic muscle contractions of the fingers, hand, or arm during writing or other manual tasks. People with writer's cramp may simply learn to write with the other hand, but in one in four cases, the condition...

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 02, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on Speaker’s Comments Regarding Foley Matter Washington, D.C. –House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement on Speaker Hastert's press conference on the Republican cover up of the inappropriate e-mails Mark Foley sent to an underage former House Page: “Speaker Hastert again failed to answer the question that every mother and father in America is asking: how could Republican Leaders choose partisan politics over protecting children? “Republican Leaders admitted to knowing about Mr. Foley’s abhorrent behavior for six months to a year and failed to protect...

You beauty! City pioneers use Botox to fix bladder problems JENNIFER VEITCH PIONEERING surgeons are using the beauty treatment Botox to cure bladder problems in multiple sclerosis sufferers. Until now the procedure, which involves injecting botulinum toxin, has been used to reduce lines and wrinkles. However, at Edinburgh's Western General Hospital, it has dramatically reduced incontinence among MS patients, and it could now be trialed on other people who suffer from bladder complaints. Doctors have been injecting tiny quantities of Dysport, a brand of botulinum toxin, directly into the bladder wall. The procedure has cured the bladder problems in 90...

Fear over the 'lunchtime facelift' as experts say Botox is addictive By Beezy Marsh, Health Correspondent (Filed: 17/09/2006) Botox has been dubbed the "lunchtime facelift", loved by women – and a growing number of men – for its miraculous ability to erase wrinkles and restore youthful good looks. But the concern is that once you start keeping the unwanted effects of ageing at bay, you will not be able to stop, according to research to be presented at a conference this week. Botox is the No1 non-surgical cosmetic treatment The first study of its kind, carried out by a...

There are growing concerns about the health and appearance of John Kerry, one of the Democratic Party’s premier politruks and the former Presidential standard bearer. It was recently reported on Free Republic by `pabianice' that "he looked terrible" in a recent appearance on Fox News, with fears that he was "suffering from some illness that has been kept secret."

Dear Friend, Elections cannot be won in June, but they can be lost. Karl Rove knows this -- that is why he, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have already traveled to Florida and raised $800,000 to help Republican Clay Shaw save his seat. This is one race that will be critical to our win in November. Republican Clay Shaw, in Florida's 22nd district, is facing the stiffest challenge of his 26-year career from a rising Democratic star, Ron Klein. And the Republican establishment is doing everything they can to stop Ron from winning. Ron, like the DCCC, is facing...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN's Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday. Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said.</p>

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Islamic authorities in Malaysia are debating whether bacteria used in Botox injections for cosmetic reasons are "unclean" by Koran standards. The National Fatwa Council on Monday declared "black metal" music was unacceptable for Muslims, saying it could cause listeners to rebel against religion, and then turned its attention to Botox, Sky News reported. Plastic surgery is prohibited by Malaysian Muslims for cosmetic reasons, but Botox is also used for treating disorders such as cerebral palsy. Botox is derived from a type of bacteria that causes food poisoning. In tiny doses, its paralytic qualities...

Plastic surgeon Frederic Corbin was intrigued last year when he saw an ad for a product that offered the same protein used in the wildly popular wrinkle treatment Botox — only much, much, cheaper. "My initial reaction was, 'Hmm, Botox now has some competition,'" recalled Corbin, who practices in Beverly Hills, Calif. But when he received a vial of the botulinum toxin in the mail, he was puzzled by the warning: "For Research Purposes Only. Not for Human Use." He says he returned it and more or less forgot about it until he heard about four people last December whose...

Washington -- Fourteen years ago, Professor Anita Hill's explosive charges of sexual harassment during the Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas helped produce the election a year later of California's two senators in "The Year of the Woman." Next month, Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein will play starring roles in another contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearing for the nominee of another President Bush, where women's issues again promise to eclipse all others. Although their views on the core issue of preserving abortion rights are identical, their styles and strategies are wildly different. Judging from their...

Susan Estrich has apparently? sobered up after the election and was seen on FoxNews blathering about the latest SCOTUS appointment and the Rove Fabricated Non-story. Her take is it's Edith and the Rove issue is just summer political fun...oh yeah, here's some pics, some things just never change... Where am I?Law Offices of "Lick, Spittle and Drool"Wide Mouth Frog...

How come everyone is so bent out of shape about Jim Kilts of Gillette absconding with $162 million he basically didn't earn, after a mere 18 months or so at the helm of another expiring Boston-based corporation? Granted, Kilts is a greed-crazed corporado, but it's not like he's the only guy living off big bucks that he had nothing to do with accumulating. How about the two United States senators from Massachusetts, passing yet another pleasant Cape summer with the Beautiful People? Here are the numbers on just their vacation residences: Sen. John F. Kerry's mansion at 5 Hulbert Ave....

Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) (R) watches Senator John Kerry (D-MA) as he gestures during a joint news conference on protecting the U.S. from terrorism, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 12, 2005. Senate Democrats on Monday opened a debate on domestic security spending by blasting Republicans for leaving America vulnerable to London-style attacks with their focus on terrorism overseas. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas

MADISON, Wis. - Ed Schantz, a researcher who was a pioneer in purifying the toxin used in Botox injections, has died. He was 96. Schantz died Thursday, said Joe Donovan, a spokesman for Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction Elizabeth Burmaster, one of Schantz's four daughters. In 1946, Schantz and colleagues purified botulinum toxin type A — the poison that causes an often fatal form of muscle paralysis called botulism — in a crystalline form, allowing researchers to study it in greater detail, according to the Botox Web site of Allergan Inc., which acquired rights to distribute the toxin in 1988....

On "Meet the Press" last Sunday, John Kerry admitted he had not been in Cambodia on Christmas in 1968, even though he said on the Senate floor that the memory had been "seared – seared in me." What Kerry told Tim Russert last Sunday was that he had been in Cambodia, but it was a different day, that he had "jumbled the two together, but we were five miles into Cambodia." Then he brought up his famous "CIA guy," insisting that he and his crew were five miles into Cambodia on a secret mission "with CIA agents – I believe...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Brian Jones 202-863-8614“President Bush’s State of the Union presented a positive agenda for keeping America safe and preserving Social Security, but the Democrats have defined themselves as the party of ‘no’ in responding with obstruction and pessimism. President Bush realizes the challenges facing our country require bipartisan solutions, not political attacks.”-Brian Jones, RNC Communications Director  Meet The Party Of “No”“[A]s The President Spoke In The House Chamber, Several Democrats Hissed And Rumbled ‘No, No, No’ During Some Of His Assertions About Social Security.” (Charles Babington and Mike Allen, “Bush’s Address Wins Over Few, If Any, Democrats,”...

My God Man! My Botox wore off! My Cheeks can touch my ears!!

It was pretty obvious that Kerry got Boxer to do his dirty work for him when questioning Condi. It wouldn't have looked too good for the MA Senator if HE had taken on Condi himself.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement on the Bush Administration's new land management planning regulations for national forests, which were announced this afternoon: "The regulations released by the Bush Administration today are an insult to every American who cares about our national forests. By greatly weakening critical protections, the regulations will increase the exploitation of our natural resources by private companies without ensuring the survival of the forests for future generations. "The Administration's draft rule, issued two years ago, was roundly and rightly criticized as a giveaway to corporate timber, mining, and oil interests. Apparently, the Bush...

Dec 19, 2004 Botox Leave You Stiff? Facial Acupuncture Gaining Ground By Michael Hill Associated Press Writer ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Paula Scardamalia has pins in her face - nine tiny ones angling out near her eyes, mouth and jaw. The pins were poked in to tighten chin skin and erase lines on the 52-year-old woman's face. The practice, called facial acupuncture, is becoming popular as a sort of holistic alternative to trying to turn back time through toxins or surgery. "This has got to be healthier than Botox or a surgical facelift," said Scardamalia, the little needles wagging slightly....

HE WAS a brilliant and handsome doctor from New Jersey who had won a coveted fellowship and once been an Episcopalian altar boy and high-school football star. But Bach McComb, 47, is now paralysed and suffering from pneumonia after becoming the unlikely victim of one of the worst cosmetic surgery disasters in recent memory. The Florida doctor injected himself, along with his girlfriend and two patients, with a huge quantity of cheap, imitation Botox, the anti-wrinkle treatment, which turned out to be raw botulinum toxin, the same lethal bacterium used in biological weapons. The other victims of the black-market Botox...

Maybe it's ironic justice — a doctor suspected of giving patients poisonous Botox shots lies in a New Jersey hospital, gravely sickened by one of his own treatments. Dr. Bach McComb, 47, was in the critical-care unit of the Bayonne Medical Center yesterday. At the time he gave himself and three others the alleged bad Botox injections, McComb's medical license was suspended amid charges he had illegally dispensed painkillers from a medical clinic in Sarasota, Fla. [snip] Two other alleged McComb patients, a couple in their 50s, remain in a Florida hospital. McComb, an osteopath, and the three remained...

WEST PALM BEACH - Health officials are investigating whether two patients being treated for botulism contracted the illness after receiving Botox injections. The unidentified couple in their 50s were both in critical condition Sunday night, breathing through ventilators and receiving intravenous feeding, said Charles Schallop, a neurologist treating them at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center. Hospital officials did not immediately return a call Monday to update their condition.

Thu Oct 28,10:15 AM ET Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (news - web sites) wears a Boston Red Sox baseball cap while speaking at a campaign rally at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio October 28, 2004. The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series (news - web sites) the previous night. REUTERS/Brian Snyder US ELECTION

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Matt Morris vs. Curt Schilling. Red Sox lead the series 1-0 (and yes I am series).

The Puppet Running for President October 22, 2004 - With any luck, this will be the last article I have to write about John Kerry, ever. Hopefully, in two weeks he will be resuming his role as an unsuccessful do-nothing liberal Massachusetts Senator with a nutcase for a wife and a face that only a Botox-technician could love - and in Mass., your tenth injection is always free. While a Kerry Presidency could have its potential editorial-writing upside ("I signed the bill before I vetoed it, no wait"), it surely isn't something to otherwise look forward to. Personally, I'll take...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass., holds up a Yale hockey jersey thrown to him from the crowd during a campaign event at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

XENIA, Ohio — Sen. John hunted for votes yesterday in the nook and crannies of the Buckeye State, telling crowds in farm country and jobstrapped southern Ohio that President Bush is deceiving them about the economy and the Iraq war. Joking that he will be in Ohio so often before Nov. 2 that "I’m about to have my mail forwarded here," Kerry beseeched voters to believe their eyes, and not Bush, when assessing whether they are better off now than four years ago. "George Bush has a very simple strategy when it comes to reality: Ignore it, deny it and...

Sat Oct 16, 6:34 PM ET Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites), D-Mass.,visits the Village Grocery in Buchanan, Ohio, Saturday, October 16, 2004. He was there to buy a hunting license. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

What the hell happened to Kerry's face?

Best and Worst of the Debate Best Kerry Line of the Debate: "From the looks of the people in this audience, the only ones in this room who will be affected by the president's tax cut for the rich will be myself, the president, and Charles Gibson." Kerry's inner snob made an appearance last night at the debate. How could he tell the annual income of the audience? I guess no one was wearing Prada. One must have a trained eye for spotting designer clothes. Maybe there were no five hundred dollar haircuts like the one Kerry sports. There might...

I did a search but didn't see this posted. I also googled the topic. During the debates, Edwards seemed like his face has had some work. His cheeks are very smooth, his forehead a little bit, too, but didn't seem Botoxed.

Please explain to me what this guy's had done to himself. Hired people to work their magic on his face and hair. The freeper women have a better idea of the trickery involved. I've never seen a candidate taking so many beauty treatments. Up above shows a face peel, collagen injections in cheeks, botox and darker hair coloring? How come this clown doesn't get outed for the vain metrosexual he is really is? Only one man in four would vote for him if this happened. Please post any "makeover" photos. Before and after etc.