A food truck in southern Italy recently became the centre of a deadly health scare. A food-borne outbreak linked to preserved vegetables killed two people and sent more than a dozen to hospital. At ...

That is the deadly side of botulinum toxins and botulism disease, whose incidence has ebbed with the advent of safer food storage and processing. But one of the seven major botulinum toxin types, ...

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 ...

Health experts now suspect 41 cases of botulism in England this summer were related to unlicensed botox-like procedures.

Snapchill LLC, a Wisconsin-based company, is voluntarily recalling the canned coffee after learning their manufacturing process could lead to the potentially deadly food poisoning. The recall alert ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO — The potential adverse effects of botulinum toxin and fillers aren’t just clinical, a dermatologist warned colleagues. Physicians are at risk of legal consequences if they aren’t careful ...

Snapchill is recalling all of its cold cans of coffee sold by roasters nationwide because of concerns they could contain a potentially deadly toxin. The products were manufactured in a way that "could ...

In an era of grocery stores and home refrigerators, it is easy to lose sight of the fact that, for most of history, people have been bound by the seasonality of food. This reality has long presented ...