Husband-and-wife doctors were sent to prison Thursday for selling a dangerous bootleg form of Botox to hundreds of physicians...Technorati Tags: Botox
On Wednesday, a Fort Lauderdale physician, Dr. Bach McComb, was sentenced to three years behind bars for injecting himself and three others with knockoff Botox that had not been properly diluted, causing botulism and nearly killing all four of them.
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Friday, January 27, 2006
Husband-And-Wife 'Botox' Docs Get Prison
Via Salon: