Responding to client demand, more and more dental clinics are adding Botox and fillers to their list of offerings, writes Helen O’Callaghan

Allergan forecasts 2019 revenue below expectations on looming competition for some of its top drugs and has shelved plans to sell its women’s health business.

Susan O’Shea discovers that facial yoga isn’t an anti-ageing miracle — but that it does have its benefits.

Red, white and blue: Get a ghoulish Halloween look with just three colours, says Rachel Marie Walsh.

As the party season revs up this may be an ideal time to take steps to ward off damaging effects our lifestyle can have on your face. Margaret Jennings suggests some resolutions.

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Suzanne Harrington joins the 50 club with Nicole Kidman, Julia Roberts and Pamela Anderson. And no, she has no plans to take up knitting

Increasingly Irish males are investing in cosmetic procedures, with Botox, nose jobs, eye lifts and breast tissue reduction topping the list, says Áilin Quinlan.

Despite a conciliatory meeting over the week end in Mar-a-Lago with Chinese Premier Xi Jinping, US president Donald Trump will still relish an opportunity to chop down on imports from China and any other country with which there is trade imbalances, as he pursues his major campaign promise to tackle the $500bn (€472bn) trade deficit and bring back jobs to US soil.

Botox maker Allergan has announced an additional €42m investment in its Irish operations, that will see it expand existing manufacturing capacity in Dublin and Co Mayo. 

Stocks around the world continued their march higher on Monday, and US indexes again hit new highs.

Sales at the cosmetic skincare clinics operated by ‘Botox Queen’ Leah Totton soared past €1m last year.

Cosmetic needles can help to take years off your looks by stimulating collagen production, claim acupuncturists. Margaret Jennings reports.

Stocks indexes ended little changed on Wall Street as more worries about China pulled down prices for oil.

Looking for a natural alternative to Botox? Doing 20 minutes of face yoga a day can help to firm sagging skin and ease wrinkles, says Margaret Jennings.                        

Ireland’s tax regime may again face the international spotlight, at an uncomfortable time for the country, after two of the world’s pharmaceutical giants yesterday confirmed they are in talks over a mega billion dollar merger that appears to be driven by Irish tax considerations.

Israeli drugmaker Teva Pharmaceuticals has agreed to buy the generic-drug business of Allergan for about $40.5bn (€36.8bn) in cash and stock, ending its hostile bid for rival Mylan.

Whatever your face, hair and scalp needs, there’s a mask for the task.

The biggest loser from a Conservative Party victory in next month’s election might end up being Ireland.

US-based Mylan yesterday offered to buy fellow drugmaker Perrigo whose headquarters are in Dublin for $28.9bn (€26.73bn), a deal that would create a powerhouse for generic medicine.

IF I WERE to say that Finance Minister Michael Noonan is off with his statistics on economic recovery, he would come after me and give me a black eye to match the one he’s sporting.

US investors remained in a record-setting mood, edging the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index to their latest all-time highs.

Actavis plc agreed to pay about $66bn (€53bn) for Allergan, a deal that creates a new top 10 drugmaker and ends Valeant Pharmaceuticals International’s attempt at a hostile takeover of the maker of Botox.

Anxious to keep their jobs, men aged 35 to 50 are using Botox to banish their wrinkles, brow lines and so-called crows’ feet. Others are resorting to surgery to look toned, youthful and less stressed, says Áilín Quinlan.

Katie Price claims she's "natural".

Kate Hudson wouldn't say no to Botox.

You don’t have to be younger, thinner or richer to feel ‘Fabulous’ after 50 it’s about zest for life.

The beauty obsession began with bee venom, dubbed nature’s alternative to Botox.

“Should I get Botox before my wedding?” asks a 29-year-old bride-to-be.

Renée Zellweger had onlookers doing a double take as she arrived looking almost unrecognisable at a screening of a new movie in California.

First round takeover bids for Irish bio-tech firm Elan are not likely to be formally tabled until after the company publishes its half-year results later this month.

Jackie Stallone says plastic surgery has left her looking "like a chipmunk".

TV mogul Simon Cowell has insisted that he “couldn’t care less” if people think that he is gay – and admitted that he hires some women because he fancies them.

Allergan, the maker of anti-wrinkle treatment Botox, saw profits slightly lower in the third quarter.

The Collagen Company’s founder Roz Martin has invented MedColl, a collagen supplement for better skin, healthy joints and a strong immune system.

Shares in Allergan climbed the most in three years after second-quarter earnings beat analyst estimates and the company raised the lower end of its full-year forecast.

AS FRANCE’S first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy styled herself on Jackie Onassis, acted in a Woody Allen film and had a folk-music career.

The Botox capital of the world, Westport is celebrating a ruling by the European Court of Justice which found that L’Oreal had attempted to register trademarks that sound similar to the world-famous wrinkle buster.