Medicines and prescribing
What a prescription-only medicine is, who may prescribe one, and why the prescriber should have met you.
Prescription only medicines in aesthetics, and what that means for you
Botulinum toxin products are prescription only medicines. That single fact governs who may supply them, who may advertise them, and who has to have assessed you.
Remote prescribing of injectables, and why regulators object
A prescriber who has never seen you writing a prescription for a medicine someone else will inject is the structural failure at the centre of this sector.
Who can legally prescribe botulinum toxin in the UK
Prescribing rights belong to defined groups and the qualification is recorded publicly. Administering is a separate question with a much wider answer.
Why dermal fillers are not regulated as medicines
The product that is hardest to reverse sits in the lighter regulatory regime. Understanding why explains most of what is strange about this market.
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