No-needle ‘Botox’ is a few years away

Revance Therapeutics says clinical trials of its no-needle Botox-like lotion will be done in about two years.

Then the FDA will decide whether to approve the drug, which is used to minimize crow’s feet, WCBS-TV reports.

“The results are good, but they probably won’t be as dramatic as [Botox] injections,” dermatologist Dr. Fredric Brandt of Miami said.
Patients tended to see a moderate reduction in wrinkles around their eyes after using RT001 — for example, a change from severe to moderate crow’s feet a month after treatment.

Dr. Richard Glogau, clinical professor of dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco, who is a primary investigator for the study, said after early trials that the Mountain View, Calif.-based company needed to rework the formulation so the drug would stay where it was applied and not spread to other parts of the body.

Source: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/needle-258754-botox-years.html