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Island Abbey Foods Ltd™ Now Offering New Honibe® Honey Lozenges™ Flavour Variations for Both Adults and Children

Charlottetown, PE, Canada (PRWEB) February 01, 2013 Island Abbey Foods Ltd.™, a PEI based natural health product and specialty food producer, has announced today that their Honibe® Honey...

European Commission approves new pre-treatment options for QUTENZA™ (8% capsaicin patch) in peripheral neuropathic pain

The European Commission (EC) has approved expanded options for pre-treatment prior to use of QUTENZA (8% capsaicin patch). Before application the patient may now take an oral analgesic, or the treatme...

Pre-treatments for peripheral neuropathic pain patch receive European Commision approval

The European Commission (EC) has approved expanded options for pre-treatment prior to use of QUTENZA (8% capsaicin patch). Before application the patient may now take an oral analgesic, or the treatme...

Is Capsaicin the Future of Weight Loss?

A new study claims that vagal de-afferentation using capsaicin can achieve weight loss, and reduce the risk of obesity-related...

Natural Health Sherpa Investigates the Health Benefits of Capsaicin

There are countless articles online about the purported benefits of cayenne and capsaicin. Natural Health Sherpa investigated and went through scientific studies and published what they found. Wilming...

Loblaw to sell Island Abbey honey lozenges in Canada

Loblaw Companies, a provider of drugstore services, has entered into a partnership agreement to launch Island Abbey Foods' Honibe honey lozenges in its stores across Canada.

Perrigo gets FDA OK to sell nicotine lozenges

Perrigo Co., which makes store-brand over-the-counter drugs and infant formulas, said Wednesday that it received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market an over-the-counter nico...

Tobacco-free snuff, nicotine lozenges help smokers to quit

Smokeless tobacco users who said they didn't want to quit changed their minds or significantly cut back when given nicotine lozenges or tobacco-free snuff in a Mayo Clinic study.

Amylmetacresol and 2, 4-dichlorobenzyl alcohol lozenges were better than placebo lozenges for relief of acute sore throat.

Modulation of lipopolysaccharide-induced oxidative stress by capsaicin.

This study investigated the effect of capsaicin (the active principle of hot red pepper and a sensory excitotoxin) on oxidative stress after systemic administration of the endotoxin lipopolysaccharide...

Rampant caries from oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate lozenge abuse.

Oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate lozenges (lollipops) are indicated for the oral management of breakthrough cancer pain. When abused, these sucrose-containing lozenges can cause rampant dental carie...

Low-concentration capsaicin promotes colorectal cancer metastasis by triggering ROS production and modulating Akt/mTOR and STAT-3 pathways.

Colorectal cancer (CRC), one of the most common human malignancies, is a major public health problem in the developed world. Capsaicin, widely used as a food additive and as an analgesic agent, is...

Antitumor activity of capsaicin on human colon cancer cells in vitro and colo 205 tumor xenografts in vivo.

Capsaicin was reported to inhibit cancer cell growth. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antitumor potential of capsaicin by studying antitumor activity in vitro as well as in vivo. The in vitr...