Detecting Cold, Feeling Pain: Study Reveals Why Menthol Fresh

Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the bodys ability to sense cold. The finding, reported on-line in the journal Nature (May 30, 2007), reveals one of the key mechanisms by which the body detects temperature sensat...

Study finds that tobacco companies changed design of cigarettes without alerting smokers

...gs on the FDA bill last year, Connolly discussed that research, including how tobacco companies have increased nicotine content over time, manipulated menthol and added candy-like flavors to enhance appeal to children. Until regulators have a system in place for assessing product revisions, Connolly and F...

Tobacco Companies Targeting Teens, Study Says

...chool boys and 50 percent of high-school boys. Camels were smoked by 12 percent of middle-school boys, compared with 4 percent of girls. Newport, a menthol cigarette that is primarily marketed to black communities, was the preferred brand for 60 percent of black middle-school students and 79 percent of bl...

Menthol Cigarettes the Most Addictive

... Jan. 15 (HealthDay News) -- The cooling flavor of menthol cigarettes may make them more addictive and deadli...rs, a new study says. "We previously found that menthol cigarette smokers take in more nicotine and carbon monoxide per cigarette. This study shows that menthol smokers also find it harder to quit, despite smoki...

Popular cold and cough treatment may create respiratory distress in young children

... WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. New research out of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center suggests that Vicks® VapoRub®, the popular menthol compound used to relieve symptoms of cough and congestion, may instead create respiratory distress in infants and small children. The study appear...

New Sucrets(R) ICE Cools Sore Throat Pain

... and enjoy." Sucrets ICE provides relief of sore throat pain with added succulence of fruit-flavored ice. It includes the active ingredients menthol and Pectin to act as an oral anesthetic that relieves pain and demulcent that soothes the throat. It also includes Echinacea and Zinc. Avai...

U.S. House Casts Historic Vote to Protect Kids from Tobacco, Save Lives; Senate Should Act This Year and President Should Sign Bill Into Law

...o their products without disclosing them (such as manipulating nicotine and menthol levels in cigarettes), and resist any meaningful change to make their produ...to non-addictive levels. This includes the authority to reduce or eliminate menthol in cigarettes. -- Ban candy-flavored cigarettes. -- Require larger, mor...

Tubbs Jones Votes to Support the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

...overnment to work with state and local governments to develop strategies to prevent underage tobacco use in communities with a disproportionate use of menthol cigarettes by minority youth." Specifically, provisions of the legislation include serious barriers to attempts to market to youth. The legislation ...

Lorillard Tobacco Company Comments on Harvard School of Public Health Report

...ignificant differences in risk for disease between menthol and non-menthol smokers." -- "Research on differences in cessation outcomes between menthol and non-menthol smokers had conflicting results." ...ally false. Lorillard does not control levels of menthol to promote smoking among adolescents and young adu...

Erase Pain in Mere Minutes

...in. The cream offers fast pain relief without a greasy feeling or unwanted odor, usually within 15 minutes. Dr. Janet's is not one of those hot/cold menthol rubs in the first aid aisle of the pharmacy. It is specially formulated with ingredients that treat the source of pain, not simply cover it up for a f...

Menthol in Medical Technology

Comprehensive Safety Tests Published on Ruyan(R) Smoking Alternatives

...pelled, it does not contain any of the harmful chemicals found in second hand smoke. Cartridges for the Ruyan E-cigarette are available in regular and menthol flavors. The Ruyan V-8 was named the most innovative new product at the 2008 Tobacco Plus Expo. The Ruyan Vegas E-cigar comes in two varieties, the ...

Menthol in Medical Definition

Excoriation

...cant change in behavior is witnessed. Treatment may include periodic bandaging, psychiatric guidance with life adjustments, lotions with or without menthol and phenol (to hopefully take the place of scratching). Antidepressants may work in patients with neurotic excoriations. Other medications like b...

Menthol in Medical Dictionary

Crigler-Najjar Syndrome

...ICATION — Crigler - Najjar syndrome , also referred to as congenital ... P. STUDIES ON THE INHERITANCE OF CRIGLER -- NAJJAR'S SYNDROME BY THE menthol TEST. ... Crigler - Najjar syndrome - WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, Cary, Wake County, Research Triangle, Johnston County, North Ca...

Menthol in Biological News

Detecting cold, feeling pain: Study reveals why menthol feels fresh

Scientists have identified the receptor in cells of the peripheral nervous system that is most responsible for the body's ability to sense cold. The finding, reported on-line in the journal "Nature" (May 30, 2007), reveals one of the key mechanisms by which the body detects temperature sensation...

Novel method reveals how menthol discovery could point towards new or improved pain therapies

This new understanding could lead to potential advances in pain therapy, the researchers said. Moreover, the scientists envision that their method may be potentially useful in studying the activation mechanism of other drugs and proteins. "Because our ability to sense temperature is closely link...

Researchers discover molecular mechanism that desensitizes us to cold

...r the sensation of cold. They found that a specific region of this receptor interacts with a signaling lipid in the cell membrane called PIP2. Cold or menthol stimulate this receptor and alter the electrical properties of the membrane, a process that leads to the sensation of cold. When the receptor is stimu...

Menthol in Biological Technology

Solace Pharmaceuticals Appoints Professor David Julius, Renowned Pain Physiologist, to Scientific Advisory Board

...ensory neuron excitability under both normal and pathophysiological conditions. Following a similar paradigm, Professor Julius' research showed that a menthol receptor from primary sensory neurons is activated by cold thermal stimuli, and that the structure of this menthol/cold receptor, TRPM8, resembles tha...