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Inventor Profile: Dr. Jacqueline Shan and Dr. Peter Pang

Cold-fX

Cold-fX and its sister product Remember-fX use extracts from North American ginseng rather than Asian ginseng. Both products are available in capsule form and have no side effects or interactions with prescription drugs.

Cold-fX is used by elite athletes, and several Canadian professional sports teams—including the Edmonton Oilers, Edmonton Eskimos, Calgary Flames, Calgary Stampeders, Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens—consider it part of their arsenal for players’ ongoing health throughout the league seasons.

Today, more than 6,000 stores carry Cold-fX compared to 1,200 when the product was launched in the winter of 2003.

With Remember-fX, launched in May 2004, the company drew attention from medical practitioners eager to see a product address mid- to late-life memory loss, and the effects of Alzheimer’s.

The nationally syndicated medical writer Dr. W. Gifford Jones was one of those physicians and in a January 2005 column, he described the product as the "smart pill."

"Remember-fX contains active phytochemicals and works by increasing choline uptake in the brain," co-inventor Dr. Jacqueline Shan told Gifford Jones. "This results in an increase of acetylcholine, a key neurotransmitter essential for learning and memory function. And that this also prevents nerve cells from undergoing degeneration."

The company’s Web sites are located at: www.cold-fx.com or www.cvtechnologies.com.

Alberta Innovation 2004 – A Cure for the Common Cold

The Heritage Community Foundation is pleased to present this feature video segment from the Alberta Innovation 2004 documentary courtesy of Alberta Innovation and Science.

Edmonton’s CV Technologies is making headlines for two exciting medical breakthroughs, including COLD-fX®, the next best thing to a cure for the common cold. Watch it

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