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In this day and age with vast amounts of information available online and off line, are you still relying on your doctor to make your health decisions? Or are you simply ignoring your declining health,

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

accepting it as part of life?

I am about to let you in on a well kept secret. Getting sick is not normal and should not be expected! You don’t have to have a cold every winter. The ‘flu season’ does no

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

have to affect you. You don’t have to accept declining health as part of getting older. These are lies that the manufactures of drugs want you to believe so they can stay in business.

Eating a decent

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

iet, getting a little exercise, keeping up on your vitamins and using herbal treatments are all you should ever need. Echinacea, garlic and onion are all great immune system boosters. If your immune sys

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

em is strong you can be in a room full of sneezing first graders and never get a cold.

Papaya will get rid of the worst stomach ache in a matter of seconds. Potassium will relieve your aching legs. Cal

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

ium taken daily will eliminate menstrual cramps. Your IBS is probably a combination of colon congestion and systemic yeast. A good colon cleansing herbal treatment and some acidophilus will end your ibs

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

for good.

These are all readily available, very inexpensive and actually good for you.

There was a time when doctors were the only people who knew anything about medicine, medical procedures, h

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

w our bodies work and so on. Those days have long since past.

We now have available to us, all the information we need to make our own health decisions. Alternative herbal remedies are abundant. Health

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

and fitness information is plentiful.

Are you letting the person who sees you for ten minutes once a year make your health choices? Who knows your body better than you? Who cares more about you?

Le

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

’s look at a quick scenario:

You are having a health problem. You go to your doctor and tell him or her how you feel. According to the medical journals, most other people who had similar

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

/u> symptoms found some relief by using a particular drug. This is what your doctor decides will be best for you. He writes you a prescription and tells you if you aren’t feeling better in two we

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

ks come back and see him again. Do you smell Guinea pig?

Wouldn’t you be better off looking into the situation before hand? Find out what other people are doing to get relief for your same, exact sympt

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

ms. If you think you can handle the problem without medical intervention, do it. If you feel better letting some stranger make your life decisions, at least you will go to the doctor with more informati

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

n than a handful of general symptoms.

Now when he decides you need a particular drug you might be able to say, “Well, I heard about this alternative treatment. What do you think about it?” If your doct

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

r is so closed minded that he will not even consider alternative or herbal treatments, you really need to find a new doctor. Yours is only looking for a paycheck.

I am not suggesting you never go to yo

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

r doctor again. Some things can’t be done at home. Lab tests and bone setting, for instance, do require a medical professional. I am saying there are better ways to handle your health than packing your

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ody full of chemicals and hoping for the best.

You are not ‘most people’ and ‘similar symptoms’ could be many different things. Do the research and find out the truth about your health. If your situati

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

n is not life threatening, maybe you are willing to try something different. It is highly possible a little common sense and a good herbal remedy will solve your problem with no side effects at all.

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As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

Sometimes constipation is just constipation and a nice cup of senna tea will take care of it. It certainly can’t hurt to try.

Isn’t it time for you to get healthy and stay that way? It can be done.

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

All you need is the right information and some occasional natural remedies. So make a decision today that you are going to start taking care of you. Start researching your health. Get well and stay well

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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