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Today I want to share with you a beautiful Taoist meditation/Qigong visualization practice … So to begin, please find a comfortable place to sit, either on a chair with your spine up-

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

right and your feet flat on the floor; or in a comfortable cross-legged or “hero” position on the floor. Take a couple of deep, slow breaths, filling your lungs completely and then sa

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

Examples of combination products may in

ying (either out loud or to yourself) “aaah” as you exhale. Let go of any tension you find in your neck, face or shoulders. Feel your energy descending, filling your legs and hips and

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

belly. Smile gently, and close your eyes.

Now, imagine that you’re sitting outside, at dusk, on the shore of a beautiful mountain lake. The air is pleasantly warm, and perfectly calm

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

. As the sky darkens, stars begin to appear. Soon, the entire night sky ~ visible above the silhouettes of the mountains ~ is filled with them: golden-white points of light, millions

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

Combination pro

and millions … Let yourself be filled with amazement at the vastness of it all, its quiet mysterious beauty.

And then, in your imagination (still sitting there on the shore of the mou

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

ntain lake), notice one of those stars moving toward you (kind of like a “shooting star,” but slower). As it moves closer and closer it “grows” in size, becoming ever more bright, and

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

ever more beautiful. Closer and closer … larger and larger.

And as it draws even closer to you (hovering now somewhere above the lake), what you notice is that it’s not a star at al

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

, but rather it is an infant: a beautiful newborn, naked and shining like a star. And as this newborn, golden-white, moves even closer, what you notice is that it’s not just any
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
> newborn … but rather it is YOU as a newborn!

And now, imagine that beautiful newborn, who is you-as-a-newborn, floating even closer, until s/he is hovering directly above you
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
head. See and feel his/her Presence there, golden-white, shining like a star. And now, allow the crown of your head to soften, as though it were the dome of a temple, which you were
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
slowly opening … And as you do this imagine that the newborn who is floating above your head is beginning to descend, toward the opening at your crown.

Now imagine the newborn enter
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
ing that opening at the crown of your head, as though entering a temple … and continuing to float downward, along the central channel of your body (just in front of the spine), until s
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
he is floating in your heart center. Feel the Presence of the newborn, shining like a star, in your heart-center.

And now the newborn-who-is-you continues to float downward, along th
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
at central channel inside of your body, until s/he is resting in your low belly, below the navel. See and feel that newborn, warm & bright as a star, floating there in your belly. As
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
you breathe, send waves of love and appreciation to this infant, this newborn-who-is-you, resting now comfortably in your lowest belly. Let yourself feel delighted by his/her Presence
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
there, inside of you … as though you had within you a secret treasure, which you had just now discovered.

And now, keeping a portion of your attention here with that new-found treasu
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
re … open your eyes.

To end (this post, and begin the rest of your day), a poem about the Kahmiri yogini Lalla (written by Frithjof Schuon):

Lalla

When Lalla Yogishwari found
.

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
Atma
Within herself, the outer world became
Her sole garment, a web of dreams;
Thus she went naked beneath the vault of Heaven.

And as she entered from the outwa
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
rd to the Inward,
So did the Inward enter her body’s fullness;
And thus she went naked and dancing through the land –
In Lakshmi’s ecstasy and in Atma’s stillness

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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