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Are you anxious or do you suffer anxiety? There is a difference. If you don’t know which you have, you may be trying to eliminate the wrong thing.

To understand this you first need t

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

o know what each are.

Being anxious is common. It is the state of feeling excited and just a wee bit more. Being anxious can be a good thing in that it helps you to fee

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

Examples of combination products may in

motivated or excited about certain events.

If controlled it helps you to get work done quicker, it can stimulate your creative urges and your job performance levels can increase.

If this

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

eeling of being anxious increases, or if your energy decreases as work pressures, deadlines etc advance, then it can change. If allowed to progress beyond the feelings of excitement or minor

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

nervousness, being anxious can become a case of anxiety.

Anxiety is harmful. At all levels no matter how big or small, anxiety will create harm. Anxiety changes your brain chemistry

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

Combination pro

and affects your body’s ability to function.

Anxiety will create changes in your heart rate, blood pressure, nerve conduction, digestion and literally every system in the body. Anxiety will

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

create fatigue and change your ability to process information.

Anxiety is common today as you have allowed the progression to this state. How has this happened?

Your d

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

ay to day life has changed. Your work pressures have increased since you now use ‘time saving’ devices. The computer, cell phone and other gadgets have allowed you to fit more into your day

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

o day routines. As you become busier and busier your energy levels decrease, your health declines and that feeling of being anxious has become … anxiety.

Anxiety is kept under

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

control when your body and mind function well. When your energy levels are high, then stresses are low. Once your energy declines, stresses become more stressful. They eat away at your reser

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

es and allow stress to sink in and change your functional ability of your mind and body.

This is a slow process, it doesn’t happen overnight. Most of the time you are unaware of it until it

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

Following aspects would a

is too late. You wake up one day go to work and suddenly notice you snap at people more often. The deadlines seem to come faster than usual. The creative urges dry up and you feel you are t

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ying to force ideas or inspiration from your body and mind physically.

You finish the day and feel drained rather that euphoric. You get home and your spouse seems to be more on edge and yo

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

r children more grumpy and irritating. Your weekends feel too short and life becomes too hard.

All just because stress has changed over time … no more being anxious ...you now have full

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

blown anxiety.

In an ideal world you would have a thermometer taped to your forehead. It would read the level of stress and energy in your body and mind, you would then when to take a b

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

eak or slow down. This way all the anxiety and stress events would be avoided or combated easily.

The problem is you don’t have a thermometer to measure the stresses increasing. So w

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

at can you do?

You need to day to day stress relief exercises. This way you know you are reducing your stress and anxiety levels before they get too high. You don’t need to spend hours each

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

day doing this. Just a few minutes each day, doing an enjoyable activity, that reduces stresses and anxiety automatically. Then each day your stresses will melt away.

Anxiety

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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

nd stress are killers, slow assassins that will creep up on you unless you take action now. Don’t wait until you are clutching your chest with a heart attack, don’t wait for the boss

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

to look in your eyes and say ‘Jones that idea is just rubbish’. You need to eliminate anxiety and stress now. A life without anxiety and stress is a life … not a death sentence.

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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