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GLASSES ON OR OFF?

Here’s the million dollar question… when you start your natural healing adventure, should you continue wearing your glass

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

es/lenses or should you go ‘cold turkey’ and just bin them straight away?

There’s no easy answer to this one. It really depends on the curre

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

Examples of combination products may in

nt state of your vision, your circumstances and also on your temperament.

My original reaction, when I got started with my natural vision co

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

rrection, was a little too ‘Gung Ho!’ I took off my glasses and threw them in the bin, vowing never to need them again. Actually, this slowed

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

down my progress.

Here’s why…

Remember I said that ‘straining’ to see, is one of the greatest causes of poor vision. Your eyes need to rel

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

Combination pro

ax in order to see well. Personally, I do a lot of close vision work (I work a lot on the computer), and so without my glasses, I found mysel

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

f straining to see. I began to develop some very bad vision habits, like squinting, and getting too close to the screen (more of this later).

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

I already had poor vision habits, and now I was adding to them! I found that I did actually need my glasses to be able to work, even though

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

I desperately wanted to get rid of them. The trouble is, that at best, lenses are a crutch, and continuous use of any kind of crutch just wea

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

kens the body’s ability to become strong and heal itself. So my glasses were necessary for me to work, but they were also contributing to my

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

poor eyesight!

It was a Catch 22. But I found a solution. I found an optician who was willing to ‘work with me’ during my healing adventure

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

Following aspects would a

. Just a quick note here – the first couple of opticians I spoke to were not at all supportive and basically mocked my intention to help myse

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

lf, telling me I was wasting my time! If you get the same thing, keep looking. There are plenty of open minded professionals who will help yo

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

u. I asked the optician to help me monitor the improvement in my vision, and as my eyesight got better, to give me progressively weaker and w

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

eaker lenses. Oh, one more thing… I asked him to always give me lenses that were at least a half diopters too weak for me, so that my eyes we

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

re always being encouraged to work a little bit, instead of get lazy!

Each month, I went for a quick eye test, and if my sight had got bette

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

r, I got new lenses. By the way, a close friend of mine also did this with contact lenses. She bought the daily lenses, and found an optician

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

who would just keep giving her weaker prescriptions, as her eyesight improved.

Now, if you can comfortably get around daily life without re

.

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

ally needing your lenses, and you just use them for convenience, then you can probably just go cold turkey from day one. Just use your own go

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

od judgment and common sense. Remember, you are taking responsibility now.

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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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