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What does Tai Chi mean to You...

Tai Chi is the "newest" health and fitness fad. I say "newest" tongue in cheek, though. Although Tai Chi i

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

s new to most Westerners (and Aussies!), that doesn't mean that it's new everywhere.

Tai Chi has actually been around forever by Western and

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

Examples of combination products may in

ussie standards. It's an ancient form of Asian martial art. The easiest way to describe Tai Chi (if you haven’t seen it before) is that it l

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

oks kind of like a cross between kung fu and dancing.

Now, I know Tai Chi is technically called a martial art, but I laugh inside every time

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

hear that. Have you ever seen anyone doing Chi Practice? It’s not like other martial arts. In tae kwon do, for example, you move quickly.

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

Combination pro

Of course! You need to be quick to block your opponent’s attacks, and you need to move even faster to surprise them with your attacks. With

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

ai Chi, though, the trick is to go… very… s-l-o-w-l-y…

That makes Tai Chi look more like a dance than a fight. Everything’s smooth. While 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

ing Tai Chi, you go through the motions smoothly and slowly, so that (if you do it right), it’s impossible for someone to tell when one pose e

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

ds and another begins. That’s makes it arguably the most beautiful martial art.

At this point, you’re probably wondering, “What good is a ma

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

tial art where you move very slowly and smoothly? It couldn’t possibly be good to fight that way?” And you’d be right. Tai Chi (as we usual

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

y see it in the West) is not for kicking butt. Tai Chi has loftier purposes.

About 200 million Chinese people (give or take a few million) d

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

Following aspects would a

o Tai Chi each day. They’re not worried about using it for self-defense, though. For them, it’s a sport, an exercise, and/or a way of life.

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

It turns out that doing Tai Chi is VERY good for you. It strengthens your muscles and helps you stay flexible. It develops your ability to b

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

lance. It moves you blood around in your body to distribute oxygen, hormones, and other goodies to where they’re needed. And Tai Chi strengt

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

ens the immune system.

Yet it’s not hard for most people to do. Even very old people or very overweight people can usually do Tai Chi. (But

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

ask your doctor first if it’s okay.) It doesn’t require you to exert yourself. You don’t have to move fast. You don’t have to bend far. It

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

s low-impact and easy on your joints. You don’t have to wear fancy clothes or buy any fancy equipment to do it. And if you do it right, it’s

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

very hard to hurt yourself while doing Tai Chi.

Because of all of this, Tai Chi is (finally) becoming popular in the West and Australia, espe

.

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

ially among people new to fitness and elderly people who have trouble doing more hard core forms of exercise.

So if you’d like to try Tai Chi

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

don’t feel shy. Young people, old people, men and women are trying Tai Chi. You can try out a beginner’s class to check it out for yourself

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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