Fixed Dose Combinations in Indian Medicine Market - A SWOT Analysis

Medicines are weapons used to fight ailments and diseases. More than one medicine is often used for treatment of either single ailment or multiple co-morbid conditions. Most of the modern medicines are potent chemicals having specific and characteristic physical, chemical, pharmacological and therapeutic properties. These properties vary from drug to drug. The dose, route and the regimen of a drug vary from one to another based on its intrinsic properties and characteristics. The chemistry of most of the generic molecules are supporting individual use of medicines, rather than their combinations. Practising pharmacists, doctors and nurses constitute the right category of health professionals who can appreciate and apprehend the facts related to modern medicines in the proper perspective and take them to the benefit of patients, health care professionals and the health care programs.