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Some of America’s greatest inventions came from African American invention - but you may not know that. With the subjec

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

tive portrayal of the history of the US - along with a long-living bias in some people - recognition of African American

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

Examples of combination products may in

invention is far from the mainstream.

Sure - you may be aware of some few of this inventor group - but I am sure that

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

ou (as so was I) are not aware of some of the monumental inventions offered to America by Black invention.

One of the m

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

st famous contributors to African American invention was George Washington Carver. Without him, some college students w

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

Combination pro

uld starve! And P&J sandwiches would not be available for kids lunches.

George Washington Carver helped save the South

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

ern farmer by introducing the planting of peanuts (legumes) as a rotating crop to restore nutrients that the cash crops

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

f tobacco and cotton sucked from the earth. When the farmers - who were happy with their increased yields - began to co

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

plain because they had too many peanuts and didn’t know what to do with them - GWC came up with PEANUT BUTTER - and abou

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

300 other uses for the peanut. The South was saved by a former slave.

Garrett Morgan was another contributor to Afric

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

n American invention. He saved lives by inventing the gas mask, which was a staple in WWI - and the automatic stoplight

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

Following aspects would a

, which saves lives on the american road.

Then there was Elijah McCoy. though trained as an engineer - because of his

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

olor he could only get a job on the railroad as a fireman/oilman. His job was to stoke the engine with coal - and manua

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

ly lubricate various moving parts on the engine and train so it could continue to move. At the time, the train would ha

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

e to stop every few miles to be lubricated or the parts would freeze.

McCoy came up with the “lubricating cup” - an aut

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

matic lubricator that took the place of manual lubrication. Train companies loved it. So did others that tried to get

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

in on the profits. McCoy had up to 60 imitators - that did not do as good a job as the McCoy lubricating cup. So - tra

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

n companies started demanding “the Real McCoy.” The phrase continues to exist in American speech today.

These e

.

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

amples are of only three African American inventors - and, like others, they helped this country grow. A clear example

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

hat creativity, invention and intellect are not limited to a selected few; but rather, are inclusive of all human beings

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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