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Your audience cannot both listen to you and read your slides at the same time. Therefore

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

, you should not show too much text on your slides. You will find that the best presenters hard

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

Examples of combination products may in

ly use text at all in their slides. It is useful to push technical, complicated or textual data

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

into a handout.

When you do write text on your slides, do not write out everything that you w

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

ll say! Use text to write down a simple, brief statement that can serve as a summary or introdu

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

Combination pro

ction to what you will talk about. The text must not tell the complete story – otherwise your a

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

udience would be better served if you simply emailed them your presentation. The slides should

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

not be like subtitles on the TV – they should not be a text version of what is already coming o

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

t of your mouth.

Slides should be used to support your presentation. They should not be able t

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

o stand on their own. They should not serve any purpose outside of the context of your live pre

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

sentation. Presentation slides are ephemeral – something unique to that moment in time. Once yo

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

Following aspects would a

ur presentation is over, the purpose of your slides’ existence is over.

The best slides may ha

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e no text at all. This may sound crazy given the dependency of text slides today, but the best

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

slides will be virtually meaningless with out the narration that you provide. Remember, the sli

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

des are meant to support the narration of the speaker, not make the speaker superfluous.

If af

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

ter my presentation someone ever asks me to email them a copy of my slides, I find this to be a

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

great tragedy. Because it means that the person will be able to understand my slides from my pr

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

esentation alone, which raises the question of whether I really needed to be there at all, and

.

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

whether my presence actually added anything to the audience’s experience.

The bottom line:<

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

/b> If your audience can understand your presentation from your slides, do you need to be there

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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