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If you’re anything like me you have oodles of emails arriving in your inbox every day. You open them all because you've subscribed to their mailing list and you know they norma

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

lly (not always) have some valuable offers or information you could use. The computer fills up with ebooks, valuable info, useless info (just in case I missed something when rea

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

Examples of combination products may in

ing it) etc. etc. Before you know what’s happened you discover that a few hours have passed by and you’ve got nothing else done.

INFORMATION OVERLOAD or ‘infoglut’ as it’s somet

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

imes called.

This happens day in day out, week after week! Just when I was about to start on a specific project for the day I suddenly have all this new information and ideas ru

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

ning round my head I find I don't what to do first. So what can be done about infoglut?

Here are some Dos and Don’ts on how to handle it all and beat back the overload. You need

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

Combination pro

to maintain the ability to filter through all the information, and still maintain your sanity! Most people end up drowning in a sea of information when all they wanted was a sim

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

le drink of water.

Do

1. Have a clear purpose in mind for what you want to achieve. If you only have a vague idea of what you’re trying to achieve you can easily become side-tr

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

acked and surf the net for hours. This wastes so much valuable time.

2. Write a ‘To Do’ list, in notepad or word, for the day and keep it on your desktop. It will help keep you

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

ocused. Alternatively write a few notes on a post it note and stick on the side of your monitor. E.g. ‘check email’, ‘add listing to eBay’, write article....This keeps your atten

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

tion on what you should be doing rather than getting up to date about what’s happening in all your favourite soaps.

3. Try to recognize quality information. Instead of reading e

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

ery email word for word, skim through them and if they’re not pertinent to your project for the day, then move on.

4. Prioritise your workload. What’s the most important thing y

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

Following aspects would a

u need to do today? Put it at the top of the list. What need to be done after that? And so on.....

5. Reward yourself. Decide for yourself that when you’ve achieved A, B, and/or

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

C you can have .say 30 minutes surfing time before starting your next task.

6. Take control. This should probably have been at the start of the DO list but you need to bear it

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

n mind all the time. Stick it on the monitor!

Don't

1. Let information take control of you so that you end up working 60+ hours per week.

2. Take computers on vacations or bre

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

aks away with your family

3. Attempt to examine every piece of data available.

4. Focus on things beyond your control, such as the number of new Web pages being added daily.

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

5. Waste endless hours trying to do something that you have no knowledge of. Save time by visiting forums and asking for help. It’s a good way to also help others while you’re th

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ere.

These ideas are by no means exhaustive. You’ll come up with more as you go along. However, if you start to incorporate some of them into your daily work routine it’ll save

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

ou hours in the long term and will become second nature. Instead you’re time will be constructively spent helping you to make money which is why you’re doing it all.
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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

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

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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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