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Is that a question? The act of blogging or, putting out personal, private, community or sub-cultural information, thoughts, opinions and communication for the masses is by no means a new idea. People have been forc

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

ing their opinions down other people’s throats since the dawn of man and the development of language and the written word. Beginning with writing on stone tablature to record accounting of goods and services to mon

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

Examples of combination products may in

s scribbling scripture to the invention of typesetting and the newspaper to radio to television to the Internet, human beings have wanted to express themselves verbally to a mass audience in order to effect change

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

r simply stir things up. Blogging allows for the small, insignificant individual to bring to the world wide web his or her thoughts, musings and beliefs for better or worse.

The benefits of this not entirely untap

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

ed genre are bountiful. There are no editors. There are no rules for grammar, spelling, biased or unbiased viewpoints. There are no (so far) corporate magnates controlling the content of the Blogosphere. Ideas may

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

Combination pro

e presented at the whim of the author; there is no red tape or bureaucracy to navigate through or around. There doesn’t need to be any sugarcoating. It is instantaneous, live and collaborative. A person can respond

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

to the another person’s seemingly frivolous diatribe on the benefits of a cheese sandwich and, boom!, a communication is born that can spiral out of control, spinning to the far corners of cyberspace or simply lie

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

dormant or dead, never to be discussed again. There is no schedule. No waiting. Perfect for our day and age of get it now, while it’s hot because once it’s cool, no one will care. Radio, TV and newspapers creep at

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

turtle’s pace compared with blogging. It is a system of checks and balances on the Internet itself. Content put out into the public consciousness can be responded to instantly. The user controls it and gives valid

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 to each person’s personal opinion. This social phenomenon connects the world by the mere fact of communication. Author X writes a post. Reader Z disagrees. Reader Z comments, instantly responding to the ‘autho

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

ity’ of the author X. Reader Z’s comment starts a new train of thoughts and opinions among 15 other readers and writers. People include the commentary and the original article in new weblogs, and so on and so on un

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

Following aspects would a

til the topic and content itself is maxed out.

The creation of blogs has skyrocketed in the last two years. According to Technorati, a San Francisco based website dedicated to tracking, researching and highlightin

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

“what’s new” in “citizen media” (the blogosphere), as of August 2006, statistics are showing that there are over 55 million blogs. The survey began in November 2002 and shows that the blogosphere is 100 times bigg

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

r than a mere 3 years ago. From March 2004- June 2006, the amount of blogs doubled every 5-7 months. Since June 2006, blogs are doubling every 200 days. This breaks down to 2 new blogs being created every second of

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

every day, somewhere in the world and being updated over 18 times a second. That’s an incredible amount of information being traded, responded to, recreated and linked back and forth. This is the future of the Inte

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

net and it’s happening right now. It is no longer a tool to submit to and look at or observe, it has become an interactive tool to express opinions, thoughts and a democratic account of one’s existence.

“In a sens

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

e, Blogs function like peer-review journals do in the academic world, but there’s a key difference. The distribution of articles in academic journals is largely controlled by a publishing cartel that charges exorbi

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

ant amounts for subscriptions, which are subsidized by the institutions that can afford them. Think of it as a socialist model for information exchange. With Blogs, however, anybody with an Internet connection can

.

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

ngage anybody else. Concepts are presented, attacked, sliced, diced, added to and subtracted from, mangled, massaged and molded until what is left is an amalgam of the finest we as an online society has to offer. F

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

r the digitally well-endowed, it’s akin to free-market capitalism, with information as its currency. And not only do we all get to watch, we can join in.” Adam Peneberg, “Like it or Not Blogs Have Legs”, Wired News

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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