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Blogs can be highly personal yet entertaining. Many write about their experiences wit

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

h illness, relationships, work issues or other trying situations as a way to share wi

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

Examples of combination products may in

h others who are facing the same challenges. Other bloggers just write for fun, about

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

their kids, concerts they go to, funny things their pets do and so on.

They can be u

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 as a journal that documents daily activities, frustrations and conquests, but when

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

Combination pro

do you cross the line and disclose too much?

If your blog or journal is posted for “

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

Everyone,” meaning that anyone can look at it, you should always hold back personally

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

identifiable information.

Here are ten things to never put in your personal blog:

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

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1. Your full name.

2. Your kids, friends or family member’s full names.

3. Whe

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

e you work.

4. Where you live.

5. Telephone or cell number.

6. Personal email addr

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

ss.

7. Where you will be and when you will be there.

8. Pictures of where you live

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

Following aspects would a

or work that include identifiable information.

9. Pictures of your car that show the

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

license plate number.

10. Travel Itinerary.

If you hold back identifiable informati

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

n you can be assured that most of your thoughts are safe to share. If you are not con

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

erned with generating traffic to your blog, just write and don’t worry about whether

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

t is going to be read, linked to or even liked. However, even if your blog is set to

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

“Protected,” meaning only certain people can read it, you still need to be careful ab

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

ut writing content that may come back to haunt you later.

If you really just want to

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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

write and not worry about sharing, set your blog to private, and keep your posts to y

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

urself. Either way, public or private, blogging can be fun, cathartic and informative

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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