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RSS or 'Really Simple Syndication' is not just for Blogs and News sites. Every website can benefit from this newly popular technology. The term 'syndication' is what throws a lot of people off the track. Syndication i

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

s like news articles, isn't it?

Well it can be. But think of it like this. If you had a bricks-and-mortar store and decided to carry a new product line, how would you let people know? You could advertise of course,

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

Examples of combination products may in

ut a better and free alternative is to send a news release to the local paper. Their business section may carry your announcement free of charge.

Now back to our cyber-store in virtual space. If you add a new web pag

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

e, or make substantial changes to existing pages, how do you let your customers (both former and future) know? You can email your former customers, but spam blocking software will prevent half of them from getting you

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

message. And keeping track of mailing lists, unsubscribe requests and address changes is nothing short of a nightmare.

Instead, post a news release using RSS. Interested customers will have their newsreader program

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

Combination pro

watching for your announcements, and will get the news as soon as you send it out. The announcement will include a link to the new or changed page, and your customer can click on it if they are interested. True, few

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

er will click through than might read an email from you -- but those who do will arrive at your site in a much more receptive frame of mind. And those email readers still need to click through to your site to see your

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

new page anyhow.

If you make frequent additions or changes to your site you should have your own RSS feed. Check out these sites to learn how to make your own feed:

Making An RSS Feed

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

n, so you can post it to your website:

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

Following aspects would a

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dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

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But what if you don't often make changes or additions to your site? There is a new site that offers a solution to that problem. Shared RSS provides feed by TO

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

IC rather than publisher. So you simply post your message in the appropriate topic category (there are thousands to choose from) and share your feed with others publishing on the same topic. It is a free service that you

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

certainly should use if you do not publish your own feed.

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Wouldn't that mean (I can hear someone object) that I would be sharing a feed wi

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

th my competition? Well yes, but that isn't a bad thing. It's like all those antique stores that congregate in the same part of town -- shoppers flock there and wander store to store, to the benefit of all.

Don't kid yo

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

rself, customers already know about your competition. For every customer of yours who visits their sites because they found an RSS link on your site, you will receive one, two or three visits from potential customers who

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

found your information on an RSS link they discovered on your competitors site, or in a catalog of RSS feeds. The benefit far outweighs the risk.

And RSS feeds are not just for business. If other sites submit to the sha

.

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

red feed they will bring with them more people interested in that topic, who may become your future customers.

No, RSS is not just for Blogs anymore! Start your own or submit to a shared feed, either way you can only be

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

efit.

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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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