Summary - Relationships

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring close-knit family in another city.” ~ George Burns

”Rel

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

ations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, no

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

Examples of combination products may in

r the smallest instinct about when to die.” ~ Oscar Wilde

We need to trade tolerance. Though there a

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

re people we get along greatly, in every family, especially the one that is not ours, it is sometimes

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

difficult to tolerate some of the members, mainly the ones we consider boring or nosy. No one disagre

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

Combination pro

es with me on this one, I am sure.

Marianne was complaining that her brother-in-law came for a sever

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

al-days visit while her husband was working. Since she has little to talk to him, or so she thinks, s

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

he confined herself in her bedroom for days, and would only get out of it to cook dinner for the husb

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

nd.

This situation was unnerving for her and she could not stop feeling victimized because of this g

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

uest. Now, couldn’t she have made the best of it, learned to appreciate another human being who is, a

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

fter all, part of her family, and enjoy the visit? What kind of behavior is this, leaving a guest to

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

Following aspects would a

fend for himself and providing food and company only when it was in her best interest to do so? Where

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

are the laws of common courtesy?

Like everyone, I, too, have my own “his/hers relatives” stories. A

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

former mother-in-law (I had two) used to come to my house and bring old bread… nah… this is a mother-

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

in-law story and will be discussed in another article.

A Word of Advice:

Ladies and Gents: Decide b

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

efore the first big argument regarding relatives, how you will deal with the relatives. They are real

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

they will not disappear, and they are dear to each of you. Compromise and by that I do not mean: You

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

shall put up with my relatives as long as no relative of yours ever visits us.

Now, if you have alr

.

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

eady had your argument about relatives, you are a little late for a first compromise, but not for a s

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ubsequent one. Sign a contract expressing exactly what you both expect in terms of courteous behavior

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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