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I feel like I just escaped from the twilight zone.

No really. I have a tale to tell, and it needs to be told.

You really have to hear this.

H

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

opefully you get a chuckle from it. It also happens to be true.

You know how you write articles and hope they get indexed for a certain search

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

Examples of combination products may in

term?

Well, I dutifully pealed off my article from my deft fingers, and submitted it to the best article submission site, Ezinearticles. I had

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

planned to submit to another good submission site, goarticles. However I was sidetracked with other life issues. I think you know how it is.

An

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

yway, I finally submitted it to goarticles about 36 hours later.

Now lets fast forward another day. I checked Google, and guess what? My articl

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

Combination pro

e was ranking number three for this certain product term. Time to celebrate!

Now let us jump another day. I checked the next day and… there was

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

a Google shake up, and my article had been deindexed by the look of it. Okay, now I’m kind of sad.

But that happens right?

Now here is where

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

I became lost in the twilight zone.

I check back on Google several days later, out of curiosity, and my article is showing up not once, but twi

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

ce on the first page. Hey, where’s that champagne again!

But wait. Here is the rub. When I click through from the highest listing, all the way

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

at number two, has copied my article. He has given my credit for it, my copyright is intact at the very bottom, but not used my bio.

Okay. Some

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

what naughty. And he is ranked at two, and my own article has disappeared into cyberland. Ironic huh? But wait till you hear the rest.

Okay. No

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

Following aspects would a

w I come upon the second article. Here is where it gets downright strange. At least to me. Maybe it happens all the time. I do not know.

Anyway

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

, the second article is at about seven. Here, the guy didn’t include even my copyright. In fact, he submitted it as his own! Which probably happ

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

ens a lot. Now, here is the punchline, as it were.

The article was submitted to Goarticles! How is that possible? Well, I checked my own accoun

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

t, and it was not listed on my list of articles I had submitted. Can you guess what probably happened? Between the time I submitted to Ezinearti

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

cles and Goarticles, the guy must have discovered it on Ezinearticles and submitted it to Goarticles before I got around to it. Yikes!

So to ad

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

d insult to injury, not only is he able to submit my original article to an article directory I had also submitted the same article to, and got

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

accepted, which therefore declined mine, he is listed on the first page of Google.

How insane is that?

Both listings may only be there for a f

.

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

ew days. Then again, they could be there for weeks, months, even years…

Such is life I suppose. Thought you would find it amusing.

So, the les

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

son in all this?

When you submit an article, do all submissions all at once!

I can’t help but smile with the irony.

Copyright Gary Martin 200

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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