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    How old is too old when it comes to driving? When is it time for seniors to give up their driving privileges?

    My 83 year-old grandfat
    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
    her was driving nearly until he died. Had it not been for a sudden head injury caused by a fall he took at a convenient store that led
    ; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

    Examples of combination products may in
    to a stroke, he might still be driving today. Pop-Pop as I affectionately called him was a retired Lt. Colonel from the U.S. Army. He
    lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

    was wonderful with people, loved and was loved by everybody.

    Unfortunately my tender-hearted grandfather suffered from degenerative m
    here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
    aculation, which adversely effected his ability to see on and off the road. I recall watching him open a safety deposit box at his loc
    d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

    Combination pro
    l church, where he was the head financial secretary. Pop-Pop wearing glasses also used a magnifying glass to be able to see the number
    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
    s on the lock he would turn to access the box.

    One afternoon Pop-Pop came home with a sizeable ding in his car, which he later told m
    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
    e was caused by a huge bright pink trash dumpster in our neighborhood street. He claimed it happened while he was fiddling with his ra
    nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
    io. Some months later Pop-Pop was brought home by paramedics in an ambulance following an accident that occurred just outside our subd
    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
    ivision. He totaled his car and nearly killed himself in the process when he pulled out in front of an oncoming vehicle.

    To further i
    ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
    lustrate my point, consider an April fools joke I played on my grandfather. Pop-Pop was born on April 2, 1919. It just happened that I
    ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

    Following aspects would a
    went to the Department of Motor Vehicles on April 1st about a year before Pop-Pop died. I had gone to renew my license. Upon coming h
    dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

    Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
    Which combination prod
    ome (as I was living with my grandparents at the time), I slipped into the wash room where Pop-Pop was shaving.

    I told him, "I went t
    cts are meaningful and rational?
    Which therapeutic categories to select?
    Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
    Do combin
    the DMV and renewed my driver's license today." Pop-Pop replied, "Yeah." I said, "Yes, they saw my address and realized I lived with
    tions increase the patient compliance?
    What would be the developing cost?
    How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
    you and therefore want you to come down and take an eye exam."

    Pop-Pop got real quiet and suddenly froze on me. I then happily reliev
    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
    d him by saying, "April fool's day!": He caught his breath and said, "You stinker."

    My beloved grandfather died in December of 2001 j
    ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

    Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
    ust before Christmas. He had been driving up until two-and-a-half months before his death. Funny (or frightening for some) his driver'
    y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
    s license, which I later found in his wallet after he died, was dated to expire in 1996.

    I wonder how many more senior citizens are d
    .

    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
    iving on expired licenses?

    Pop-Pop drove by faith not by sight as I often jokingly said. My prayers seemed to have covered him real w
    elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

    Companies that provide selfless information through particip
    ell.

    I love the elderly deeply. I really do. Yet I love the rest of humanity adversely effected by their bad poor-sighted driving too


    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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