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Panama is undergoing a transformation of sorts. The real estate boom in the city has reached walloping proportions and the embryonic tourism sector is preparing to explode like a seagull on Alka-Seltzer. Couple that with the widening of the Canal, the newly-acquir

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

ed UN Security Council seat, and the tropical storms that are driving people away from traditional retirement havens, and you get one thing whether you like it or not: thousands of awkward, apple pie-guzzling, fanny pack-sporting Americans flying into the isthmus

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

Examples of combination products may in

very year asking if it’s OK to eat the lettuce?

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t dislike Americans. But having eaten with them, drank with them, slept with them, not to mention actually being one of them myself, I know Americans to be a tiring breed. It is this influx

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

though, that consistently urges me to venture outside of the traditional tourism hotspots in Panama, and into uncharted territories. It is this influx of my fellow countrymen that led me to rekindle some of the allure—that sexy and exotic appeal that brought me d

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

wn here in the first place. I have found this revived charm down in a place called Azuero.

If you picture the country of Panama as a stumpy version of an upper-case “T”, the Azuero Peninsula sits secretly at the bottom—the part where you pick up your pen and move

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

Combination pro

on to the next letter. Its southern-most tip, Cambutal, lies about seven degrees from perhaps the hottest and most famous line in the world, the equator. The region is characterized by rolling hills, stunning beaches, and a rugged coastline, off of which lie some

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

of the most pristine islands in the entire country. And no, they didn’t film Survivor here.

I visit this region frequently and am close to calling it a second home. One benefit of being in such a remote location is the constant improvements on my Spanish because

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

in rural areas, you cannot get away with vague or imprecise sayings like you can in the city. No, down in Azuero I am unable to explain to the pharmacist ‘brown balls that are running’ and forced to learn the word for diarrhea. I am unable in Azuero, unlike the ci

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

y, to ask the pharmacy woman for products using crossword clues: “medicine for brown balls that are running, for example”.

I first went down to Azuero for the same reason I make most important choices: I was bored. I met the towns of Pedasi, Tonosi, Santiago, Ch

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

tire, Las Tablas, and felt a tingle in my heart. Not unlike people before the invention of the adult diapers who instead used wads of sphagnum moss, I was elated to find that places like these existed. This trip back in time when car horns and high-rise condo buil

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

ings didn’t ruin things. The property down there is stunning, being snatched up by investors and developers who are deeming it the next Guanacaste. My first meal experience in Azuero was as close as I’ve ever come to a gastronomic revelation.

It was off in a plac

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

Following aspects would a

e near Puerto Mutis, one of the peninsula’s foremost port communities, staying with some friends of friends whom, by the nature of our relationship, appeared to be nice to me purely out of commitment.

“Ready” asked Ismael, my host who actually reminded me of Quas

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

modo. Ugly, party of one? Ugly, party of one? His level of intoxication suggested he’d spent hours intravenously administering the moonshine he’d been brewing out back. The kind of guy who could probably wake up the next day and blow a .85. By the time we were rea

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

dy to prepare dinner, Ismael was looking around the room as if he didn’t really know where he was.

“Ready for what?” I asked.

“Ready.” Ismael said, “We’re ready.” I had no idea what he was talking about but just went with it for fun.

“Ready!” I said.

Upon agre

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

ing beef sounded good, Ismael poured me a small glass of his homemade liquor, served out of an old plastic Sprite bottle. He and his brother pulled out a nice-enough looking cow, what appeared to be the family pet. Then with the nonchalance of a bake sale, I sat t

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

here on the porch and watched as my hosts slashed the cow’s throat. The procedure itself was rather quick, but it struck a chord with the squeamish American in me. The American who’s constantly under the gun for eating inhumanely-harvested foi gras and cancer-caus

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ng Szechwan peppercorns. The American who can’t even order a burger medium rare anymore because of health restrictions. The American who is scared to death by the warning label on his Caesar salad.

Ismael gave me a strip of the meat and I was left holding it in m

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

y carnivorous little fingers, the still-palpitating tenderloin of Elsie the cow. Upon incubating the warm fleshy tissue in my palm for a minute, I took a bite and immediately understood why cowboys think they are so cool. It was at that point that I came to realiz

.

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

that eating something newly-killed, an action far from politically correct, is actually extremely empowering, enjoyable, and above all delicious.

The Azuero Peninsula (specifically the towns of Santiago, Las Tablas, Pedasi, and Tonosi) is a hoot. Everything seem

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

s to be so removed and wholesome. Lots of people ride bikes which I think is great. Families eat their dinners together. Chickens run across the roads. It’s hilarious. Trip back in time totally. The Azuero Peninsula is Panama’s final tourism frontier. Mark my word

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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