Like huge anchors on cruise ships, other people can hold you down. Not intentionally, but their negativity impact
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 you. It’s hard to be winning at working when you’re anchored in place. It’s hard to see the next great idea and enthusiastically embrace it, when you’re feeling a sticky heaviness. And i
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.
Examples of combination products may in
’s hard to think creativity when you’re feeling empty.
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.
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Like a balloon with air pouring out, deflated and fla
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
at the end, I hung up the phone, drained. For the most part I’d offered a supportive ear with occasional contributions of asked for advice. Several days in a row, he called or stopped by
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.
Combination pro
my office, with a second, and a third, and a fourth verse of the same song. After each encounter, my energy felt zapped. It got to the point where Jay’s presence alone started my energy le
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
ving, replaced with an empty heaviness as if his negative energy was seeping into me.
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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
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It took me awhile to figure it out, but Jay was an energy drainer. I’ve learned over the years, if
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
I spend too much time around people with negative energy to share, my optimism, and enthusiasm for work (or life) are adversely affected.
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
ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
may know people in your own work life who hold you down, zap your enthusiasm, cheer you into self-destruction, and occupy so much of your time and energy that you can’t offer the best you
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.
Following aspects would a
o anyone, including yourself. And you know people who do the opposite.
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:
Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
My solution? Use that feedback. Spend less work time with the drainers, and more time with people who offer you a
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
energy boost. Once you’ve identified how it feels to be around energy boosters, look to fill gaps, especially on work teams, with people who bring positive energy to a meeting, who are fu
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
n to be around, whose enthusiasm and positive approach lifts your spirits, enhances your creativity, and adds to your work life. Find and stay close to these energy boosters.
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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
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.
Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
mple measurement to identify energy drainers and energy boosters: the laugh factor. The more laughter I find in the process of doing business, the m
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
re energy I know is in the room. The more energy in the room, the more gets done. I look for people I can laugh with, have fun with and share ideas with. My work results are better when I’
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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
m around people who make me feel energized when I leave them. Yours can be, too.
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.
Companies that provide selfless information through particip
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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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