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Today, the internet has become an integral part of our lives. In fact, it is hard to name a technology which has left so big an impact on modern life. Apart from the fact that the

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

internet is a mine of information, a viable business platform and a means of social interaction, what is truly astounding about it is its global reach; and this is the reason why

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

Examples of combination products may in

the internet today has emerged the primary platform for business, academia and pleasure - regardless of location. It is a compendium of a range of technologies – it integrates th

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

e capabilities of the telegraph, the telephone with that of the radio and the computer.

The form in which most individuals access it today – the World Wide Web – is the result of

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

a concerted effort to bring together continual investment, path breaking research and committed infrastructure development. What had started out as an experiment in military comm

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

Combination pro

unication technology is now a means of global information gathering and dissemination. The history of the internet involves three major aspects – technology, infrastructure organi

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

zation and the role of community in shaping its current form. Also, we should keep in mind that the evolution of the internet has been the result of the government, the academia a

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

nd the industry working together.

The story begins in the year 1957. This was the year that the erstwhile USSR launched the satellite Sputnik, stealing a march over the US in the

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

space wars. Spurred by this defeat, the Ministry of Defense created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA). While the primary function of this agency was to supply state of

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

the art defense technology, it also became the nodal site for computer research in the United States. It is here that the first computer network of its kind would be developed. T

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

he need for such a communication network was determined by the fact that from the beginning, ARPA was interested in developing a communication interface between the computers on i

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

Following aspects would a

ts operational base and those at the sites of its various sub-contractors locate din various top academic institutes and research laboratories.

In the August of 1962, J C R Lickl

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ider circulated a series of memos discussing the possibility of building a ‘Galactic Network’. He envisioned this as a global network, formed of interconnected computers through w

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

hich any individual would be able to access data, from any location in the world. This was the first time that the possibility of such a network was posited in the scientific comm

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

unity. Licklider was the first head of the computer research program at ARPA and was thus particularly influential in directing its research. At the same time, another scientist w

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

ithin the ARPA was developing another technology which would later form an integral part of the internet.

This scientist was Leonard Kleinrock and he was involved in the developm

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ent of ‘packet switching’. This is the method of sending information through breaking down the intended message into ‘packets’. These individual ‘packets’ are sent separately and

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

the computer at the other end reassembles them to form the complete message. The main advantage of this method was that it increased the flexibility of the network and increased i

.

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

ts capacity to handle traffic. Also, this was a more secure process of sending data as it makes spying difficult along with the fact that it removes the need to rely on only one r

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

outer.

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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

Meetings held and organised by Pharmaceutical companies are an essential way of communicating and evolving scientific research, clinical development and medical education. However, there is always the danger that they can be seen as a blatant attempt to railroad Health Care Professionals into prescribing products by using lavish surroundings and hospitality to influence them.

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