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Web content for newspapers online has been limited to repeating what paid staff writes for the print editions of their papers or material coming from one or another of the wire services to which the parent o

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

rganization subscribes.

We're all familiar with seeing Associated Press or Reuters stories running in our local paper and posted online at various news organizations. Imagine a news wire service for blogs wh

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

Examples of combination products may in

ch could syndicate your blog to appear on online news sites. A new service called BlogBurst has emerged to help bring blogging and news together on the web sites of major media.

http://www.blogburst.com/

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

logburst makes the writings of a select group of bloggers available to news organizations by aggregating the musings of selected blog writers into a feed made available to major papers. The news organization

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

can apparently choose from among the topic areas and bloggers offered via the BlogBurst feed.

Some bloggers have launched news commentary blogs with groups of bloggers commenting on news. There already exi

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

Combination pro

st several attempts to popularize what has become known as "Citizen Journalism" by such notable groups as "We the Media and Dan Gillmore's Bayosphere which seems to have been taken over by BackFence. Releva

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

t links below:

http://wethemedia.oreilly.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_journalism
http://www.bayosphere.com/blog/dan_gillmor/
http://sf.backfence.com/bayarea/index.cfm?mycomm=BA

Wha

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

is often lacking for bloggers who provide commentary on the news is an audience. Those experiments mentioned above have been available on small sites, which are otherwise unknown to the world. Struggling t

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

gain readers is the bane of blogging, since people can't read what they don't know exists.

Some well known bloggers have found their audience through writing compelling content and being discovered by majo

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

r media when they break their own news stories. Others gain that audience through connections or through fame, but most bloggers toil away daily for the pure love of a topic while gathering small and loyal

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

ollowings.

BlogBurst promises to make web content from the blogosphere discoverable by the media by limiting the availability and vetting the sources, so accuracy and truthfulness is maintained and the blog

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

Following aspects would a

can be trusted. It's an interesting experiment and may be the route to bloggers earning a living from their blogs by gaining an audience they previously had little access to - major newspaper web site visito

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

s.

Since unknown bloggers appear to need the media in order to spread the word (becoming well known in the process) and newspaper web sites appear to want blogs associated with their site, BlogBurst is fill

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

ing that need. Since a lack of income is what haunts many bloggers hoping to earn from their commentary, BlogBurst will allow those bloggers to both reach an audience and capitalize on their own traffic via

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

heir own advertising, whether that is Google Adsense, Blogads, or some other agreement with individual advertisers.

News sites have launched blogs written by volunteers, some have offered staff journalists

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

blog, others have tried allowing "Comments" from readers. But volunteers appear unreliable, staffers have little incentive to blog without pay and comment sections are subject to abuse by comment spam. ZDN

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

t is currently offering bloggers in popular technology topic areas and is apparently providing payment from advertising revenue generated by those blogs.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/

BlogBurst is taking an inter

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

esting approach by offering online news organizations filtered and verified news commentary from bloggers. Presumably, this content will be available directly on the news sites, such as the Washington Post,

.

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

Gannet News sites, San Francisco Chronicle and Houston Chronicle news sites.

BlogBurst is reviewing proposed blogs currently and will announce the engagement in a live trial with major news sites in May. Wi

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

l the love of blogs by major media result in a spring wedding? BlogBurst appears to be offering to serve as minister to a marriage made in heaven. Stay tuned, to see if this will be a long lasting marriage

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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