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Have you ever asked yourself this question at work? If you have, it’s more than likely you were being sarcastic – stuck in the offic

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

e late because a superior tossed a short-deadline project on your desk, or while you’re bemoaning a lack of job satisfaction.

You ne

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

Examples of combination products may in

d to ask yourself this question...FOR REAL.

Life is short – you SHOULD be having fun.

What brings passion into your life? What wou

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

d you do even if you weren’t being paid? If your career path doesn’t fall within the answers to those questions, you might want to c

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

nsider embracing some personal change.

Choosing your career path isn’t something done during college and never revisited. Your work

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

Combination pro

ng life needs to be reassessed regularly to evaluate whether your life is in balance. For example, if you chose a career path strict

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

y because of the income it offered, it’s a better than even bet you’re now feeling stressed by work pressures at the cost of the rest

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

of your life.

What did you dream of being when you were young? I dreamed of writing, and of acting. I went to college for theatre,

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

then moved to New York and became a television engineer. It might sound like I followed my dream, but the television work was ridi

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

ulously well-paid, and not really something I “loved”. I loved being a witness to the first draft of history by covering world event

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

, but I found myself looking at the reporters and producers and thinking I’d rather be doing their jobs.

Predictably, by the time I

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

Following aspects would a

eft the news network where I had been working for over twenty years, I was utterly burnt out. My move to Richmond helped me regain t

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

e life balance that had been missing for so long. Now I’m looking for opportunities in public relations and corporate communications

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

which will allow me to write and speak – the two things I love and do gratis.

Evaluate the contribution your work makes to your lif

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

. Don’t make work your life, make life a priority at work. Inventory your passions and skill set – what would be the highest and be

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

t use of those passions and skills? When you’ve got some answers to that question, look at where you are. If you’re in a work situa

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ion that doesn’t engage your passion, start embracing change, girlfriend!

Look for opportunities in your current company. If they s

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

em scarce, put your network to work. Ask friends and colleagues for leads, and for advice. Look for someone who has your dream job

.

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

ask them for mentoring and coaching. If the profession has an association, go to a meeting and network like your life depended on i

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

– it just might.

Don’t trudge through your work life. Make sure your answer to the question “Are we having fun yet?” is “Oh, yeah!

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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