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"Where do you work?"

"Planet Earth."

Sound familiar? No? Well, it should. More and more people are working from home on the Internet, and there are two things you should know a

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

bout your office when you work on the Internet.

First, your office will be very, very small and very, very lonely. Just you and your pajamas.

Second, your office will be very, ve

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

Examples of combination products may in

ry big and full of many, many people from every corner of the planet, mostly trying to sell things to each other. That is because when you work from home, Planet Earth is your offi

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

ce and theirs.

For instance, would you believe that a man on the Internet in the Ukraine delivers the local weather forecast

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

in Sydney to Chicago? So much for sticking your head out the window.

I have a client in the UK who sells machine parts through a website selling d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

.gm-exports.com">ball and roller bearings to every country in the world ... except the UK, of course. Doesn't that make the local hardware store redundant?

With so many client

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

s crowding into my office, I could use some stress relief strategies around now.

Office Politics in the Global Office

My clients live on almost every continent, and the on

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

y thing that occasionally gets in the way of seamless communication are time-zone differences. (If Columbus would have minded his own business, we wouldn't face even that challenge!

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

)

What's more, my clients are not always English-speaking, and neither are all of my clients' websites. Can you say netzwerk?berwachung? I do search engine optimization in four l

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

anguages - English, French, Spanish and German - which tells you something about the global office in which some of my clients sit.

But there is more than just language that makes

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

the global office a tricky workplace to navigate. Aside from the lack of water coolers and washrooms, most of the world works in metric, but the biggest Internet market works in im

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

Following aspects would a

perial. So some customers won't know what a mile is, and others won't know what a kilometer is.

And everybody spells funny to someone else. Is it honor or honour? Center or cent

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

re? Folks or peeps?

Fortunately for me, I live in Canada. 95% of Canadians live within a stone's throw of the US border. (They are all folks, by the way.) So we officially learn

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

to spell and to count the way the British do (but they are still not peeps). Nevertheless, Americanisms sneak across the border by osmosis, perhaps due to an attack dog budget sho

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

tfall at the illegal aliens department.. At least I'll know what a mile is – it's that thing people want to take when I give them an inch.

And what about currency? I make it simp

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

le. I use US dollars, because that really is the currency of the Internet. But I also accept Paypal payments, so anybody can input their favorite currency and out pops US dollars

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

on my end. I wish more people would do that. I could use more dollars.

If none of that phases you, consider time zones. Just as a client in Australia is waking up, your client i

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

n the United States is going to bed. And how will they reach you when you are not in the office. Tools like email to phone servi

.

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

ces can help. So can insomnia.

Nobody twenty years ago would have imagined that you and I could sit at home and type words into a TV screen to make a comfortable living. Wel

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

come to my office – Planet Earth.

Hmm. Right now I am reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...I wonder if I can work from home on the Internet on any other planets..

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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