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Service sure does come with a smile, but sometimes with a great deal of understanding.

Recently, looking for a gift,

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

I settled for a breakable item from a gift ware store in a shopping mall. On leaving the shop and making my way out of

; 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 mall I slipped at the top of the escalator and broke the bowl I purchased.

Not that the gift was over-expensive,

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

bout $50, but it took me quite some time to make the selection and the thought of having to look around and find somet

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

ing else was not very appealing. So, I returned to the shop and asked the assistant for a replacement of the identical

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

Combination pro

article I broke.

"But you just purchased the same one," she said. So, I told her what happened. "One moment," she rep

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

ied after listening attentively to my hard-luck story.

A couple of minutes later she returned.

"The manager of the s

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

ore hopes you didn't hurt yourself and would like to replace the bowl at no charge," she warmly said to me.

Imagine m

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

feelings. One minute, down in the dumps, the next riding sky high.

What a fine gesture, but even what a finer act 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

goodwill and customer service. The manager of that store knew I would tell everybody I knew about the incident and the

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

positive response from this quick-thinking and shrewd manager. A gesture worth many hundreds of advertising dollars sp

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

Following aspects would a

nt.

Sometimes, it takes a great deal of understanding by shopkeepers and sales assistants to sum up the needs of a cu

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

tomer. Selling is more than simply producing an item, wrapping it up and taking the money. Sales staff should be encou

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

aged to talk to customers and understand what they are really looking for, but perhaps can't find without assistance.

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

In my case, the hard-luck story turned into a pot of gold for that store. But in so many other instances, just a frien

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

ly exchange sometimes breaks down the barrier of resistance.

And customers like to tell others about shopping experie

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ces; the good, the bad and the ugly.

So next time a sales assistant takes your money and completes the sale with that

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

well-worn cliche "have a nice day" ask yourself a simple question.

Was that a programed comment, or was it a genuine

.

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

xpression of care and understanding?

Lloyd Masel spent 40 years in shopkeeping specializing in customer relations, st

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

ff training, marketing and advertising. Contact him on falstaff@zahav.net.il

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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