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Back in 1985, which I now realize is more than 20 years ago, a homeless man stood at the corner of College and Yonge stree

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

ts, in downtown Toronto, begging for money. This was his cry:

“Quarter! Quarter! Dime! . . . Nickel! . . . Eeeeeeeeven a

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

Examples of combination products may in

enny will do!”

Of all the panhandlers that I met during those four years that I walked the streets of Hogtown, I remember

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

this man alone. He stirred an emotion that made him unforgettable.

That emotion was pity.

I can recite his pitch word f

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

r word because it was so pitiful. He didn’t change a word of it in four years. He yelled his appeal all day, every day, fr

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

Combination pro

om the same corner at the uncaring masses. He clearly had a mental illness and couldn’t work. He didn’t appear alcoholic.

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

o my heart was moved whenever I passed his corner, and I sometimes dropped change into his outstretched hand, and spoke 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

kind word.

I donated to his cause for the same reason that your donors can donate to your cause—compassion.

When you sit

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

down to craft a fundraising appeal letter, look for the problems in your work that stir in you feelings of pity, compassio

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

n or sympathy. If something stirs your heart, it will likely stir your donor’s heart.

Look for painful feelings or situat

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

ons that you share with those you serve. Look for the sympathy that you feel over another person’s suffering. Look for tha

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

Following aspects would a

t tender sorrow that you feel for someone (an orphan, a battered mother, a prisoner of conscience) in distress.

Then craf

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

your letter so that you capture that pity and evoke it in your donors through the written word. Fundraising letters, as K

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

en Burnett so well observed, differ from sales letters in one vital way: buyers and sellers have a relationship of shared

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

ommercial interest, but donors and fundraisers enjoy a relationship of shared conviction.

One way to advance that shared

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

conviction is to supervise your tear ducts and your oesophagus. When searching for a profitable fundraising letter theme,

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

sk yourself this: “What is it about this problem that makes me cry or (if I am a man) puts a lump in my throat?” When you

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

find it, describe it to your donor in a way that moves their emotions, which moves them to donate. Twenty years from now,

.

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

hey might not recall what you write today, but you never know.

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

e and in print provided the links remain live and the content remains unaltered (including the "About the Author" message)

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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