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Introduction
In recent years forums has emerged as a great tool for sharing resources, ideas and views worldwide. Even, search engines are now giving more value to forum posts. One can create a forum and can enjoy high traffic on th

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

ere site. Creating a forum needs nothing but any of the free forum software installed on your webserver. I will give some basic terminological details –

General Description and terms used This topic can only be better understood i

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

Examples of combination products may in

you have knowledge for few basic terms. If you are aware of following terms just skip it for the next heading.

Admin – Admin is organizer of the forum. He can add or delete any user, can ban any IP address, manage all forums and b

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

ards on the forum and do all house keeping activities.

Topic – Topic appear as menu on any board. Usually, every topic is replied. The topic and replies together make any discussion.

User – Simple visitors of the forum. They have

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

User ID and a password. They can also add image called ‘avatar’ and a signature.

Posts – Any topic or reply is called a post.

Profiles – Every user has a profile, it contains – user id, date joined number of posts, date of birth,

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

Combination pro

signature and other details (Email id, AIM, YIM etc.).

Banning and warning users – If any user goes beyond the rules of the forum, he/she should be banned or warned. Warning means a tag is added to the name of member, while banning means

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

hat member cant login and even cant create a new login from his/her IP address.

Pruning – Some boards are set as auto pruning, this means all dead and useless topics are deleted automatically after some time.

Bulk mail – An admin

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

an send mail to all the users. This is called bulk mailing.

Forum skin – The overall look and feel of the forum is governed by forum skin. Admin can add new skins to any forum. Some forums offer their users ability to select any skin from

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

a list. There is at least one skin called default.

Some valuable tips

1. Choosing topics When creating the forum, be careful. In my opinion try to stick on one domain, instead of, putting all-in-one forum. For examp

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

e if you are taking jokes as the base of your forum don’t mix cooking in it. Better you open two separate forums for that. Periodically consider to open new boards.
2. Censorship and pruning Censorship not only helps your board

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

to be clean and trouble free but also keeps members visiting. If your forum allows using inappropriate words, you will soon see that many members have left your forum. Make sure that your forum is viewed at – home, office, schools and other publi

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

Following aspects would a

places, keeping it clean will always attract more traffic. Pruning is regular deletion of dead posts. Don’t use auto pruning for useful boards as they may be viewed even if there is no new replies, but it is always good to set auto pruning of

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

hat based and test area boards.
3. Adding Moderators Adding global moderators is one of the best loads sharing exercise for any webmaster. Moderators are normal user with some extra capabilities like – editing any post, warning a

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

y user, changing and setting user profile.
4. They never click on ad It is usually seen that member never click on ad. This is a problem for administrator to generate money by using Ad-sense type of ad. One thing can be done – pu

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

ad on your forum on the basis of number of prints instead of number of clicks. Try to join some member exchange drive of few companies like – ebay, my space etc. where you can earn good money by making your members joining these community.

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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

> 5. Once a trouble maker , always a trouble maker If you think that a member is not following the rules of your forum take quick action. The proper way of action is usually – first warning him/her and then one can consider banning him.

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

A rule of thumb is – Once a troublemaker, always a troublemaker. So make take quick action against such members. Even you are losing one member you can make sure other will not leave due to that troublemaker.
6. Increasing Traffic

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

Usually all search engines give a higher rank for any forum post. Like if you are searching for any topic and there is a forum post regarding that topic, you will see that search engine will place forum topic first in its search. With this in min

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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

one can say that, more the topics posted more the traffic it will attract. One can also opt for advertisement drive; this will help in establishing the forum. Once we got a good number of members just stops advertisements.
Conclusion

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

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Forum administration is an integral part of forum health. A good forum is one which achieves its goal and members found it useful. I am not in favor of strictly administrating everything, but I am in favor of friendly administrating it

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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