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I get quite a few emails like the one below, asking for a simple guide to RSS...

"I read your information on RSS. Frankly, it was frightening, as new things usually tend to be. What you need is a tutorial for abso

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

lute dummies. Your article moves too quickly into a form that is reminiscent of people who it for is assumed know more about web sites, source codes, and the like."

...This email is so true for the majority of w

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

Examples of combination products may in

bmasters and I will try to provide the simplest explanation of RSS as possible.

Fastest and easiest route to take:

Go to www.blogger.com (owned by Google) and create a free blog -- in the process you will create an R

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

S feed that you can use to send your content/podcasts. You can place this RSS feed on your site.

While there, look around, check out the FAQ and read all the information on RSS and blogging. You will discover ever

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

y blog has an RSS feed attached to it. It is a way of broadcasting/syndicating your content to all interested parties.

Please understand, in most cases, your blog URL is not the same as your Feed URL.

Also keep in m

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

Combination pro

nd, there are many ways to create a blog/RSS feed on your site.

Another popular way is to use free blogging software like WordPress (www.wordpress.org) -- you can download their files and then you upload them to y

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

ur server. This does require some knowledge of handling server files and scripts but everything is conveniently explained.

Besides, the WordPress installation is very straightforward and most webmasters and site ow

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

ners should be able to set up a blog/rss feed without too much trouble. There is also an excellent help section/forum if you're a complete novice with handling server-side scripts.

You have to realize RSS is only sim

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

le code that syndicates your content to all interested parties, it originally stood for 'Rich Site Summary' and was a way of summarizing your content and broadcasting it. Most people now refer to RSS as 'Really S

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

mple Syndication'.

It was mainly used by news groups and sites. Dave Winer of UserLand and Scripting News fame -- created RSS in 1997.

Then we had the blogging revolution, which spread RSS around the web, and into th

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

mainstream. Well, sort of, we are not quite there yet!

Many believe RSS will fully come into its own when Microsoft finally releases Windows Vista, it will have RSS embedded in its source code. The ordinary su

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

Following aspects would a

rfer won't have a clue what RSS is and will still be using it in tons of applications. As it should be, how many Internet users know what DOS or even HTML are?

Once RSS becomes totally integrated into the Internet

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

and our browsing experience, it will become even more important for webmasters like yourself to full understand RSS and what it can do for you and your site.

I believe every site should have at least ONE RSS feed or

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

blog.

There are only Three Questions/Problems concerning RSS that keep popping up again and again. These questions are answered simply here:

1. How do I create an RSS and Blog?

Answered above... use a free s

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

ite like Blogger.com which lets you publish your blog files to your own server or use free blogging software such as WordPress. www.wordpress.org

2. How do I read my RSS or any RSS feed?

Several ways... you c

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

n read any RSS feed by using an aggregator or RSS feed (news) reader like Newsgator, Google Reader or you can use the Social Bookmark feature present in some browsers like Mozilla Firefox. As mentioned above, the n

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

xt Windows will have RSS embedded into its operating system.

3. How do I put my or anyone's RSS Feed or content onto my site?

Several ways... you can try the popular Feedburner.com to place your headlines a

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

nd feeds on your site. Another good one is www.bigbold.com/rssdigest --- no programming required --- you can use JavaScript, PHP, or an IFRAME!

RSS for some unexplained reason, still remains a little known and mys

.

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

erious creature for most webmasters and surfers. This is a bit troubling, when you consider the growing importance RSS will play in the overall function of the web. A factor which makes RSS a subject that has to be

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

understood by webmasters, dummies and geniuses alike.

Regardless of where you fit into that group, if you need further help on RSS, see the resource box for an online RSS tutorial and a simple downloadable RSS Guide

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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It can cost twice as much to get a new customer than it does to keep an existing one. And that doesn't even factor in the destructive cost of suffering from the negative word-of-mouth publicity that results from unresolved complaints. So it's well worth doing all you can to get the customers you've lost, back.

Every grant writer wants to win every proposal submitted; however, once the grant is awarded, the real work begins. Writing a grant alone, without buy-in from the staff, administration, or colleagues can create an implementation nightmare. Great grant writers engage committed teams in the planning process - otherwise they do themselves and their organizations an injustice.

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