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The ongoing buzz about RSS feeds seems to still be almost matched by ongoing confusion. After a couple years of working with both sides of the RSS equation, site feeds and RSS feed display, I've come to think of the differences in a fairly simple way that may get rid of so

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

me of the confusion.

Try thinking about RSS in terms of Input and Output. Visualize your site as the center point. On the one hand you have what comes to your site and does something there. This is the Input to your site. On the other hand, you have what leaves your site,

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

Examples of combination products may in

and that's your site Output.

Here's two quick examples. Your incoming links from other sites are Input for your site. The links you have on your site that go to other sites are Output. Your visitors are Input. Hopefully the visitor Output involves something good for you

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

like going to an order processor.

RSS Feeds Display is the input side of RSS from the point of view of your site. Essentially you are bringing in RSS feeds and displaying items from those as content on your site. That's the RSS feed as content Input.

An on-site RSS fee

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

d, containing items from your site intended to be used off-site would be the RSS Output side. That, however, will have to wait for a later article.

Since everybody has their pet interpretation of what RSS means, I'm going to ignore that. But to see more clearly what a fee

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

Combination pro

is and how it works, let's take a brief look at just what's in one.

Just so you know, a variety of feed formats and coding structures exist, but let's skip that too. Just like a web page has the underlying html (or an equivalent code type) that tells the browser what to

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

do and how to display the page, the code used in RSS feeds defines the different pieces of content and tells a feed reader or another program what each thing is and therefore how or where it can be used in an output display (or ignored).

Every RSS feed has a header sectio

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

n that provides information about the feed. Some have a lot, others fairly little, but normally at least the name of the feed (the feed title), a link to the site providing the feed, a description of the overall feed content, the language used, a copyright statement, and a

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

date time stamp of the last time the feed was built are included.

Then the individual feed items begin. The minimal content is the item title, the link to the item, a description and the date published. Other items such as a guid (an identifier which can allow feed reade

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

s to ignore previously read items), category entries (which are similar to and used like technorati tags to categorize the feed item) and a variety of other elements depending on the feed source and purpose can be included. In almost all cases, for display, all we'd be int

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

rested in are the title, link and description.

The descriptions in the items can be short segments of text or the full content of a page, article, news item, blog entry, etc. Pictures can be included and some descriptions are even loaded with html code to control how the

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

Following aspects would a

item is displayed (this seems to be more common with descriptions containing images). And, of course, some feeds contain ads of various kinds. However, ads are not usually embedded in the item description so this is not normally a concern for displaying on your site (but,

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

remember to always check the items displaying on your page to make sure you want to keep displaying items from any particular feed).

Each item in the feed has the same structure. The uniformity is what allows feed readers and scripts to consistently handle RSS feed displa

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

s.

There are several ways to display feeds, usually php or other server side scripts or javascripts. RSS feed items displayed via javascript are generally not a good choice if you want the search engine bots to be able to read the content. Other scripts will output the

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

content as part of the page (usually updating each time the page is reloaded) or create static html pages. These latter kinds of feed item displays can be as easily read by bots as any html content.

You can find a variety of free and paid options for displaying RSS feeds

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

If you are a tech type and enjoy working with scripts some of the free options may be a great choice. While they can do an excellent job, they tend to be slightly to seriously complex and, in my view, somewhat feature deficient. Of course, the more complex they are, the

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

more features they tend to have. Paid options also vary significantly and I'd encourage you to check out them thoroughly. Be clear about what you want to do and make sure any paid script solution will do what you want in a way that works for you.

Using RSS for content (t

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

he Input side of RSS feeds) can be a valuable addition to your site from an SEO perspective and provide your visitors with useful information - particularly if you choose feeds tightly related to your site theme and mix the feed content to provide your own unique combinati

.

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

n of related news. However, note that word "addition". These days using a feed or feeds for a significant part (or all) of your site content is unlikely to gain you much favor with the search engines and may get you dropped from the index faster than you got added.

The p

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

int is that smart, moderate use of feeds still gives you the twin advantages of regularly updating content for bots on otherwise static pages and more themed information for your visitors. And that's what the RSS Feeds display deal is all about.

Copyright 2006 Richard Kei

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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