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There isn’t much to writing an article when you’re single, free and unimpaired by small humans. But chuck a child into the mix and difficulties arise. What new parent hasn’t sat down for a five-minute break on a Monday afternoon, smiling as their son rolls around the floor

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

before tackling that one last bottle/potato/nappy to fill/peel/clean? Ten minutes later, job done, you slump back into your place on the sofa, look at your watch and find that it’s Friday night, around about 9.48. ‘Time’ was once something to fill before the big event on

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

Examples of combination products may in

aturday evening; now it’s fractured, pieced together with small events that somehow crowd out the possibility of there being another big event in your lives ever again. Suddenly going to the shops on your own seems a right treat.

How much easier if I had been asked to pos

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

a new weekly photo of my son! At present we have approximately 837 more photos of our son than the Americans took in the jungles of Vietnam during the 70s. I blame digital cameras. They are too good. The pictures focus themselves, centre themselves, and even take themselv

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

s if you want. And you can see the result immediately, to preserve or delete. Yeah, right. We have deleted one so far and that was only because I was assured by Jane that it made her legs look like prosthetic limbs for Jabba the Hut’s fat cousin. But delete Tom? No way. So

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

Combination pro

ehow every picture feels like a private, captured moment that can never be repeated; a personal still detailing a developmental stage of my perfect son. It doesn’t matter that in some he looks like Cujo; what with the red eyes, the uncontrollable slobber, and the insane de

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

ire to show off his two teeth. The point is that he might never look like Cujo again. Got to keep that! Oooh look, he’s blinking! Aaah, he’s turned away from the camera! Hey, did you know he could look like a bored ICT technician! How very remarkable.

We have the customar

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

birth photos: bundled up on his mum’s chest, a tender blue and with his tiny hands clutched against his chin. His eyes are closed and he looks asleep, calm, content. One particularly funny one has Sam, a mum of two, hitching a thumb into her bra-strap like a Hillbilly

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

eady to nip out a quick feed. A Pavlovian milkmaid. The picture on this site last week of him lying on our bed was taken on the day of his birth, approximately three hours after Operation Forgetthemuckybit.

We then have a picture of him for pretty much every day since. Mo

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

t days we have more as it would have been stupid to go through all the rigmarole of getting the camera out of its case (2.6 seconds) only to take one photo. We have pictures from the first day he smiled (wind or not it’s still cute), eating pictures, sitting upright pictur

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

s, lying down pictures, turning over pictures, reaching out, clapping, going ‘Whoooooh’, playing, laughing, concentrating, reading, crawling, kneeling, on all fours, on his side, on his front, on his back, using lift the flaps, not understanding how to use lift the flaps a

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

Following aspects would a

d sleeping. Lots of sleeping.

Our TV screen is also our computer monitor and our screen saver is ‘Photo sideshow’. You would be amazed how often I’ve seen the screen go blank before starting the Tom Show only to think, ‘I’ll just watch the first four or five, see what we

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ave.’ Twenty minutes later and I’m cavorting around the room shouting to Jane to come and see this obscure photo that I had completely forgotten about but which is fantastic. ‘He’s lying there, right, on his sheepskin, yeah, and he’s looking at the camera, yeah, understand

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

and it’s like, well, he clearly knows what’s happening. It’s almost as though he’s waiting to say something. Amazing!’ Of course the reason I feel we haven’t seen the photo for ages is not because it’s been a while but simply because my memory has shortened considerably i

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

the last nine months. I believe it was Holmes who said that the average mind is like an attic; stuffed with useless boxes taking up space until finally there are more boxes than space. The average parent’s mind is more like a small box stuffed with babies. I believe it’s

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

ven harder for mums who spend much of the first few months of a baby’s life feeding, soothing, rocking or cuddling their darling child. Many times now I’ve had to point out to Jane that she was addressing me in baby-talk. ‘Daddy want some stwawbwies now? Mmmm, nice.’ This

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

as while we were watching Desperate Housewives at 9 in the evening, with Tom in bed.

Personally I wanted to buy a camcorder when Tom was born. We compromised (although it is striking how often our compromises reflect Jane’s original wishes) and bought a good digital camer

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

with video capability. You can record for up to three minutes at a time. Coppola apparently had over two hundred hours of footage before he edited Apocalypse Now. Once I thought he was a madman, now I smile at his austerity. I’ve lost track of the times we’ve said, ‘Now t

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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

at’s a photo for his wedding day!’ and meant it. At the rate we’re going, we’ll be hoping that Tom equals at least Liz Taylor’s record or we’ll just not get to show that one, last, special picture. Oh, you know the one, where he stares bemused at the camera and seems to be

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

saying, ‘If you think I’m letting you come to my wedding with that camera you’ve got another thing coming.’

June 24 2006

Dave Fouracre aka "Dave the Dad” is a regular feature writer at http://www.thebabywebsite.com

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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