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When I was in graduate school I wasn’t contented accepting the paltry salary I earned as a part-time college instructor.

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

So, I trekked to USC’s career planning office and scanned the part-time job postings.

One caught my eye.

It was a comm

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

Examples of combination products may in

ssion-only job selling office supplies by phone.

Having had many years of experience in telephone sales and management,

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

I thought, why not? Anything I earned would be an improvement on my fixed income.

So, later that day I stopped over for

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

n interview and I was asked if I wanted to try the gig, to make a call or two.

“Sure!” I replied, knowing they wanted to

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

Combination pro

hear if I was as good as advertised.

I noticed that the fellow I had been listening to was selling ballpoint pens to bak

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

ers, a gross at a time, so I borrowed his list, which was a Yellow Pages directory, and I called the next name.

To every

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

ne’s astonishment, I closed the deal on the spot, earning about $18 for two minutes of work.

Of course, I was, and still

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

am, great on the phone, but that’s not the point of this article!

There was another key to success that is less obvious

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

whom I chose to call. In this case, I imitated what the veteran did, and I called a baker.

When I was officially hired,

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

I found my own category: restaurants. Between using them and losing them, they burned through thousands of pens per year,

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

Following aspects would a

by my calculations, and I was right.

I made a very nice supplemental income for a considerable time after that, calling

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

cafes around the country.

At one point, the boss asked me how I settled on restaurants, somewhat surprised, yet still pl

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

eased that I had discovered their appetite for writing devices.

I didn’t reply this way in so many words, but I can tell

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

you, it was in large measure because nobody else was selling them ballpoint pens.

I occupied the high ground on the comp

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

titive battlefield because my army was the only one that showed up, day in and day out.

I bought pens at 17 cents from t

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

he company and resold them at 33 cents, and I pitched them, two gross (288 pens) at a time. The pens were marked 49 cents

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

on the barrel, so my customers perceived they were getting a bargain.

But here’s what’s essential. There was no Gary-com

.

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

petitor coming in at 30 cents or 25 cents or at any price at all.

If you can choose your prospects, go where nobody else

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

is asking for the deal.

They’ll have less sales resistance. You’ll encounter no competition, and everybody will be happy

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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