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Your self confidence inevitably takes a knock when you lose your job – whatever the reason. What I’m going to describe is my version of

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

what I believe you are going through, how it affects you, how it may affect your family or loved ones and what you can do about rebuil

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

Examples of combination products may in

ding your self-confidence.

Job loss is increasingly common – what with cheaper labour in the developing world, new powerful economies

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

such as China and the vagaries of management teams who reassure you all the way to the exit.

If you lose your job through no fault of

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

your own the stresses are almost as powerful as going through a divorce or going to jail. It is one of the most stressful things any pe

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

Combination pro

son can go through, yet not everybody will feel the same things or react in the same way.

When other people have not gone through what

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

you have gone through or are going through they CANNOT possibly understand what you are feeling. Incidentally this also applies

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

to people who are close to us; people who you feel should understand and support you, but they are often affected differently by what

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

has happened to you.

Your pain and anguish is real, your sense of loss tangible.

Your position is similar to bereavem

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

ent, your job was no doubt a large part of you; some would say your job almost becomes your identity and so often we introduce ourselve

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

with
“Hello I’m a finance manager…”

Sadly the reaction of many people who are supposed to be able to help you, including professi

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

Following aspects would a

onal advisors is filtered by their lack of understanding or empathy. If they haven’t been there they don’t REALLY know what it l

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ooks and feels like.

In my case I’ve been there not once but twice so it’s become more familiar than I would have liked, yet this fami

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

liarity is what allows me to offer you some encouragement and advice.

When you are ready – and it will come – take stock of what you’v

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

e got and what you might need to do or learn to get you back into play. If you’re not sure what to do, go to this section of my websit

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

e: http://www.your-career-change.com/career-options.html where you will get more ideas of how to proceed and what to do.

You will grad

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

ally feel more confident and start to be sure of your future; this confidence will feed into your actions and help you to secure the jo

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

b you want.

This is rarely a short term problem, some people may take weeks to go through the transition and many others will take mon

.

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

ths. Some will feel as if they have got through and find themselves back at the start again only to repeat it all.

But take my

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

word – you will get through. You may well come out a stronger person and you even think that it was a good thing that happened.

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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