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In a thick British accent, the travel podcast hosts' disembodied voices discuss camping and ‘caravanning’ in the UK, ‘how not to make yourself smell of grease for a complete weekend,’ and the Cocktail of the Week (the Mosquito – a Mojito with a bite!).

The two hosts, who sound a bit like Sean Connery an

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

d Julie Andrews, are bantering about camping spots in the UK and the best kind of cocktails to mix up once you’ve arrived at your prime spot at one of the gorgeous ‘lochs’ on their list.

Welcome to the world of the travel podcast.

Podcasting has come of age in a flash. Less than two years ago, the term

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

Examples of combination products may in

wasn’t even invented. A year ago, there were perhaps 5000 individuals podcasting out of their basements, or from a laptop at a local pancake house.

This year, with major companies joining the podcasting passion and tens of millions of online listeners latching on, podcasting has come of age. So much so,

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

that ‘podcasting’ is the Oxford English Dictionary’s Word of the Year.

When you dip your toe in the podcasting waters, you’ll come up with audio programs that range from exquisitely amateurish and poorly produced, to professionally produced shows with music, sound effects, high-profile guests and thous

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

nds of listeners.

Choosing which podcast is worth listening to is a bit like groping for the light switch in a pitch-black room. You have to knock over a few water glasses and stub your toe before finding one that is helpful to your travel itinerary.

In the past few days, I've listened to travel podcas

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

Combination pro

ts on the best roller coasters in the world, camping and caravanning in the UK, life in Japan for those who aren’t Japanese, life in ru

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

al Australia, budget travel (exploring the world one dollar at a time!), amateur travel, South African travel and tourism information.

And not only are individuals and small businesses jump

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

ing in the travel podcast stew, several travel companies are offering podcasts of their own.

Virgin Travel publishes several travel podcasts at virginatlantic.loudish.com, focusing on the specific locations of Cuba, Capetown, Johannesburg, La

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

Vegas, New York and Shanghai.

iToors.com is home to a gathering of some of the most professional sounding and most informative travel podcasts. Recently I took a travel podcast ‘toor’ of Prague, Czechoslovakia, where Wolfgang Mozart was loved and revered, h

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

is music ‘blowing down a storm.’ When Mozart died in 1791 at the age of 35, only a handful of friends and family showed up in his hometown of Vienna, Austria, and he was buried in an unmarked grave.

In Prague, though (as I learned from the podcast), 4000 people showed up for a funeral mass in St. Nichol

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

s Cathedral, where the Mozart fans were overflowing into the street.

So not only do you pick up history and travelogues in a convenient podcast, you latch on to travel directions, listen to recordings of local bands or musical talents, and eavesdrop on chats with local shopkeepers or politicos.

The bes

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

Following aspects would a

t way to find a travel podcast that suits your desire, whether its for a destination you’re traveling to, or to surreptitiously partake in a local culture, is to navigate online to any podcast directory and do a search for ‘travel’ or directly for your destination.

Since ‘travel’ is a specific genre, by

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

pulling up everything in that category you should be able to easily sift through the myriad of travel podcasts, and find something that suits you.

My favorite podcast directories include:

• Podcastalley.com

•

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

rget="_blank">Podcast.net

• Podcasts.Yahoo.com

• Podfeed.net

• Podcast411.com

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

lank">PodcastPickle.com

• DigitalPodcast.com

• And of course, iTunes music software

You don’t need a portable MP3 player such as an iPod to listen to podcasts, think of the freedom you’

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

d have while strolling the Champs D'Elysee, listening to the history of the famous Arc D'Triomph on your headphones. You may get a few goofy looks, but only from the tourists who just wish they had downloaded a few travel podcasts to carry along with them on their travels!

Listening to and subscribin

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

to podcasts: a podcast is nothing more than an audio file (generally an MP3 file) that is distributed or published via an RSS file. RSS (which stands for Really Simple Syndication) is an online distribution tool that allows content to be delivered to your computer without the need for navigating to

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

a website or downloading your email.

As the development of RSS technology progressed, it became possible to include ‘enclosures’ in the RSS feed, such as audio files.

With this technology, MTV pioneer Adam Curry helped pioneer the burgeoning phenomenon of podcasting in late 2004. By summer of 2005, App

.

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

e had incorporated the ability to subscribe to podcasts in its popular iTunes music software, which literally turned podcasting into a mainstream medium overnight (within 48 hours of the release of the podcast subscription capability, Apple announced that over a million of its users had subscribed to pod

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

casts).

The easiest way to subscribe to a podcast is to use your iTunes software, although there are other podcast ‘aggregators’ (as they’re referred to in geektown), such as Juice and PodSpider

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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