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For many of us, the Internet is a mecca of free things. From free MP3 downloads to free ring tones to free porn to free screensavers. “Free”
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
i> is a favorite word of Internet users who readily combine it with just about anything. Free anything is the motto, it seems.
No doubt t
; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in
e Internet is democratizing everything, and astrology is no exception here.
Enter online horoscopes, the unlikely but exciting intersection
lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

between technology and astrology.

When was the last time you checked your horoscopes?
Did you find yourself nodding? Did you w
here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe
sh to go the other way, and in effect prove your horoscope wrong? Or perhaps you can't help but wonder how it is that a few lines of general-sound
d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro
ng prescriptions and cautions can be so predictive. And tempting.
Horoscopes' appeal to people is not just because they are free, that the
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
y are widely available in dailies and magazines and on the Net too. Nuggets of advice just waiting for us to look into them. And we, well, we are
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
inquisitive creatures, forever curious about the future, not just ours, but other's as well—our loved ones' perhaps, friends', enemies', anyone we
nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically
ome in contact with. We just have to take a peek.
Horoscopes offer us a neat capsule of our fate. They're there, for free, and there is
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
certainly is no harm in consulting them, so much the better if things turn out well because of them.

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ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi
one Else But free horoscopes aren't always the best. Daily horoscopes found at the newspapers and in the Internet may be free, but unfortuna
ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a
ely this virtue is also their weaknesses. The price people pay in getting free horoscopes is the fact that they share the same predictions with ev
dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod
eryone else who shares their star sign.
The principle of Barnum Effect operates in this scenario. Quite bluntly, the Barnum Effect s
cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin
ates that “there is a sucker born every minute.” In the realm of astrology, this means people can be so gullible as to believe that their horoscop
tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen
for the day applies to them perfectly, even if virtually anyone can claim that.
Daily horoscopes, in fact, are deliberately prepared by as
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
trologers to make them apply to almost anyone, so that it serves as sneak previews for the day. Of course, the astrologer doesn't sacrifice the qu
ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust
lity of divination.
For more accurate horoscopes though, the astrologer needs to study and calculate alignments of the stars and planets, bi
y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products
th date and location, cusps, aspects, patterns, and relationships with other signs in the Zodiac.
Needless to say, these crucial factors are
.

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
all absent in the generic horoscopes we get for free in newspapers. Truly predictive horoscopes then are those that are personalised and tailor-f
elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
tted to individuals, carefully prepared by a credible astrologer. They may come with a price, but it is a price always worth it.

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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