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I'm going to try to demystify some of the hazy confusion about having an RSS feed on site - and how it differs from having RSS feed items displayed on your site. My previous article, "RSS

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

Feeds Display - The Input Side of RSS", offered a an easy basic way to think about the differences.

What I suggest is to think about RSS in terms of Input and Output. On one hand what c

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

Examples of combination products may in

omes to your site and does something there is input. What originates on your site but is available off your site is output.

When you display RSS feed items on your site, they come from R

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

SS feeds that are found on other sites. You can, with the right feed items display program, collect items from multiple feeds in your market area and display some on your site as new and

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

updating content.

However, when you can also extract content from your site's own pages, build an RSS feed and make it available for syndication - that's output.

Various programs are a

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

Combination pro

ailable which include RSS feeds as part of the created site structure. Most notable are the blogging platforms, though not all produce RSS. Content management systems (CMS) may also pro

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

duce feeds. Some directory and page generation programs also create feeds.

Feeds live on content. A static feed, one where the content is not changing, is not going to do much for your s

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

ite. Feed readers can track items and feed build times. RSS feed directories do the same thing.

Why exactly would you want your own RSS feed? To assist in getting your pages indexed.

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

To reach new customers. To build traffic. To gain backlinks.

These days an RSS feed is becoming an indispensable part of site marketing. The use of RSS readers and aggregators continu

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

es to increase. And it will continue to grow as the use, availability and popularity of RSS-enabled browsers, like FireFox and soon Internet Explorer, increases.

RSS feeds that update a

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

d ping (send a notification of a newly built or modified feed to ping sites such as pingomatic.com, which in turn notifies additional sites) are a draw for spiders, they include deep link

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

Following aspects would a

s to your sites inner pages, they can be picked up and subscribed to by users and syndicated on other sites. You can add them to RSS feed directories for even more exposure.

Unfortunate

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ly there is no single solution that will quickly and easily build an RSS feed for any site. Site structures vary a great deal and many sites will have pages that shouldn't be in the feed.

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

Some sites lack meta keywords and meta descriptions - or the meta descriptions are unsuitable for a feed since they are nearly identical on all pages.

You can use various tools, includ

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

ing some free online tools, to build a feed for your site. This tends to be a time consuming, basically manual process. And would need to be partially redone whenever you update. (You ca

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

search Google for free RSS feed builders).

One reason many people have begun using blogging platforms such as WordPress as their site builder of choice is because the RSS feeds are auto

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

matically constructed and can be pinged each time a post is made. A blogging platform is basically a CMS (Content Management System) and with the variety of templates available - and a l

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

ittle ingenuity and a few plugins - can be an excellent option for site building. And an RSS feed is an integral part of the package.

Whatever type of site you build, an RSS feed is a v

.

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

ery significant asset. While it may be difficult or too time-consuming to add an RSS feed to older sites (at least until a good tool is available), carefully consider your site building c

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

hoices from now on and make sure your choice allows for a live, updating on site RSS feed. You need the edge to compete - and in some cases, just to stay even.

Copyright 2006 Richard Kei

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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