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Well so now you kind of like, are in love, or are obsessed with RSS. Those little orange buttons are all over and you want to put one up in your web site or Blog or on your wall. That is cool, and it will demand

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

a bit of technical knowledge, some writing, some research and some frustration. So here are the major steps to publishing your RSS feed and giving all that information to the world at large, which I will discuss

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

Examples of combination products may in

n depth with examples in this series of articles. Right now we will outline these steps.

1. Sit back, STOP! & Think. (How is that for step one?)

a. Do you have information that should or would

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

go into an RSS file? Remember that the unwritten rules of RSS is that you must update the file with "new" and more "current" information if not hourly or daily, but at least on a fairly common basis. No one is g

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

ing to want to keep your RSS in their reader if the information they see every day for the next month is exactly the same as the day before it.

b. Additionally, though some people do this, it really is

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

Combination pro

NOT good practice to put long essays into an RSS feed. What you want is the first line or description of an object, idea or news. Hook the person so he clicks on the topic in his reader, reads the summary, clicks

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

again and finds himself on your web page.

c. Do you have the time to do it? There are millions of Blogs out there that were started with the best of intentions. One entry, two entries, three entries. An

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

d then they die. Why? Because the author/owners simply had no clue about the dedication demanded and time needed to update their Blogs on a regular basis. They also had no idea just how difficult he competition w

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

s to get people to read those Blogs. The same is true with RSS. You start a feed to get readers, or to pass on information to the web. You need to understand this is going to take time and patience and work. This

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 not a one-time one-shot one-pie-in-the-sky deal.

2. Your depth of Technical knowledge

You will need to become familiar with the following terms and understand them and perhaps learn some

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

ery simple things in how to program them.

HTML

Atom

RSS Readers

RSS Parsers

RSS Validation

3. Now begin

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

Following aspects would a

s the Actual WORK!

a. Preparing the file - You will need a template RSS file (for the sake of these articles it will be called rss.xml though it can have any name you choose as long as it is in xml

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

format.) Unless you are good enough to write one yourself this is critical.

b. Understanding the Template and what information goes where

c. Putting the information into the template - Each pi

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

ece of information you have will go into specific [headers] and you must understand the RSS structure in the XML file to get that right.

d. Validating the Template - A crucial aspect. Unlike HTML, RSS i

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

very, very, let me say this again, very unforgiving. It does not like deviations from the norm or from the basic format laid down. Getting it right can be the most trying and frustrating part of the process.

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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

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4. Okay now you wrote the RSS file, your XML file is ready and validated. Now what? Guess you think you are done. Think again.

a. You will have to place the rss.xml file on your web si

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

e or somewhere on the web where people can get to it.

b. Now you can steal, get, copy, make - whatever you choose - your own little XML/RSS or RSS - Valid button.

c. Hyperlink your file to t

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

he RSS

d. Submit your file under the correct category to RSS directories.

5. How many people will pick up your RSS? I will discuss this as well in a later article, but surprisingly,

.

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

he answer here is still very vague. There are some ways of tracing the numbers, but none are foolproof, and most are very convoluted.

6. Go and get a good night's sleep cause tomorrow you are going to have to

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

start the process of adding information to your RSS (or changing it) all over again!

(This is a continuation from my first article on RSS - "RSS Mania Addiction - An Introduction to RSS and the Terminology"

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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