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An RSS feed is created in a non-HTML format called XML. RSS readers or aggregators can interpret and display that coding, but Web browsers can't. Soon, RSS/X

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

ML readers will be part of every browser and e-mail software. But for now, you need a separate reader.

You use an RSS reader to bring new, constantly update

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

Examples of combination products may in

d material to you, from all your favorite sites. There is no need to check whether a site has updated.

RSS feeds bring automatically updated information str

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

aight to your desktop. You can monitor news, job listings, personals, and classifieds. Thousands of sites now offer feeds, which you can identify by a small o

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

range button that says either RSS or XML. However, if you click one of these links, you will most likely get a page full of code in your browser. To properly

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

Combination pro

read the feed, you need an RSS reader.

Content published in an RSS feed is typically set up to send out notifications whenever new material is available. This

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

makes the new content immediately available to feed readers and RSS search engines. Contrast this with ordinary web pages, which are essentially passive and g

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

enerally aren't accessible to most of us until search engine crawlers find and index them. Once indexed, these pages stand relatively little chance of being r

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

ead by web searchers on a frequent basis.

Instead of opening your Web browser when you sit down at the computer, you open your news feed reader, usually a 2-

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

or 3 paned window that allows you to see at a glance which sites have added content, and to scan clickable headlines and summaries of that content. Imagine lo

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

oking at update info on 10-20 sites at a single glance, and never waiting for a single page to load!

RSS Tools You Need

Here is a collection of some

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

Following aspects would a

of the most popular newsreaders for reading article feeds, news etc

Newsreaders | Aggregators

Win users

1. RssReader (http://www.rssreader.com

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

). It's free!
2. BlogExpress (http://www.usablelabs.com/productBlogExpress.html)
3. If you want to try several before deciding (http://www.2rss.co

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

m/readers.php)

The most important point about RSS newsreaders is that they should be fast and simple to download, install, and start adding feeds. If it's

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

not, find one that does.

Mac users

4.NetNewsWire has a free trial and is the best of a smaller selection.(http://ranchero.com/netnewswire)

5. My Yaho

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

o (http://my.yahoo.com)

6. MSN (http://my.msn.com)

How to Get Started With RSS

Simply right-click on the orange RSS button (control-click for Mac user

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

s) for each feed that interests you. Select Copy Shortcut ("Copy Link to Clipboard" for Mac; "Copy Link Location" if you use Firefox browser) then paste that

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

URL into your RSS Reader.

And that's it! You're subscribed.

(If you prefer, click on the My Yahoo! or My MSN buttons to add each feed to "Your" Yahoo! or MSN.

.

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

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Now you have the ability to quickly scan the sites that interest you without being bombarded by unwanted email messages.

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip
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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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