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Just imagine...if the iPhone turns out to be as cool, as user-friendly, as reliable, and down-right revolutionary as the iPod...th

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

en my 60GB video iPod will one day soon be as relevant to my life as the hundreds of CDs that I've digitized to get rid of them.

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

Examples of combination products may in

little convoluted, perhaps, but my point is simple: Before the iPod, it was CDs, and CD players (I had a friend with something li

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

ke a 12-disc changer and he was like a god to us audiophiles), and making sure your car had a CD player, and portable CD players.

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

Then came the iPod, and it was like, "Hold on, now! I can store all those CDs I've been so careful not to scratch (and remember ho

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

Combination pro

awful it was when you were dumb enough to let someone borrow one of your CDs and it was returned blemished??) on this little thin

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

g?" As soon as I was able to listen to it without the pesky earbuds, man, it was heaven. Still is.

Every day as I get ready for w

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

rk, there are 3 things I don't leave home without: my coffee mug, my Palm Treo, and my 60GB video iPod. I'm like a modern-day cowb

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

oy walking into the office with both of my six-shooters on my sides (one in each pocket making my pants sag a bit).

Steve Jobs an

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

the wizards as Apple must've been reading my mind: Can't it be simpler? Why can't I talk into my iPod?

Very shortly, we'll all b

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

able to.

Here's the low-down on what will likely be the product that coasts Apple into the next decade:

* 4-8GB storage makes i

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

Following aspects would a

t a solid little mp3 and video player;

* 2.0 megapixel camera -- I'm no Amsel Adams, but I'm guessing you can take a great pi

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

of your best friend snarfing nachos on game day with this thing;

* As a cell phone it will have all the standard bells and w

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

histles: calling (duh), voice mail, SMS, which allows you to text, email, and surf the Web;

* Bluetooth, for you wireless fre

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

ks out there

* And best of all, in my opinion, it's going to work on the Apple OS X platform. What this means for the uniniti

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

ted, for those of you who are still using PCs (I have one myself, so I get it), is that for *free* you'll get the coolest, more se

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

amless, full-of-fun operating system on the planet.

On that note, my guess is this: If Apple can sell an iPhone to half of th

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

iPod users on the planet, and they get used to Apple OS X, it will create a sea change in the computer market. Apple will sell mo

.

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

re computers, regardless of price, because people who've never handled a Mac -- and aren't brave enough to enter the totally remar

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

able, awe-inspiring, yet daunting Apple retail stores -- will finally get to see what the other 13% know: that Apple is the future

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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