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After reading the article “How to Publish on a Shoestring Budget” by Sid Smith*. According to Sid Smith, i

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

f you are wonder about the best way to publish your book, then...

“Write an outstanding, must-r

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

Examples of combination products may in

ad book that is unique, provocative, controversial, a literary masterpiece, or is endorsed by someone like O

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

prah. No, really. That's the best way to publish a book.”

While this may very well be true, it

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

is not necessarily the road traveled by many first-time authors or authors who really want to self-publish h

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

Combination pro

is or her work. However, as I continued to read his article some particular facts jumped from the screen. O

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

e particular piece of information I was lead to ponder as a writer was...

“Even if they do ask

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

how to publish a book, they're still thinking in terms of publishing their best seller before they've even d

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

termined if there is a market for the book!”

As writers, we tend to believe that if we write a

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

book, of course there is a market for it, and as a Success Coach, I must slightly disagree with the stateme

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

t...”if there is a market for the book.” The truth is we live in the information age. Even if we write a b

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

Following aspects would a

ok about buying the best kind of scrap wood for birdhouses, there just may be a market for it. However, the

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

questions that come to mind are many and this is where we tend to fall short.

1) How big is the Market?

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

2) How do I reach the market?
3) How big is the submarket?
4) What distribution channels will wo

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

rk best?

So, as I get ahead of myself, I realize some important factors that must be on the forefront o

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

every writer’s mind if he or she wants to act like a best-selling author. That is...do the market research

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

before you publish the book, especially if you are writing a non-fiction book.

In fact, to explore this fu

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

ther, I would suggest to every writer who self-publishes to develop a book proposal as if he or she were goi

.

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

ng to send it to a big name publishing company like Harper-Collins. Don’t short change yourself. Write an

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

xcellent book proposal and from that book proposal you will have answered the above question and many others

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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