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Every reporter dreams of uncovering a major story sometime in his or her career. The 'holy grail' of journalism is to be the first person to report on something that ends u

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

p affecting everyone in some way. In days past, these dreams motivated students of journalism to train and discipline themselves in the art of fact checking and researching

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

Examples of combination products may in

topics. Those days are now officially gone.

The integrity surrounding the art of journalism has severely declined in the last few years. Reporters are now so threatened b

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

y the internet and bloggers, and so eager to break a story, that they routinely avoid the research and fact checking aspect of their job and simply just print whatever soun

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

ds controversial or interesting. Many times the information being printed is so void of any real fact that the source itself will promote a conflicting story in the same da

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

Combination pro

y or same week without even realizing it! An example of such an act is exposed on this very website, in an article from a couple days ago. It's just plain absurd.

One of t

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

he biggest targets of these types of ridiculous press attacks lately has been our own Government. Naturally, this means our Government is also the most common victim of fal

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

lacies or misconceptions being promoted by the press. What is the real motivation behind all this? Are reporters just trying a little too hard to be the next Woodward and/o

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

r Bernstein, or are they actually assisting in the promotion of an anti-Government agenda? Maybe it's a little bit of both.

Whether they know it or not, any journalist who

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

helps promote a fallacy about our President, Government, or other authority figure, is doing serious damage to our Nation as a whole. I'm all for reporters having the righ

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

t to dig up real dirt and expose it, that's what makes having freedom of information so great, but reporters should have an obligation to make sure it's true on all levels

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

Following aspects would a

before reporting it. Once a media outlet passes on a lie or misconception it takes on a life of it's own. No matter how hard you try it can never be retracted. Someone will

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

always believe it to be true. You have to realize that a large portion of the general public believes the average email they get forwarded to their inbox to contain facts,

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

so of course they are going to believe the information they see in print. People don't like to fact check, they expect reporters to do that for them. If a story is printed

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

, the average reader is assuming it to contain factual information. Imagine what this does if said 'factual information' isn't really factual at all.

Many reporters also h

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

ave a personal agenda of their own. Some journalists want to report on a story that validates their own political belief, so their personal faith keeps them from digging a

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

little deeper for the real truth. It's the dictionary definition of "bias." This type of reporting not only confuses the hell out of the general public, who rely on the pre

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

ss for information, but it also creates social distrust and nervousness. This makes us vulnerable as a Nation. Extremely vulnerable.

Everyone knows the best way to destroy

.

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

a super power is to 'divide and conquer.' It's the best war plan ever created.

The question we must now ask ourselves is this:

Is the American media assisting our enemy

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

in dividing us as a Nation? If so, are we allowing it?

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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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