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What Not To Do in Your Cubicle!

Do place pictures of your family, relatives and friends on your desk but limit it to about 4 or 5 pictures maximum. You are not in jail. You will likely see some of these p

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

eople when you go home. A collage of photos on your desk not only makes you look like a daydreamer, but it is very cluttered and a bit inconsiderate. Keep it simple and everyone will be happy. Also, no photos of nude men/women or

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

Examples of combination products may in

anything that is offensive to other colleagues such as vulgar pictures or calendars. Not only is it rude, but you’ll likely have your HR department speaking to you very soon!

It is never okay during office hours to u

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

se your speaker phone! This is loud, distracting and just plain rude! Unless your cubicle has a door and a roof, I don’t recommend this. Use a headset if you would like to be hands-free from the phone while on a conference c

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

all or taking notes on a call. This not only is quiet but it is great for keeping noise out while your are not on the phone and simply just typing or working on a presentation etc.

Do not make personal phone calls to famil

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

Combination pro

y and friends that involve arguing, raising your voice or offering personal details. This is an office, not your living room! You not only look like a fool, but you embarrass yourself and others with this behavior. If you’re

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

really lucky you might even have rumors spread around the office about you.

Don’t send jokes or other junk email at work to your friends or cubicle neighbors. Colleagues are at work to make money and get their job d

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

ne, not read your endless jokes. Never mind being irritating, if your email gets in the wrong hands you will be perceived as a lazy worker and depending on the content of the email, could even be fired!

Never barge into a

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

colleagues’ cubicle! Treat their space as if it was an office with a door. You would need to knock to come in whether the door was opened or closed so a cubicle should be no different. Knock on the desk or gently let the per

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

son know you are there. If they are on the phone, it is a no-brainer, don’t interrupt! I can count the times that people used to come and sit on my desk just to chat. Treat everyone’s space with respect even though you

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

share the same office space.

As a basic rule, keep your voice down. If you are on the phone, great, but remember so is everyone else. Especially if you are just chatting on your lunch hour with a colleague be cognoscente

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

Following aspects would a

of the fact that other people are still working and their schedule is different than yours.

Don’t play music at your desk during working hours. This should seem like an obvious point but I’m surprised at how ma

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ny people do it! With all the music we can download from online services and our own CD’s and of course the radio, many still like to feel as if they are in the comfort of their own home. If you have to listen to music, use

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

a headset! Remember just because you enjoy what you are listening to doesn’t mean the people around you do. So, loud or not-use your ear phones.

Depending on your job role you might be given a cell phone, remember to

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

keep the ringer on low or use the vibrate function. A common complaint in the offices I have worked in is that so-and-so’s phone rings so loud and is distracting. It is always best to use the vibrate setting.

Again,

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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

you need to remember you are not in your living room. Taking off your shoes and roaming the office in your socks, or worse- barefoot is unacceptable office behavior. Not only can it look unprofessional but it can often scare your

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

cube-mates off with the offensive scent. And if you’ve ever thought about it-keep your pink fuzzy slippers at home where they belong!

NO belching, farting, nose picking or flossing your teeth at your desk. Believe it

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

or not, people actually do this! I once went over to a colleagues’ desk and was completely disgusted to find him flossing his teeth! Sadly the washroom was about 6 feet away and he didn’t see what the problem was. I a

.

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

lso encountered a colleague who sat next to me and was caught picking his nose while his friend on the other side caught him and watched for 5 minutes until she burst out laughing. This may sound funny but it is not office etiquet

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

te. The same holds true for farting and belching. Nobody wants to hear this outside of work so why do they want to listen to and smell you? Remember where you are and use the washroom if need be for such bodily functions.

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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