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This afternoon I realized the inevitable: lemonade stands just aren’t effective anymore. Now, I understand that “anymore” is a confusing term. I c

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

ould be noting that lemonade stands were effective up until this morning, or I could be noting that they haven’t been effective since the invention

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

Examples of combination products may in

of refrigeration. But none of that matters. All I know is that I have no plans in the near future to buy lemonade from a stand, especially while s

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

tting. And it is primarily because the kids who run lemonade stands maintain business practices that are, quite frankly, too good. Here are some e

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

xamples:

No tax — Kids very rarely add tax to their lemonade prices. Some may argue that it’s because they are already charging 50 cents for a gla

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

Combination pro

s of water with a lemon and hand residue on it, or because their Fisher-Price registers do not know how to calculate tax, but I’d rather give them 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 benefit of the doubt.

Easy return policy — It’s very easy to get your money back if you don’t like the lemonade. But the reality is, you’d have

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

to be a creep to make that request. Telling a kid you don’t like the lemonade is like slapping the kid in the face — twice! The first would be fo

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

the insult and the second would be because you are a stranger who shouldn’t be talking to him. But essentially the return policy is an effective o

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

ne: if you want your money back, you can just stick your hand in the envelope and take it back. I think this policy would work well with fast-food

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

estaurants, but then they’d have to add a button with a picture of a “return” on it, and it’s hard to draw that.

Cheap advertising — Lemonade adver

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

Following aspects would a

tising consists of an old piece of cardboard with the price on it (the price of the lemonade, that is — not the cardboard). No celebrity endorsemen

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ts. No commercials. No coupons. Ah, if only e-mail could say the same these days!

Sympathy — I don’t like having to feel sympathy for a business

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

Frankly, it should usually be the other way around. But in the case of lemonade stands, the kids will tell you that the money is being used to sa

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

ve up for something as big as a globe, or maybe for an actual globe. This leads many people to buy the product without actually wanting it. If thi

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

principle was evident with every other business, we’d all be wearing those hats with the straws connected to them, and we’d all be sleeping on Craf

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

tmatic adjustable beds.

In summary — for those who like to summarize — lemonade stands are a lesson to businesspeople all around the world. People

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

can say all they want about the value of business schools. But I say the best business school is the one that begins with “lemon,” ends with “ade,

.

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

and has a whole lot of nothing in between. So I’ll stay away from these stands because I know what’s good for me… and because I don’t want to tak

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

e away the spotlight from my own lemonade stand. Speaking of which, it is time to unplug the light before the neighbors complain ...

But I digress

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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