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We've talked about how you can use anti spam software to kill spam once it reaches you.

But what can you do to become invisible to spam in the first place?

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

Turns out there are couple of techniques that are pretty easy to implement. Make a habit of these and you'll be a much harder target for spammers to hit.<

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

Examples of combination products may in

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Use more than one email address.

The first one should be for immediate family and friends.

The second, for business contacts

The t

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

hird should be for everything else. And not only that: this one should be disposable.

What is a disposable email address?

When you give a web s

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

ite your (disposable) email address, you are giving them an “alias” that corresponds to your main address. By default, all aliases of your email address for

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

Combination pro

ard your mail to that real address. But only you know that. The web site that sends mail to the alias only has that address -- and not your real one.

So he

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

re’s what you do…

Use a separate disposable address at each different site. That way if (or when) the spam comes in, you know exactly where it came from. T

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

hen, if you like, you can simply shut that alias down -- and the spam that goes with it.

One downside: What to do if you get some valuable email too, like

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

a newsletter? There's no easy answer to that: with a disposable address, it’s all or nothing from that site. But at least you've identified where the spam i

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

s coming from and you've isolated it to a large degree.

Disguise your email address.

Instead of signing your comment at a blog with John@Doe.com, do t

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

is instead:

John@NO_SPAM_Doe.com

The spam robot (“or spambot”) will harvest a useless address. On the other hand, the humans will simply remove the extra

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

Following aspects would a

words to reach you.

Ignore "Delivery Failure" of any message that you didn't personally send. Whenever you see this kind of email, there's a good chan

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ce that you are seeing the outcome of a virus running wild.

For example...

Imagine that a virus has infected your Aunt Maureen's PC. Maybe it is sending o

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

ut hundreds of infected emails to everyone in her address book. It happens. What you don't know is that perhaps YOUR NAME is on the FROM: line.

Why?

Becau

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

se the spammer wants to hide where the spam is coming from. If every email has Aunt Maureen's name on it, it's too easy to track it down and stop it. If, on

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

the other hand there is a different name on each spam, it is much harder to stop.

Which brings us to you, the innocent bystander. Some of these emails will

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

be going to email addresses that are no longer in service. Some of them might be going to email boxes that are full. Whatever the case may be, the email ca

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

nnot be delivered. And because your name is listed as the "return address," you'll receive a notification of delivery failure.

As long as you aren't gettin

.

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

g hundreds of these messages in a single day (or hour!), you can safely ignore it.

[Note: If you ARE getting that many, you might want to scan your PC for

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

viruses and spyware. The spam could be coming from you.]Unless the message is from someone in your address book, assume it is spam.

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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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