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It was a pathetic, unprecedented scenario in Germany’s TV channel when Erik Zabel, the cyclist, with tears in his eyes, and an emotionally distorted face, confessed in front of 5,5 million viewers that he had doped with Epo during the Tour de Fr

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

ance in 1996. Tour de France, Giro di Italia, Tour de L?ndle, he was a constant participant for T-Mobile. It was a sensation in Germany because bike-riding has become a sort of Volkssport. And the city of Freiburg, in its perpetual search for a

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

Examples of combination products may in

ttractive titles calls itself the Capital of Cyclists.

Now the entire German nation’s attention is turned upon Jan Ulrich, the cyclist from Merdingen near Freiburg, for he’d done an offensive media campaign to save his skin earlier at B. Kerner

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

’s TV show by repeating: “I repeat, I have never injected epo and have never taken drugs in my life.” A clean German hero? An entire packet with his blood samples were revealed in Spain. Somehow, to viewers in Germany, Jan’s assurances sounded l

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

ike the last words of the politician Rainer Barschel just before his exit. The hollow litany, “Ich versichere Ihnen” echoes still in our ears. Jan’s tour helper Christian Henn who was tested during a doping-control with an overdose of testostero

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

Combination pro

ne values.

Eric Zabel wasn’t alone in his candid confession. Rolf Aldag, the Sport director of T-Mobile also admitted having encouraged the use of Epo as far back as 1995. According to Der Spiegel in the Telekom-team there has been systematic a

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

nd thoroughly doping as in the cases of the entire concurring teams. The Dane Brian Holm also belongs to the list of sportsmen who admitted to doping: Bert Dietz, Christian Henn, Udo B?lts, Rolf Aldag and Erik Zabel. During an ARD-interview Zabe

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

l said: “The generation before us rode their cycles with amphetamines. My generation goes in the history of cycling as the Epo-generation. After the Fuentes-scandal we came to know about the blood-change doping.” The future generation of cyclist

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

s will be the gene-doping generation. The irony of Udo B?lts is that he even wrote a book last year with the title “Qu?l dich, du Sau” (Torture Yourself, You Swine) and posed as a fighter against doping.

Ethics, morale and fairness seem to be c

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

onspicuous through their absence. The basic behaviour seems to be to make money through sport, despite the critic in the media against doping in sport. Doping was tolerated and even supported by the people involved in sporting events in differen

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

parts of Europe. The collective conscience seems to question Erik Zabel’s wet eyes as crocodile tears, and the confession as partial truths, perfectly staged pseudo-transparency. Was it a well-organised show run by ARD, ZDF and N24? Your guess

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

Following aspects would a

is as good as mine.

The worst part of this unfurling scenario is the fact that the University of Freiburg and its Department of Sport Medicine have a reputation to lose, since the media have started calling Freiburg a doping university. “ We’re

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

very worried about the ethical problem,” says the University rector Wolfgang J?ger, and he sees the danger of his elite university being dragged in the swamp of doping. Two medic doctors Lothar Heinrich and Andreas Schmid have been fired and th

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

erapies for sport medicine have been stopped, and an evaluations committee is to look into the matter, which dates back to at least twenty years. The files are all there at the university archive, kept with German thoroughness, perseverance and

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

sense of order. As a German saying goes: lies have short legs, which means you can’t lie to all the people all the time. And Freiburg’s Sport Medicine physicians have been supplying T-Mobile based in Bonn with doping substances since many years,

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

including epo even though it’s against the drug law of the country, sportsmanship and the Code of Hippocrates.

The doctors Heinrich and Schmid have regretted their mistakes through their respective lawyers, and Heinrich went even further to sa

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

y that he’d engage in the fight against doping.

The state attorney of Freiburg has taken over the matter in the case of Heinrich and Schmid and mentioned that the matter regarding doping would not be followed up when it is over five years old.

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

Nevertheless, the state attorney wants to find out whether the Telekom and T-Mobile teams used doping between 2002 and 2007. The university rector has no idea where the doping substances came from and how their were billed by the accounts sectio

.

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

n.

A lot of questions have to be answered and the doping affair timing is wrong, because the university of Freiburg is celebrating its 550 anniversary and Freiburg wants to be recognised as an elite university this autumn. It’s like getting an

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

academic oscar for excellence. The nomination of Freiburg as an elite university will go on, despite the doping scandal. After all, Freiburg is also my Alma mater, and I can only cross my fingers and whisper as we do in Germany: “Toi! Toi! Toi!

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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