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After battling the sea for nine years, it's time to move on. That's what I told myself when I first stepped ashore to search for a land job. The decision was not made on the spur of a moment but after much thought and soul searching.

While I was working aboard ship, many of us talked about working ashore some day. I heard people saying they were quitting and then

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

much later, I would find them on another ship. My conclusion -- many have tried to quit, but very few have succeeded.

Whenever I see older seamen on my ship, I feel a bit of pity for them. I can feel their frustrations. And I know exactly what they will face over the coming six to nine months.

They will face the rigors of the sea and extreme climatic conditions,

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

Examples of combination products may in

such as huge waves, strong winds, icy cold and hot weather, the boredom and loneliness when nothing much happens, seasickness and insomnia when encountering heavy weather for weeks on end, and of course, missing the home and the family as well as missing out on the many other things that a normal life can offer.

But it's not really a bad life at all if you are stil

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

young. It's a life that can offer many exciting experiences and adventures, a lot of traveling, and sightseeing in places that can be far off the normal tourist routes. It can be a very satisfying experience. I still have fond memories of my experiences while working on board ship.

When I first started sailing, I collected souvenirs from all the countries that

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

I visited. After a while, these started collecting dust and I had to get rid of them. Furthermore, I found that some of these souvenirs were actually made in other countries.

That made me decide to take photographs as my souvenirs. I now have almost 3,000 colour slides of my travels.

What can I do with these? Well, some of the images have been accepted by a stock

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

Combination pro

photo agency, but this is just a small portion of my collection.

I was seriously into photography at that time and even bought an expensive SLR camera with a set of interchangeable lenses so that I could take good quality photographs. I even sold a few photographs to some magazines during that time.

When I realised that my photographs were being published to suppo

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

rt articles in the magazines, I started to take up writing.

After that my articles were published in the local newspapers and magazines. But that was a very long time ago when computers were practically unknown.

Even after I quit the sea, my experiencees on board ship made a lasting impression on me. I still wanted to explore new places. I was fascinated by comp

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

ters when they made their debut in 1987. These had the 80286 processor, I remember.

A colleague taught me how to use the Lotus 1-2-3 software and I was delighted with what I could do with it. I was able to created graphs with this WYSIWYG program.

But computers were expensive and not very affordable at that time. I still had to hammer on the keys of my trusty port

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

able typewriter to produce any work.

I moved on to other jobs later, but my fascination with computers continued. Being an engineer, I was very much interested in creating engineering piping diagrams. I learned to do AutoCAD drawings that were very much better than the ones I had to do during my college days with pencil, T-square, eraser and paper.

Later on when

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

I was introduced to the Internet, my interest practically shot right through the ceiling. There was so much information available. At about that time, I decided to build a boat for myself. (It was a dream that I had been keeping in my head since the time I took up sailing during my college days.) So I began to search the Internet and discovered how other people bu

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

ilt boats. The whole project took about three months of research and manual labour.

The result was a custom-built kayak that was carefully crafted for speed, manoeuvrability, portability, and durability. And specially built to suit my weight and the length of my legs.

I had experienced the power of the Internet. And I love it.

Being trained in marine engineering en

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

Following aspects would a

ables me to be flexible in using technology or any other tools available in order to get the job done. You see, when working on board a ship, we were expected to make do with whatever materials were available to solve problems. There were no contractors that you could call in to help, in the middle of the ocean.

Anyway, I later decided to learn web designing. I fo

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

nd this quite interesting. And once I delved into web designing, many other subjects also caught my attention. Search engine optimisation, designing for fast loading, html language, marketing, affiliation, advertisements, writing effective sales copy, etc, just crept up along the way.

I even made my own website about marine engineering.

Then I stumbled into e-book

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

s and e-zines. I found some of these very interesting, and I started to mess around with them. Eventually, I produced my first e-book entitled "Sign Off -- A Guide to Career Success on Shore".

Now I am into self-publishing and I can publish whatever I want. I shall not receive piles and piles of rejection slips anymore. As an author-publisher, I can also design m

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

own illustrations and layout in whatever way I think best, and most important of all, I don't have to spend money on printing, paper, binding and whatever else.

I can also pass around my e-book to people in the form of downloads and e-mail attachments or even CDs. Unlike webpages, people don't even have to be online in order to read my book. I believe that we ar

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

e in this world to be a blessing to others. Whatever experiences that I have gone through need not be wasted but can be used to help somebody somewhere. That's why I wrote my e-book.

Also, being involved in a 34-week "Becoming Disciples through Bible Study" programme for the past three years, I have come to realise that by giving we receive.

With that in mind, I s

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

arched through the memory bank in my brain, and also my notes, and found that I have many things to share with people. After going through many years of working experiences on land, I think it is worthwhile to share some of the experiences I have with those who are contemplating switching jobs.

Just like the photographs that are gathering dust in my home, these e

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

xperiences should not stay in my memory or storeroom and be lost forever. I should leave something behind to benefit future generations. So I quickly got my stuff together and started writing the e-book. It took me about three months of free time to complete.

Most of the visitors have an interest in life on board ship, but the e-book I wrote is about working ashore

.

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

So that makes the information relevant to anyone else too.

E-books have the potential to spread marketing messages to potential buyers. They can also be instruction manuals for users, for displaying products as catalogues, for publicising services, and a thousand other uses. The outcome of any tool depends on the one who wields it. It only takes a good writer wi

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

th a flair for IT, marketing concepts and visual communications copywriting and design to make it work.

Below are some useful items that I have picked up in my journey on the Internet:

Eliminating Spam
Viral Protection

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

The Guardian recently reported on an interesting survey conducted among graduating students. The questions were the typical range, asking what type of profession the graduates would be seeking, expected salary ranges and primary concerns in taking on a position. The results, though, showed a seawater change in some basic attitudes among the up and coming generation when it comes to priorities. This generation of graduates has displaced money as a prime motivating force when choosing a firm for which they wish to work. Instead, most of the students surveyed stated that their primary concern in choosing a firm would be the ethics of the company. This is of particular interest when the graduates in question are seeking audit jobs, whose very profession deals with ethics on an everyday basis.

You cannot make an important amount of money just moving fingers. You cannot built a profitable business without working many nights.You need hard work, good luck and inspiration, but the truth is you cannot achieve good results without having a plan, because the key to the success in any venture is the effective marketing.

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