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It all started with Sidney Crosbys father Troy who gave him a little hockey stick at the age of 2! With this stick

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

Sidney played around and ”practiced” daily in the basement of their house. Allthough he was just 2 years old he already st

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

Examples of combination products may in

arted loving playing with the little stick and a tennis ball.

I personally think this gave him a big advantage to many ot

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

her three year-olds when he finally started playing for a little hockey club in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as he had already le

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

arned the basics of stick-handling. Which lead to him to outplaying five-six years-old kids while himself being just three

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

Combination pro

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Sidney would everyday on the winter season go down to the local hockey-rink and just play even if it wasn’t for a team,

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 just couldn’t be away from hockey! And this was when he was just around five years-old!

When joining teams he really

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

outshine everyone he faced, which encouraged both him and parents to just get more involved in the game of hockey. This le

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

ad him to play with 17 year-olds while himself just being 14 (!).

At just the age of 15, Sidney Crosby tried to enter the

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

QMJHL, but was denied because of his young age. He had to wait one year. So at 16 he was picked up by hockey team Rimou

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

ski Oceanic, where he had a remarkable season opener, getting 8 points on the first game! He continued to dominate the lea

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

Following aspects would a

gue and won the MVP (most valuble player) Trophy easily. At 17 he played one more year for the same team, and to no ones s

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

uprise he was even better this season getting 168 points compared to 135 in his first year.

After this success in QMJHL,

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

Sidney Crosby was an obvious number one choice for the NHL draft in the summer of 2005. Pittsburgh Penguins won the draf

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

t-lottery, which meant that was the team Sidney Crosby would play for. And as you probably know Sidney Crosby had a phenom

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

enal first season getting 104 points! And his second year looks like to be another great year for him, in just 19 games so

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

far he has 30 points!

Looking back on how he got from being just a kid to where he is today, I think the biggest factor

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

of him being so successful was his love for the game at such an early age. This really got him a head start to other kids

.

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

to improve and just get confidence and enjoy the game even at that early age. Then another huge factor was his parents, wh

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

o really supported him while growing up, he mother Tina even worked extra shifts just for money to pay Sidney’s equipment.

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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