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Welcome to part 2 of the article that aims to give you just enough information to help you understand RSS and start using it.

Part 1 gave you simple instructions on how to read and subscribe to an RSS site fe

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

ed, part 2 will give you simple instructions on how to publish your own.

Firstly, which websites can benefit from a site feed? Well, pretty much all of them.

If you provide a service, you could use a site

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

Examples of combination products may in

eed to announce amendments and upgrades.

If you sell stuff, you could use a site feed to announce new products and special offers.

And if you own a website or web log that is regularly updated with news of

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

any description, a site feed is virtually a necessity.

Site feeds may not be exactly commonplace at present but don’t doubt for a moment that their popularity is growing. If you get a site feed up and running

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

now, you’ll be ahead of the game for some time to come and offer a friendly alternative to email communication.

Site feeds are usually written in a code called XML. If you view the code for a site feed it wil

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

Combination pro

look a little like HTML.

You could:

-- Learn the language and write your own site feed. Each time you want to add an update, just update your site feed page.

-- Buy some fancy software that writes and

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

updates the site feed for you.

-- Or… setup a site feed online that automatically updates, for free in about 20 minutes.

Third option sound good? Ok, start by setting up your own blog at

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

href="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger.

This is free to do and, if you want, they will even host it for you in exchange for a couple of banners at the top of the blog. The great thing about Blogger is that

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

it works in tandem with the Google Toolbar.

Found a website you want to note in your blog? Click the icon in your Google Toolbar and it’s taken care of.

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

Everytime you add or change something on your website, record it in your blog so individuals and search engines viewing your blog can be made aware of it.

The other great thing about Blogger is that it autom

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

tically creates and updates a site feed for you. Everytime you post a message to your blog, this is added to your site feed as well.

You can get the address of your site feed from the Blogger control panel by

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

Following aspects would a

visiting the section marked "Settings" and selecting "Site Feed".

Now you know the web address of your site feed, you are free to add it to your homepage, submit it to RSS directories, anything you want.

B

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

t wait, before you rush off, you’ll want to know how to track visits to your site feed.

This bit is even easier. Just convert your site feed address into a FeedBurner address.

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

dburner.com">www.feedburner.com and enter the address of your site feed into the box marked "Feed URL:", then click "Next >>".

Play around with some of the options and at the end of it you will have a new

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

site feed address that looks something like this:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/yourwebsitename Now advertise this site feed address ins

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

ead of the site feed address Blogger gave you. It will do exactly the same thing, except now you can login to FeedBurner and view statistics on how often your site feed page is visited.

Among other things, Fe

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

dBurner will also:

-- Dress your site feed up so when someone views it in their normal internet browser it will explain what it is instead of just showing the source code.

-- Tweak the code of your site s

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

it can be read by all RSS readers, even those that only support ATOM.

All done? Let's recap:

You now know how to identify, view and subscribe to an RSS feed.

You now have a blog you can submit to blo

.

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

directories that allows people and search engines to see updates to your website.

And you have a site feed address you can submit to RSS directories and advertise on your website. Visitors to your website ca

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

subscribe to your feed and never miss anything new you have to offer.

And you thought this would be hard? Next week, understanding quantum theory and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in five easy steps.

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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