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According to Don Evett, in his spam Statistics 2006, 40% of all email in 2006 was considered spam. Evett predicts that the amount of spam will increase 63% in 2007. Of

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

the spam received in 2006, 19% of total spam messages (2.5 billion messages daily) were pornographic in nature. So what can you do to protect your email address from all of th

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

Examples of combination products may in

se spammers? Below are eleven simple ways you can help lessen the negative impact of spam on your computer as well as the Internet:

1. Don’t unsubscribe to “subscription” emails fro

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

sources you didn’t subscribe to by using their “unsubscribe” link. Simply add the email address of their entire domain to your inbox blacklist. Many spammers will use this “u

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

nsubscribe” link as a means of verifying that your email address is real and then turn around and provide it to other spam marketers for money.

2. Do not click on the links of an em

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

Combination pro

il claiming to be from a famous organization, unless you have contacted them first and are expecting a reply. Clicking on these links can cause drive-by downloads of viruses o

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

even barrages of pornographic Pop-ups.

3. Never publish your email address online. Don’t put it on an online resume’, contact page or homepage. There are “spiders” continuously cra

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

wling the net looking for email addresses to add to their spam mailing lists.

4. Keep your computer clean. Run a virus checker with an updated virus database da

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

ly. Many viruses are written explicitly to harvest email addresses from your computer and then spam those people in your name.

5. Don’t fall for “phishing” email schemes. Mes

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

ages claiming to be from Western Union, Paypal and other financial institutions promising account closure and balance forfeiture if the user does not click on “confirm” or “verify”

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

ccount links are a sure sign of a phishing scam. Once the user clicks on these links (that look legitimate, they are taken to a fake (but real looking) site asking for credit

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

Following aspects would a

card information, password details, etc… Legitimate, honest companies will never send an email asking you to click on an enclosed link to save your account from shutting down.

6. Ne

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

er participate in an online forum site, if they post your email address to their site. If you find a site that does not disguise your email address, let the administrator know

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

they are helping serve email addresses to spammers.

7. Set up a separate email address dedicated to only Internet transactions. Use a free email service for this and keep you

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

r primary email address private. If you are getting too much spam at your free address, simply delete it and create a new one.

8. Watch out for pre-checked boxes. Many

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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

companies will use pre-selected checkboxes defaulted to indicate your approval to sell or give away your email address to third parties.

9. Don’t forward chain e-mail messages. Some

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

spammers actually start chain letters to gather email addresses. When you forward chain email messages, you lose control over your email address and may further a hoax, aid in a p

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

hishing scam or help spread a virus also.

10. Whenever you send email to a large group of people, always use the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) address field instead of To. When

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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

you BCC your message, everyone else viewing the message cannot see the addresses of the other recipients. This simple method will help protect your friend’s email addresses from bein

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

unknowingly spammed.

11. Make sure you use an antivirus product with a powerful built-in spam filtering device like Stop-Sign Internet Security.

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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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