Full of Articles - Reference and Education

In today’s high-tech society it is important that children develop an interest in science at an early age and see that science is a part of our lives. By becoming comfortable with science at an early age, children can reap many long term be

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

nefits. Getting children interested in science does not take a lot of time and effort. Their natural curiosity will ease the way. Making it fun is the key element. The learning process in children happens through play. During play the world

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

Examples of combination products may in

is not so threatening. Kids feel safe, secure and capable. They explore on their own. There is an old Chinese saying:
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember
I do and I understand.

Information and knowledge gained from han

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

ds- on activities and self discovery remains in the long term memory.

There is no need for a special place or equipment for teaching science to kids. Most of the materials and equipment needed can be obtained in home, school, grocery store

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

or local hardware store. Science activity can be carried out with a single kid or group of kids. It can be carried out whenever you want or wherever you want. For example when there is nothing to do and kids are bored. When the weather outs

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

Combination pro

ide is not friendly. It can be carried out in the kitchen, in the garden, nature hikes, beach trips etc..

Science experiments in our house started in the kitchen. One day when I was baking cookies, my kids were helping. Curious as usual, t

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

ey started asking questions. “Why do we add sugar?” “Why do we add eggs?” “Why do we have to add baking powder?” At that moment a bulb lighted in my head. We made some cookies without baking powder and compared. This became a hobby. We star

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

ted experimenting with lot of things, sometimes purely on impulses. But we sure enjoyed that time. Some examples that quickly come to mind are: a) one day when we were folding laundry, some clothes had static. They made small cracking noise

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

and stuck. We had fun learning and experimenting with lot of other things that produce static electricity. b) When we had gone to the beach we started talking about the sea/ocean water being salty and how salt is extracted from the sea wat

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

er. Kids brought some sea water back home and placed it in sunlight in a shallow tray. In 2-3 days the water evaporated and they collected the salt crystals. The satisfaction in self discovery is incomparable. Without any prompting from me

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

ids also experimented if saltwater freezes faster or tap water.

Looking at their interest, pretty soon me and my friend got together and started doing planned experiments with our children in a group setting. Kids enjoyed them and looked f

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

Following aspects would a

orward to the experiment days. Volcanoes and slimes were a lot of fun. When we did an experiment on coloring daisies, (white daisies if placed in colored water, pick up that color. In a few hours their petals start showing the color in the

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

ater) it did not end there. Pretty soon more flowers got experimented on and then came the question “Why some flowers pick up colors faster than the others?” One day while we were weeding in the garden we had an amusing finding. There were

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

lots of Lady Bugs on one particular type of weed. That led us to the information on how and why certain bugs favor certain plants or animals. Similarly different kinds of rocks found in the garden piqued kids interest and we ended up doing

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

project on rocks.

I was happy to see that I had achieved what I was aiming for: 1) Questioning of observed events leading to finding information. 2) Promotion of independent thinking and reasoning process in the versatile young minds.

Th

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

is first step “Science is fun” can be followed by the next more exciting step, where kids learn that “Science is also an adventure and challenge.” It often requires some detective work and it requires learning of a methodical step by step a

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

proach to solve problems. This approach is called “The scientific method.” The steps in a scientific method can be roughly outlined as follows. 1) If you have to solve a problem start by collecting data. Read books, talk to people, and make

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

observations. 2) Brainstorm- Spend time looking over and understanding the information collected. Have discussions if you are working in a team. 3) Make predictions. 4) Design and carry out experiments. 5) Analyze your results and derive c

.

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

nclusions.

It is a lot more fun to do these activities in a group or as a team. Parents or friends can be very good companions. As kids grow up participation in “science fairs” can also bring a good learning experience. So parents get in

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

volved with your kids science activities and share with them the excitement of being a scientist and an explorer. Kids will know that science can be fun. Once they get interested they will keep thinking, investigating and inventing for ever

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

HTTP = HTML link (for blogs, profiles,phorums):
<a href="http://www.fullofarticles.org.ua/article/223229/fullofarticles-Science-Can-be-Fun.html">Science Can be Fun</a>

BB link (for phorums):
[url=http://www.fullofarticles.org.ua/article/223229/fullofarticles-Science-Can-be-Fun.html]Science Can be Fun[/url]

Why have a dog and bark yourself? Why have an accountant and then worry about depreciation models? Just like you can't ignore Sales or Marketing, you ignore Accounting at your peril!

The Democratic Party is working hard to be able to get all illegal aliens to vote. Howard Dean says that it is unfair to have a law, which requires voters to have and present a picture ID before being allowed to vote. Indiana is has such a law but the Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean

Professional Hospital Unit Coordinator training is available online for working adults who cannot conform to a traditional school setting. Through a distance learning course, students can obtain Hospital Unit Coordinator certification or a degree in Health Care Administration, without commuting to classes.

Tags

Links

Full of Articles - Science Can be Fun

Related Articles: