E-DRUG: Clarification on terminology
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[What about medical supplies? BS]
I need one common term be used instead of the 3 words, *medicines. medical
devices and borderline products.*
Can we use the term " medical products" or is there any other better
terminology?
Thank you in advance
Chinta Abayawardana
(Sri Lanka? Please always supply your country and affiliation [Moderator] )
Chinta Abayawardana <chintaab@gmail.com>
E-DRUG: Clarification on terminology (2)
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I propose
Pharmaceuticals and related supplies.
Kind regards,
Naita Nghishekwa
Namibia Ministry of Health
Naita Nghishekwa <naita100@yahoo.com>
E-DRUG: Clarification on terminology (4)
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Please let us use precise terminology to describe different types of products. A medicine or medicinal product need to be authorised or registered at a medicines agency to be marketed. It is necessary for the responsible pharmaceutical company to present data on quality, efficacy and safety.
Medical devices often have only to run through a process of quality assessment and registration. Their "effect" is not pharmacological. Thus products like an artificial hip, a hearing aid, any kind of implant can be defined as medical devices.
I would not replace those terms. When it comes to medical supplies this may "summarise" different products in terms of logistics. Yet, a vaccine requires a different supply approach, some medicines may fall under a specific schedule/regulation and is a control substance.
At the end the reader should know what we are really talking about.
Best regards
Andreas
APOTHEKER HELFEN e.V./German Pharmacists' Aid
Dr. Andreas Wiegand
General Secretary
Maria-Theresia-Strasse 28
D-81675 Munchen
"Andreas Wiegand" <andreas.wiegand@apotheker-helfen.de>
E-DRUG: Clarification on terminology (3)
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Health products has become a common term, this includes medicines,
medical supplies, tests and reagents.
Chiel (M) Lijdsman Kigali - Rwanda
"CHIEL (M) LIJDSMAN" <chiellijdsman@gmail.com>
E-DRUG: Clarification on terminology (5)
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Therapeutic Goods, or Health Products suggested
[Correspondence on this thread is closed now after the wise words from Andreas Wiegand - see Clarification on terminology (4) December 3. BS Moderator]
Dr Syed Khalid Saeed Bukhari,
Chief of Party, USP Pakistan,
Promoting the Quality of Medicines (PQM) Program
Dr Khalid Saeed Bukhari <skhs77@gmail.com>