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Perpetrators only hours after the Virgina Tech shooting had ended up blaming computer video games for the bloodiest massacre in U.S. history.

This is what Jack Thompson told Fox or anyone else who would li

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

sten that "These are real lives. These are real people that are in the ground now because of this game. I have no doubt about it," Thompson is an attorney for Florida and an avid critic of the video game in

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

Examples of combination products may in

dustry.

The video game that Thompson was focusing on was Counter Strike "a massively popular team-based tactical shooting game that puts players in the heavily armed boots of either a counter-terrorist or

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

terrorist."

The problem here is the shooter, Seung-Hui Cho is not even known to be a big fan of the game counter strike.

After the shooting the video game industry was appalled that the finger was being p

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

ointed to them even though Seung-Hui Cho was recorded to being mentally disturbed and had a history of violent acts in the past.

Thompson got so bold that he called gamers "knuckleheads" and referred to vi

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

Combination pro

deo games as "mental masturbation". He considers himself a crusader or pioneer in the war against the video game industry. Pretty bold for some one who probably hasn't played many video games in his life.

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

"In recent years he's blamed games such as "Counter-Strike," "Doom" and "Grand Theft Auto III" for school shootings in Littleton, Colo., Red Lake, Minn. and Paducah, Ky." As a result and not surprisingly Th

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

mpson has launched several unsuccessful lawsuits.

Thompson explains that the media, specifically video games glorifies killing especially on a massive scale which equates to becoming a fiber of the charact

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

er of the person playing the video games.

By Tuesday after the shootings it was noted that Seung-Hui Cho in high school was a big fan of violent video game especially "Counter-Strike." However Cho's univer

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

sity suite-mate said he had never seen Cho play video games.

Thompson even sent a letter to Bill Gates explaining that Microsoft was potently liable for the harm done at Virgina Tech stating that Counter S

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

trike is game designed to simulate killing and how to kill.

Thompson does admit that there where many factors that lead to the shooting but video games are what provided Cho with the skills necessary to ca

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

Following aspects would a

rry out what he did.

On the flip side is "Dr. Karen Sternheimer, a sociologist at the University of Southern Calfornia and author of the book " Kids These Days: Facts and Fictions About Today's Youth," dis

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

agrees." She stats that it didn't take much skill for Cho to do what he did especially sense there where many eye witnesses that saw people where shot a point blank range.

For all the claims Thompson made

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

about video games being the cause of all the violence, Sternheimer relates the shooting at the University of Texas in 1966 when Pong had not even been invented yet.

"One thing that people often don't reali

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

e is that in the years since video game sales have really exploded, not only have youth violence rates decreased but violence rates in the U.S. have declined precipitously," she added. She also added it is

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

pretty common for a young male like Cho to have played video games at some point in his life.

The simple solution is blame someone like the video game industry for such a complected problem because we as a

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

society want answers we want closure.

This of course is not the first time pop culture has been the bad guy for something, in the 50's it was rock and roll, the 30's it was Jazz, literature, TV, Movies ha

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

ve all been there as well. What Thompson does is he feeds off of the fear of people who don't understand video games. A common phrase is "What you don't understand scarys you".

There have been groups forme

.

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

d to counter act and education people on what video game are really for and that video games are not killing simulators.

Being a gamer myself I know there are a lot of normal people playing video game like

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

Counter Strike that would have no intension of kill anyone afterwards, people play for fun and as an escape not to simulate what they will do in real life, those who do that like Cho are mentally disturbed

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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