Changing The Treatment Landscape With The Development Of Biologics

Medicines called biologics are transforming the healthcare landscape by offering hard-to-treat patients a real treatment benefit. As targeted therapies, they have brought us much closer to the realization of personalized solutions to our health problems. A biologic or biological drug is manufactured using living organisms, a different process from that used for small molecule drugs, which are typically produced via chemical synthesis. Biologics have seen a rapid rise in popularity as treatment options for many diseases; even offering cures where none existed before. Why is this true? What do biological drugs offer that other therapies do not?