{"id":1239,"date":"2016-11-16T12:30:17","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2017-03-16T15:12:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T04:12:32","slug":"biologics-the-good-the-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2016\/11\/16\/biologics-the-good-the-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologics: the good, the bad and the oh so expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/196381522\" width=\"360\" height=\"406\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Grand Rounds 16\/11\/16\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Synopsis<\/h2>\n<p>Biologics are therapeutics that target specific components of the immune system. They are characterised by unpronounceable generic names (alemtuzumab, eculizumab, blinotumomab, pembrolizumab). These medications have revolutionised the treatment of several immune-mediated disorders: including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, psoriasis, lymphoma, lung, breast, ovarian and other cancers, and macular degeneration, and are widely used in a range of clinical disciplines.<br \/>\nThis Grand Round will discuss the clinical utility and controversies surrounding the rapidly increasing number of available biological therapies, and their applications in paediatrics.<\/p>\n<h2>Speakers<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Dr Joanne Smart, Dr Sharon Choo and Dr Theresa Cole<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Department of Allergy and Immunology<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biologics are therapeutics that target specific components of the immune system.  They are characterised by unpronounceable generic names (alemtuzumab, eculizumab, blinotumomab, pembrolizumab).  These medications have revolutionised the treatment of several immune-mediated disorders: including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, psoriasis, lymphoma, lung, breast, ovarian and other cancers, and macular degeneration, and are widely used in a range of clinical disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9815,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allergy-immunology","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}