{"id":565431,"date":"2026-09-06T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/biologics-as-the-new-kids-on-the-block\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:46:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:46:44","slug":"biologics-as-the-new-kids-on-the-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/biologics-as-the-new-kids-on-the-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologics as the \u201cnew kids on the block\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What led to a paradigm shift in severe asthma several years ago is now also making its way into COPD treatment: targeted, phenotype-specific antibody therapy. Patients with severe COPD who continue to suffer from recurrent exacerbations despite triple therapy (LABA+LAMA+ICS) are primarily eligible for biologic therapy. With dupilumab and mepolizumab, two highly effective monoclonal antibodies have now received Swissmedic approval for the indication of COPD.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fbiologics-as-the-new-kids-on-the-block%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What led to a paradigm shift in severe asthma several years ago is now also making its way into COPD treatment: targeted, phenotype-specific antibody therapy. Patients with severe COPD who&#8230;&hellip;... <\/p>\n<div class=\"pmpro\"><div class=\"pmpro_card pmpro_content_message\"><div class=\"pmpro_card_content\">Dieser Inhalt ist nur f\u00fcr Benutzer der Gruppe: Medizinische Fachperson zug\u00e4nglich <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/my-account\/packages\/\">Jetzt beitreten<\/a><\/div><div class=\"pmpro_card_actions pmpro_font-medium\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/log-in\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmedizinonline.com%2Fen%2Fbiologics-as-the-new-kids-on-the-block%2F\">Log in here<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":565432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","cat_1_feature_home_top":false,"cat_2_editor_pick":false,"csco_eyebrow_text":"COPD: Biomarker-Guided Therapy Escalation  ","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"category":[11548,11513,11297,11442,11455],"tags":[100759,59274,12391,100758,100762,12085,13405,16209,100760,13728,13727,21130,100765,27355,100764,100763,100761,27366,22678],"powerkit_post_featured":[],"class_list":["post-565431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rx-en","category-congress-reports","category-general-internal-medicine","category-pharmacology-and-toxicology","category-pneumology","tag-abe-classification","tag-antibody-therapy","tag-biologics-en","tag-biomarker-guided-escalation-of-therapy","tag-boreas","tag-copd-en","tag-dupilumab-en","tag-dupixent-en","tag-eosinophil-counts","tag-ics-en","tag-laba-en","tag-lama-en","tag-matinee","tag-mepolizumab-en","tag-metreo","tag-metrex","tag-notus","tag-nucala-en","tag-triple-therapy","pmpro-level-required","pmpro-level-1","pmpro-no-access"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-18 20:01:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"wpml_current_locale":"en_US","wpml_translations":{"fr_FR":{"locale":"fr_FR","id":565434,"slug":"les-medicaments-biologiques-les-nouveaux-venus","post_title":"Les m\u00e9dicaments biologiques, les \u00ab nouveaux venus \u00bb","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/fr\/les-medicaments-biologiques-les-nouveaux-venus\/"},"it_IT":{"locale":"it_IT","id":565437,"slug":"i-farmaci-biologici-i-nuovi-arrivati","post_title":"I farmaci biologici: i \u00abnuovi arrivati\u00bb","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/it\/i-farmaci-biologici-i-nuovi-arrivati\/"},"pt_PT":{"locale":"pt_PT","id":565440,"slug":"os-produtos-biologicos-como-novos-vindos","post_title":"Os produtos biol\u00f3gicos como \u00abnovos vindos\u00bb","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/pt-pt\/os-produtos-biologicos-como-novos-vindos\/"},"es_ES":{"locale":"es_ES","id":565443,"slug":"los-productos-biologicos-los-nuevos-en-el-mercado","post_title":"Los productos biol\u00f3gicos, los \u00abnuevos en el mercado\u00bb","href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/es\/los-productos-biologicos-los-nuevos-en-el-mercado\/"}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":565433,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565431\/revisions\/565433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category?post=565431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565431"},{"taxonomy":"powerkit_post_featured","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medizinonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/powerkit_post_featured?post=565431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}