BioCentury
ARTICLE | Product Development

It’s been a hell of a millennium -- and it’s just getting started

New medicines have transformed medicine since 2000

December 21, 2019 3:23 AM UTC

BioCentury, like the biomedical innovation ecosystem it serves, is relentlessly focused on the future, but the turn of a decade is a good time to check in on the progress industry has made possible -- which diseases have been transformed and which are on the cusp.

In less than twenty years, several deadly diseases have been transformed into manageable, chronic conditions; the word “cure” has been added to the lexicon; and conditions once thought of as inevitable consequences of aging have been re-imaged...