Unlike older systemic drugs, which are made from chemicals, biologics are made from organic human or animal proteins.

It can be treated with systemic antiviral drugs, such as acyclovir or valaciclovir.

There are ocular side effects of systemic drugs.

Replies: The drug is a systemic drug.

Alcohol can also be dangerous if you're using certain systemic drugs to treat psoriasis.

If X-rays already show evidence of joint damage, it's appropriate to step it up right from the beginning and consider methotrexate or other systemic drugs.

Physicians should discourage the chronic use of costly systemic drugs whose unwanted consequences may be more troublesome than IBS itself.

This metabolized GI component is simply displacing systemic drug that would otherwise have been metabolized.

Alternatively, dermatologists sometimes supplement a biologic with low doses of older systemic drugs, such as Soriatane or, most often, methotrexate.

For example, where there are lesions in the mouth alone, systemic drugs are less likely to be used.