A novel Vertex Pharmaceuticals drug that takes a new approach to pain is now approved by the FDA, a landmark decision for a first-in-class product that brings patients a treatment alternative intended ...

A non-opioid pain medication made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals has received approval for adults from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The company’s "first-in-class" suzetrigine pain pill received ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has inched closer to bringing a new, non-opioid med to the blockbuster pain market, with the FDA accepting a rolling new drug application for the company’s NaV1.8 inhibitor ...

After the FDA's landmark approval of the opioid-free acute pain reliever Journavx in January, Vertex Pharmaceuticals has hit a snag on its path to expand the potential blockbuster’s reach into ...

Each year, around 80 million Americans are prescribed a medicine for moderate to severe pain. Journavx is the first new type of painkiller approved in more than 20 years. It prevents pain signals from ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals has hit a snag in its efforts to follow up non-opioid pain reliever Journavx (suzetrigine). The Boston-based Big Biotech’s sodium channel inhibitor VX-993 failed to outpace ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) shares fell in premarket trading on Tuesday after the company's VX-993 failed to meet the primary endpoint in the Phase 2 pain study, offsetting a strong quarterly ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. Vertex Pharmaceuticals said Monday that ...

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During Vertex’s third-quarter presentation, Chief Commercial Officer Duncan McKechnie cited several numbers that suggest the launch of its long-awaited, non-opioid pain reliever Journavx is trending ...

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