At $31 a day, is Vertex’s new non-addictive painkiller worth the price?
Will people with acute pain want a new painkiller whose list price is $15.50 a pill when a generic prescription drug is at ...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals' non-opioid pain medication gets FDA approval
A non-opioid pain medication made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals has received approval for adults from the Food and Drug ...
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Stock Jumps as Non-Opioid Painkiller Gets FDA Approval
The company announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Journavx, a twice-daily pill that it described as a "highly selective NaV1.8 pain signal inhibitor for the treatment of ...
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FDA approves Vertex’s acute pain treatment Journavx
The FDA has approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ oral Journavx (suzetrigine) to treat adults with moderate-to-severe acute pain.
FDA approves Vertex's non-opioid painkiller, first new kind of pain medicine in decades
The Vertex drug is a milestone after a long history of unsuccessful efforts to develop painkillers without the addictive potential of opioids.