Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a new type of prescription pain medication for adults to treat ...

For the first time in over two decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new pain medication that could change how we manage acute pain. The drug is called suzetrigine and ...

For the first time in two decades, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new class of medication that provides an alternative to addictive opioids for patients looking to manage ...

Suzetrigine is a prescription pill taken every 12 hours after a larger starter dose. The US Food and Drug Administration signed off Thursday on the first new type of pain reliever to be approved in ...

This marks the first approval of a new class of pain relief drugs in more than 20 years, according to a Jan. 30 news release from the agency. Suzetrigine, developed by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, works by ...

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 ...

For the last quarter century, one of the world’s most capable drug developers toiled to make a new, non-addictive kind of painkiller. The journey was fittingly excruciating. Pain, as Vertex ...

There's a vital need for new and effective pain medications. Vertex just announced results from a Phase III study of its experimental drug VX-548. How well does the drug work? It's hard to tell.

(NEW YORK) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday approved a new type of prescription pain medication for adults to treat moderate to severe acute pain. The drug, called Journavx ...