The medication will be sold under the brand name Journavx for $15.50 per pill, according to Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the company that developed the new drug. The FDA's sign-off on the medication ...

Corrigan-Curay emphasized that Journavx could “mitigate certain risks associated with using an opioid for pain.” The FDA’s official account on X also tweeted the news — the agency’s ...

The approval was announced in an FDA press release, and it will be sold under the brand name Journavx by Vertex Pharmaceuticals. This painkiller's approval reflects the FDA’s commitment to ...

On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval to Vertex Pharmaceuticals' non-opioid painkiller pill, a new alternative for pain relief that does not carry the risk of addiction.

Dr. Adriane Fugh-Berman, a professor of pharmacology and physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center, welcomed the FDA approval. But she contended it was premature to declare that Journavx ...

The FDA approved Journavx on Thursday following a pair of clinical trials on 874 participants with moderate to severe acute pain following abdominoplasty — commonly known as a "tummy tuck ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Journavx for short-term pain ... drug pipeline that involves winning FDA approval for multiple drugs across several ...

Whereas opioids block pain receptors in the brain, the FDA says Journavx works by "targeting a pain-signaling pathway involving sodium channels in the peripheral nervous system" before those pain ...

The FDA's approval process for Journavx included an evaluation of its safety and efficacy. Clinical trials demonstrated that the drug is effective in managing acute pain without the adverse ...