The FDA approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Journavx, a new non-opioid pain pill for short-term pain. While safer than opioids, ...

Federal officials on Thursday approved a new type of pain pill designed to eliminate the risks of addiction and overdose ...

Vertex began researching the drug in the ... receptors in the brain that receive nerve signals from different parts of the body. Those chemical interactions also give rise to opioids' addictive ...