A new type of painkiller aimed at treating pain from an injury or surgery has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The drug suzetrigine, also known by its brand name ...

A new pain relief drug, suzetrigine, is a prescription pill that’s taken every 12 hours after a larger starter dose. It will ...

Meet suzetrigine, a non-opioid that promises to avoid addiction risk. But some experts say it can't replace opioids ...

The drug suzetrigine, also known by its brand name Journavx, only works on nerves outside the brain, where it blocks the signals that cause pain. The drug has a completely different mechanism of ...

making it the first pain drug given a regulatory nod in more than 20 years that works through a brand-new mechanism. Pain-medicine specialists hailed the arrival of a potent but safer alternative ...

The drug suzetrigine, known by its brand name Journavx, works by targeting pain signals before they reach the brain. Its manufacturer Vertex Pharmaceuticals said this enables it to provide ...

The Food and Drug Administration approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ “Journavx” on Thursday, greenlighting the non-opioid painkiller for treating moderate to severe pain in what the FDA ...

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 ...