NBC New York: FDA approves Vertex's non-opioid painkiller, first new kind of pain medicine in decades Vertex is now the first drugmaker in decades to gain U.S. approval for a new type of pain medicine. It's a milestone after a long history of mostly unsuccessful efforts to develop painkillers without ...

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