Like Plavix ®, there are many other examples and ... Private healthcare companies are supposed to make the drug available at a lower cost to their affiliates and then get reimbursed by the ...

This announcement follows the loss of exclusivity of two key drugs, blood thinner Plavix and hypertension medicine Avapro/Avalide, and the arrival of generic competition in many major markets.

The drug of choice is warfarin sodium (Coumadin ... 1999); clopidogrel bisulfate (Plavix), 75 mg daily (Albers et al.); or extended-release dipryridamole 400 mg with Aspirin 50 mg (Aggrenox ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals on Thursday won approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a non-opioid pain drug, clearing ...

The drug, Journavx by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, blocks pain signals to the brain, making it nonaddictive. The Food and Drug ...

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new type of nonopioid painkiller from Vertex Pharmaceuticals, NBC ...

The FDA’s nod for suzetrigine bolsters confidence in the pharmaceutical industry’s strategy to target sodium channels.

The prescription pills, sold under the brand name Journavx and made by Vertex Pharmaceuticals, are taken twice a day and ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. gained US approval for the first new type of painkiller in more than two decades, paving the way for a safer alternative to addictive opioids that have been linked to ...

Novo Nordisk (NVO) said its popular diabetes drug Ozempic, also known as semaglutide, has been approved to reduce the risk of kidney disease worsening, kidney failure, and death from cardiovascular ...

Oprah Winfrey is sharing new details on her weight loss in recent years, including the kind of weight loss drug she took. In a recent episode of "The Oprah Podcast", she said that she took a GLP-1 ...

Drug development describes the process of developing a new drug that effectively targets a specific weakness in a cell. This process involves specific pre-clinical development and testing ...