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

The therapy involves taking stem cells out of a patient's bone marrow and editing a gene in the cells in a laboratory and ...

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

Its manufacturer Vertex Pharmaceuticals said this enables it to provide effective relief for moderate to severe pain without "the addictive potential of opioids". The US has been grappling with a ...

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. gained US approval for the first new type of painkiller in more than two decades, paving the way ...