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With the second week of July coming to a close, let’s review the hot events of the pharmaceutical industry this week. The news involved 6 sections: approval, R&D, policies, transactions, listing and miscellany that happened during July 6-10.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took new steps aimed at fostering the development of non-addictive alternatives to opioids to manage acute pain and decreasing exposure to opioids and preventing new addiction.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced that it has begun a Phase 2 proof-of-concept (POC) study in acute pain following bunionectomy surgery with the selective NaV1.8 inhibitor VX-548 .