Lately, one of America's leading pharmaceutical companies can't catch a break from Wall Street. Shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) are down about 9% from a peak the stock set in November,

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) stock is up 6% at $465.02 at last glance, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the biotech's new non-opioid painkiller, Journavx. In a statement to the press,

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave its approval to Vertex Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: NASDAQ:VRTX) Journavx (suzetrigine) 50 milligram oral tablets. This new drug is a non-opioid analgesic,