I was living on the precipice of end-stage disease when I enrolled in the clinical trial that resulted in the historically fast Food and Drug Administration approval for the game-changing cystic ...

The cost of a popular Vertex Pharmaceuticals therapy could be contributing to cystic fibrosis (CF) treatment disparities around the world, researchers argued in a recent paper. Just 12% of some ...

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals is well known for its slew of cystic fibrosis medications, and newcomer Trikafta is pulling its weight. Over the course of 2021, the med clinched reimbursement in 16 countries ...

- For the first time, approximately 6,000 patients with one minimal function mutation and one F508del mutation have a medicine to treat the underlying cause of their disease– -12,000 people with one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Positive Trikafta results set a benchmark of efficacy for future CF therapies. Photo by filadendron/E+ via Getty Images. On 18 May ...

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. VRTX announced that the FDA has accepted its supplemental new drug application (sNDA) for the label expansion of its triple combination ...

Courtney Boccio wasn’t sure what to expect when she started a clinical trial for a new drug aimed at helping people with cystic fibrosis in the spring of 2018. The 25-year-old Huntington woman was ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expanded the eligibility for ...