Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: VRTX) generates billions of dollars in annual revenues from its treatments for the rare disease cystic fibrosis. And Vertex should continue to dominate in cystic fibrosis and bring in blockbuster revenue well into the future thanks to its life-saving treatments. But the big biotech company may soon also make headlines with a treatment for a far more common problem -- and this could result in a whole new massive revenue stream.

We've all suffered from this problem at one time or another. I'm talking about pain. The problem is that treatment options today are limited to a few over-the-counter options or prescription opioids. Vertex's candidate, VX-548, is a non-opioid option that the company thinks could take the market by storm.

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