The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug for treating urinary tract infections, the first such drug approved in decades and the first in a new class of medications. British

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved GSK's drug for a common type of urinary tract infection (UTI) in women and adolescent girls, one of five new approvals the British drugmaker has been expecting this year.

This antibiotic is the first new FDA-approved medication for urinary tract infections in decades, and meets the need for new treatments in an era of rising antibiotic resistance.