The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new type of antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections. The pill, gepotidacin, will be sold under the brand name Blujepa and is expected to be available in the second half of 2025.
Blujepa is approved to treat females 12 and older with uncomplicated urinary tract infections, or UTIs. About half of all women will experience a UTI at some point in their lives, and about 30% will have a UTI that comes back after treatment, drugmaker GSK said.
Recurrent UTIs have become a bigger problem as the bacteria that cause them have become more resistant to the antibiotics available to treat them.
Blujepa is the first new type of oral antibiotic to treat UTIs to gain approval in more than 20 years. Its development was funded in part by grants from the US government's Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
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FDA approves a new kind of oral antibiotic to treat urinary tract infections
- by: Brenda Goodman, CNN
- 03.25.25
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- 03/26/2025
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