The FDA approved Cobenfy, a new drug for people with schizophrenia that comes with fewer side effects than other antipsychotics.

"This drug takes the first new approach to schizophrenia treatment in decades," Tiffany Farchione, a top official in the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), said in a statement Thursday. "This approval offers a new alternative to the antipsychotic medications people with schizophrenia have previously been prescribed,

Cobenfy is the first schizophrenia drug in decades to treat the mental health condition in a new way, with potentially fewer side effects British scientists have hailed the US approval of a new drug for schizophrenia,