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Mifepristone, also
known as RU-486, is a
medication typically used in
combination with
misoprostol to
bring about a
medical abortion during pregnancy and...
- are most
commonly performed by
administering a two-drug combination:
mifepristone followed by misoprostol.
Evidence suggests this two-drug combination...
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challenge the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)'s
approval of
mifepristone, a drug
frequently used in
medical abortion procedures. The plaintiffs...
- Food and Drug
Administration (FDA)'s
approval of
abortion medication mifepristone in 2000, and had
issued a
preliminary ruling suspending the approval...
- developed, but only three,
mifepristone, lilopristone, and onapristone, have been
given to humans, and of these, only
mifepristone has been
approved and introduced...
- deaths.
Modern methods use
medication or
surgery for abortions. The drug
mifepristone in
combination with
prostaglandin appears to be as safe and effective...
- to 12 w****s of
pregnancy using misoprostol: a
standardized regimen of
mifepristone and
misoprostol and a
regimen of
misoprostol alone. The
regimen with...
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Developed in
France in 1980,
mifepristone was
approved by the FDA in 2000 for
abortion in the U.S.
Since then,
mifepristone has been
marketed by
Danco Laboratories...
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drugs (NSAID). For
abortions it is used by
itself or in
conjunction with
mifepristone or methotrexate. By itself,
effectiveness for
abortion is
between 66%...
- Self-managed
medical abortion is done with
mifepristone and
misoprostol at home
before the 12th w**** of pregnancy.
Mifepristone and
misoprostol terminate the pregnancy...
