Removing restrictions on how mifepristone—the medical abortion drug—can be prescribed and dispensed in Canada greatly improved access to abortion, especially in rural communities across the country.
Sep 14, 2020
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A pretreatment medication for women who suffer miscarriages—called mifepristone—is not only more clinically effective when combined with the standard of care drug, but also more cost effective, according to researchers ...
Apr 2, 2020
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Women who initiate medical abortion but opt to stop in the middle of treatment may be at risk for serious blood loss, a UC Davis Health study finds. Researchers found this is true even for women who use an experimental treatment ...
Dec 5, 2019
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Over the past thirteen years, many Australian women have used the drug mifepristone (RU486) to bring about a medical abortion.
Apr 1, 2019
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A combination of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol can help bring closure to some women and their families suffering from miscarriage, and reduces the need for surgical intervention to complete the painful miscarriage ...
Jun 6, 2018
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Massachusetts Eye and Ear researchers have shown that mifepristone, a drug currently FDA-approved for chemical abortion, prevents the growth of vestibular schwannoma (also known as acoustic neuroma) cells. This sometimes-lethal ...
Apr 3, 2018
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Fifteen years after its approval in the United States, the drug mifepristone is used in nearly a quarter of all abortions, a proportion that has grown steadily even as the national abortion rate has fallen to a historic low.
Sep 22, 2015
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Canada has approved the use of the abortion pill mifepristone after three years of tests, the ministry of health said Thursday.
Jul 30, 2015
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Glucocorticoids, a group of hormones that includes cortisol, are considered stress hormones because their levels increase following stress. When their relationship to stress was first identified, it was shown that the release ...
Sep 12, 2012
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Mifepristone, a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for terminating early pregnancy, might prove effective in preventing stress-induced relapse in recovering male alcoholics, based on findings in rats reported ...
Nov 4, 2011
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