Mifepristone, also known by its developmental code name RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical...
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Medical abortion (redirect from Mifepristone/misoprostol)
combination: mifepristone followed by misoprostol. This two-drug combination is more effective than other drug combinations. When mifepristone is not available...
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service in the conveyance of these materials. Since abortion pills like mifepristone are used in over 50% of American abortions, the Comstock Act has been...
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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...
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makes and distributes a generic version of the medical abortion drug mifepristone. Birth control movement in the United States Danco Laboratories Exelgyn...
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s approval of abortion medication mifepristone in 2000, and had issued a preliminary ruling suspending the approval...
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developed, but only three, mifepristone, lilopristone, and onapristone, have been given to humans, and of these, only mifepristone has been approved and introduced...
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(levonorgestrel, LNG) pills; and antiprogestin (ulipristal acetate or mifepristone) pills. Progestin-only and anti-progestin pills are available as specifically...
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deaths. Modern methods use medication or surgery for abortions. The drug mifepristone (aka RU-486) in combination with prostaglandin appears to be as safe...
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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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to 12 weeks of pregnancy using misoprostol: a standardized regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol and a regimen of misoprostol alone. The regimen with...
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and distributes the medical abortion drugs mifepristone (marketed as Mifegyne) and misoprostol. Mifepristone was originally developed by the French pharmaceutical...
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located in midtown Manhattan which distributes the abortifacient drug mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex. Mifeprex is the only drug distributed...
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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%...
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much lower doses (30 mg) than the roughly equipotent mifepristone (600 mg), and since mifepristone has to be combined with a prostaglandin for the induction...
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glucocorticoid receptor antagonists, chemist Georges Teutsch synthesized mifepristone (RU-38486, the 38,486th compound synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf from 1949...
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ketoconazole, metyrapone) but they are of limited efficacy.[citation needed] Mifepristone is a powerful glucocorticoid type II receptor antagonist and, since it...
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Levonorgestrel, sold under the brand name Plan B Ulipristal acetate Mifepristone and misoprostol, when used in combination, are more than 95% effective...
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psychotic depression. There is no evidence for or against the use of mifepristone. There is some evidence indicating that combination therapy with an antidepressant...
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Self-managed medical abortion is done with mifepristone and misoprostol at home before the 12th week of pregnancy. Mifepristone and misoprostol terminate the pregnancy...
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presented a case to the Supreme Court in 2024 against the FDA's approval of mifepristone, stating that the medication is a danger to women. Hawley argued that...
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access to mifepristone in 16 states. Kacsmaryk's ruling was partially reversed by a panel on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, leaving mifepristone on the...
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Administration to use all means possible to preserve FDA approval for Mifepristone and protect access to these treatments nationwide, in response to a ruling...
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Common abortifacients used in performing medical abortions include mifepristone, which is typically used in conjunction with misoprostol in a two-step...
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RU-42633; also known as desmethylmifepristone) is the major metabolite of mifepristone (RU-486, RU-38486) and a selective progesterone receptor modulator (SPRM)...
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and has therefore superseded the Yuzpe method. A single dose of 100 mg mifepristone is also more effective than the Yuzpe regime. The method was first developed...
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Dextromethorphan Dextrorphan Efavirenz Hypidone Medifoxamine Mesembrine Mifepristone MIN-117 (WF-516) N-Me-5-HT Opioids (e.g., dextropropoxyphene, methadone...
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work as a harm reduction strategy designed to provide safe access to mifepristone and misoprostol for those able to become pregnant in the United States...
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an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court opposing more restrictions on mifepristone. Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs California Governor Gavin Newsom Colorado...
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Dextromethorphan Dextrorphan Efavirenz Hypidone Medifoxamine Mesembrine Mifepristone MIN-117 (WF-516) N-Me-5-HT Opioids (e.g., dextropropoxyphene, methadone...
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