Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nearly all women taking misoprostol alone had a complete abortion without procedural intervention. Most women ...

Mifepristone pretreatment followed by misoprostol therapy was more likely to result in expulsion of the gestational sac in women who experienced early miscarriage compared with misoprostol alone, a ...

Oct. 10, 2003 — A randomized controlled trial found that after a loading dose of vaginal misoprostol, oral misoprostol was as effective as vaginal for second-trimester pregnancy termination. Results ...

The median time from induction to delivery was 10 hours after administration of both mifepristone and misoprostol, significantly lower than the 17 hours after administration of misoprostol alone, ...

Reproductive Health Matters, Vol. 16, No. 31, Supplement: Second Trimester Abortion: Women's Health and Public Policy (May, 2008), pp. 189-195 (7 pages) Outdated second trimester abortion methods are ...

Medication abortions involve using two prescription medications — mifepristone and misoprostol — to end a pregnancy. (Phil Walter/Getty Images) According to a report by the Guttmacher Institute, more ...

Louisiana hospitals have locked up a key drug used to stop women from bleeding out after giving birth as a new state law takes effect Tuesday. The law, named Act 246, classifies two common pregnancy ...

Experts say misoprostol is safe and effective when used on its own. An imminent ruling from a Texas federal judge could soon block the use of a common abortion medication across the United States, ...

The abortion pill mifepristone has been on uncertain legal ground ever since a Texas judge ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s approval more than two decades ago should be ...

The current treatment of choice for early pregnancy failure is vacuum aspiration. Medical management with misoprostol is a novel therapy, but no large trials have yet investigated the efficacy and ...

The Supreme Court has overturned its landmark decision in Roe v. Wade, which provided a national constitutional right to an abortion. The ruling rocked the United States from coast to coast. It allows ...

A self-induced abortion with misoprostol can be a safe, reliable way to end an unwanted pregnancy. By Cari Sietstra Ms. Sietstra is an advocate who focuses on reproductive rights. This story has been ...