GW Medical Center officials said they are considering whether to offer the newly approved FDA drug RU-486. The Food and Drug Administration approved the French abortion drug Mifepristone for U.S. use ...

RU 486 is an artificial steroid that interferes with the action of progesterone, a hormone crucial to the early progress of pregnancy. Progesterone stimulates the proliferation of the uterine ...

By Pam Belluck and Emily Bazelon A new study suggests a possible alternative to the abortion pill mifepristone, a drug that continues to be a target of lawsuits and legislation from abortion ...

But the findings raise the provocative possibility that a drug already marketed as a contraceptive ... for abortion—a potential substitute for mifepristone, subject to fewer restrictions ...

AND THERE WAS AN ATTEMPT TO GET MIFEPRISTONE, THAT FIRST DRUG TAKEN OFF OF THE MARKET THROUGH A LAWSUIT. AND THE PEOPLE WHO FILED THAT LAWSUIT WERE NOT ABLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL. NOW, YOU DON’T NEED ...

For 97% of them, that drug combo was effective at inducing an abortion, an effectiveness equal to the mifepristone-misoprostol combination. Four women needed a procedure or an additional ...

A decision by a federal judge last week is reviving the effort to limit access to mifepristone, opening a fresh round of litigation over a widely used drug that has grown in importance since the ...