Mifepristone, also known by its developmental code name RU-486, is a medication typically used in combination with misoprostol to bring about a medical...

combination: mifepristone followed by misoprostol. This two-drug combination is more effective than other drug combinations. When mifepristone is not available...

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...

challenge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)'s approval of mifepristone, a drug frequently used in medical abortion procedures. The plaintiffs...

abortion drug mifepristone. In 1999 GenBioPro obtained Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorization to sell a generic version of mifepristone (before that...

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...

developed, but only three, mifepristone, lilopristone, and onapristone, have been given to humans, and of these, only mifepristone has been approved and introduced...

located in midtown Manhattan which distributes the abortifacient drug mifepristone under the brand name Mifeprex. Mifeprex is the only drug distributed...

deaths. Modern methods use medication or surgery for abortions. The drug mifepristone (aka RU-486) in combination with prostaglandin appears to be as safe...

and distributes the medical abortion drugs mifepristone (marketed as Mifegyne) and misoprostol. Mifepristone was originally developed by the French pharmaceutical...