(The Center Square) – On the three-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade, dozens of state ...

Women in search of the abortion pill Mifeprex, known as RU-486 in Europe, will have to look beyond two major Twin Cities clinic branches for the prescription. All Park Nicollet clinics and Allina ...

Four blue states are asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to remove restrictions on a key abortion medication and make it easier for clinicians to prescribe and dispense it - an attempt to ...

The states have dubbed these requirements “unnecessary, duplicative, and burdensome.” The FDA approved mifepristone (brand name “Mifeprex”) more than 20 years ago based on a comprehensive review of ...

In its filing, Danco – which produces Mifeprex, a branded version of mifepristone – said that the 5th Circuit Court's ruling "created regulatory chaos across the country" and an "untenable ...

The most common medications given for a medication abortion are mifepristone (Mifeprex, RU-486) and misoprostol (Cytotec). Mifepristone blocks the action of the hormone progesterone, which is ...

How it works This type of abortion involves taking two medications: mifepristone (Korlym, Mifeprex) and misoprostol (Cytotec). Typically, the person will take 200 milligrams (mg) of mifepristone.

Mifeprex was first approved in 2000 as a combination regimen with misoprostol for ending pregnancy, with restrictions under a REMS to ensure its safe use, and generics entered the market in 2019.

A district court decision due in Texas in the coming days could have sweeping ramifications on access to abortion pills in the US, and reverse recent moves by the Biden administra ...

Every month, thousands of women thwart abortion bans in their home states by turning to telehealth clinics willing to prescribe pregnancy-ending drugs online and ship them anywhere in the country.

A study reveals that chemical abortions cause more harm than reported, with 22 times higher adverse events than the FDA label ...

The FDA also approved a generic version of Mifeprex in 2019. Women are 10 times more likely to die from abortion pills than from a surgical abortions, state Rep. Mitch Little, R-Lewisville, argued ...