A medication abortion involves taking both mifepristone and misoprostol, but experts say that misoprostol alone is a safe and effective method. (Getty Images) Adding to the confusion is the fact that ...

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, ...

A federal judge in Texas on Friday suspended the Food and Drug Administration’s longtime approval of the drug mifepristone for use in medication abortions, a ruling that is set to go into effect on ...

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 ...

With a federal judge's recent ruling clouding the future availability of mifepristone for terminating pregnancies, attention has shifted to the efficacy of another abortion drug, misoprostol. Experts ...

While the fate of mifepristone, also known as the abortion pill, plays out in US courts, health-care providers have another drug they can continue to use to offer medication abortion. Misoprostol is ...

When people refer to “the abortion pill,” they’re usually talking about mifepristone, the progesterone-inhibiting drug that was developed in France in the 1980s and approved in the U.S. in 2000. This ...

Following the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in late June overruling Roe v. Wade, the United States joins 126 countries around world in having a restrictive ...

H.L. is a 25-year-old woman, gravida 2 para 1-0-0-0 admitted to the birth unit at 38 and 6/7 weeks' gestation for induction of labor because of an obstetric history of a previous intrauterine fetal ...

The fate of mifepristone — a drug that, when combined with misoprostol, is prescribed for medication abortions, which now account for more than half of all abortions performed in the U.S. — is up in ...