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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A randomised controlled trial of 435 women having a medical abortion after 12 weeks of pregnancy found 71% of patients who took the first dose of misoprostol at home spent fewer than 9 hours in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Misoprostol-only abortion is not a medical advancement. It is an inferior, failure-prone protocol promoted for its supposed ...

A federal judge in Texas could rule as soon as today on whether to cut off access to a key medication abortion protocol, giving lawyers until day's end to submit additional arguments. Fearing another ...