Mifepristone (generic), Mifeprex, RU-486 News

Abortion. We're no strangers to the arguments on all sides of the discussion, nor are we ignorant of the controversy surrounding the issue.

Main Category: Abortion Also Included In: Pharmacy / Pharmacist Article Date: 28 Oct 2009 - 5:00 PDT Texas state Rep.

The ban on medical abortions by specialist obstetricians in Queensland Health hospitals is now in its third month.

State Rep. Frank Corte, R-San Antonio, has asked Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott for a ruling on whether facilities need a license to administer the abortion pill RU-486. "When a woman is seeking to terminate her pregnancy, we want her to go to a facility that's licensed," Corte said in an interview.

I found it interesting to find in Thursday's paper that I was being lied to by LeAnn Anderson .

Yale University Press, 263 pp., $27.50; $18.00 A Note to Readers Recently Senator Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has been looking into financial ties between the pharmaceutical industry and the academic physicians who largely determine the market value of prescription drugs.

Clay Shirky points us to a column from a few months back by Marcia Angell, which explains why clinical research on drugs isn't even remotely trustworthy , as it all-too-often seems to involve doctors who have serious conflicts: Or consider Dr.

Monday, 19 October 2009, 10:26 am Press Release: Family PLanning Association 18 October 2009 MEDIA RELEASE 180 participants from Australia and New Zealand attended a conference in Wellington on Friday 16 October and Saturday 17 October to discuss the use of mifepristone in Australasia.

Friday, 9 October 2009, 12:13 pm Press Release: Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand MEDIA RELEASE 9 October 2009 Abortion Law Reform Association of NZ ALRANZ Condemns Threats and Lies The anti-abortion group Right to Life is using threats, intimidation tactics and lies in its latest attempt to limit New Zealand women's access to ...

This pattern of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis hyper-reactivity has been previously seen in healthy individuals treated with the antiglucocorticoid mifepristone.

Hmm Michele. I know, let's think about the horrible scenario where a father rapes his daughter and impregnates her.

Wouldn't you think that having an abortion pill available in the U.S. would improve women's access to abortion? It was widely hoped that when RU-486 won FDA approval in 2000, the abortion pill would be prescribed by physicians to women who sought to terminate their pregnancies but lived in communities where abortion services weren't available.

Tegan Simone Leach, a nineteen-year-old Australian woman, faces up to seven years in prison for allegedly facilitating her own abortion.

Tegan Leach is 19. Her boyfriend, Sergie Brennan, is 21. Both live in the north Queensland city of Cairns, in Australia.

Tom Dannemiller has twice taken to this paper's letters page to make known his personal opposition to Americans' use of birth control.

A woman said to have caused her own miscarriage using drugs smuggled in from Russia is facing the prospect of jail after being ordered to stand trial in Australia.

Even after the "abortion pill" RU-486 made it possible for all doctors to provide early abortions, access to abortions did not improve as dramatically as women had hoped.

MELBOURNE'S Royal Women's Hospital will be able to offer the abortion pill RU486 to more women, after the Federal Government broadened its licence to prescribe the drug.

Main Category: Veterans / Ex-Servicemen Also Included In: Conferences ; Neurology / Neuroscience ; Clinical Trials / Drug Trials Article Date: 02 Sep 2009 - 6:00 PDT Clinical trial of the drug mifepristone aims to evaluate treatment of Gulf War illness symptoms New research on treating Gulf War Illness is being presented this week at the Military ...

September 1, 2009 - New research on treating Gulf War Illness is being presented this week at the Military Health Research Forum , a scientific meeting hosted by the Department of Defense Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs .