Mifepristone (generic), Mifeprex, RU-486 News

Italy has given a final go-ahead to the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican.

The sale of the abortion pill RU486 has been given final approval in Italy, despite protests from the Vatican and the government in the Catholic country.

Vatican City, Dec 3, 2009 .- The Cardinal Van Thuan Observatory recently issued a statement condemning the RU-486 as an 'expression of a disgregating culture that destroys the passion for life and delivers a blow to the very origins of the meaning of being together.' The Observatory, whose aim is to promote the social doctrine of the Church on an ...

Lawmakers in Italy decided to keep the RU-486 abortion pill off the market while the pilla TMs safety is evaluated.

The centre-right government of Silvio Berlusconi has blocked availability in Italy of the RU486 abortion pill, which is vehemently opposed by the Vatican and the Catholic Church.

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control claims the number of abortions has rose during 2006, the last year for which it has national data available.

An Italian Senate committee has decided to keep the RU-486 abortion pill off the market while its safety is evaluated.

According to Planned Parenthood's website, this new pill is considered a medical abortion.A It can end an early pregnancy and can be used up to 9 weeks, or 63 days after the first day of a woman's last period.A It has a 97 out of 100 success rate but the organization suggests following up with your health care provider to make sure it worked.A ...

The leader of a Nevada organization that wants to outlaw abortion acknowledged today that passage of its Parenthood amendment would prohibit women from using pills that induce abortion.

Planned Parenthood says "Our monitoring shows that mifepristone medication abortion continues to be a safe abortion option." The distributor of Mifeprex says that "Mifeprex is 92-95% effective for safely ending early pregnancy." But a new study from Finland says that 20% of the women using the abortion pill suffer at least one significant ...

A provision in the recently passed House health care reform bill could lead to taxpayer-funding of contraceptive-abortion drugs, according to one grassroots pro-life group.

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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.