Mifepristone (generic), Mifeprex, RU-486 News

Advanced ovarian cancer is treated with cytoreductive surgery and combination platinum- and taxane-based chemotherapy.

Rep. Steve King , the same congressman who thinks states have a right to ban contraception, has revived an anti-abortion bill that is destined to die in the Senate.

Gov. Sam Brownback has signed into law a bill that will allow pharmacists to refuse to provide drugs they believe might cause an abortion.

Figures from the annual report of the South Australian Abortion Reporting Committee show while only 282 women used the drug in 2009, 668 did so in 2010 - the most recent figures available.

On April 10, 2012, Corcept began offering its first medicine, Korlym , less than eight weeks after the United States Food and Drug Administration approved it as a once-daily oral treatment of hyperglycemia secondary to endogenous Cushing's syndrome in adult patients with glucose intolerance or diabetes mellitus type 2 who have failed surgery or are ... (more)

Comparing Viagra to RU-486 was comparing apples and oranges or more like comparing life and death.

Fallin signed 11 bills on Tuesday, including one requiring physicians who prescribe RU-486 - or mifepristone - to be physically present when the drug is first provided to the patient.

Fallin signed 11 bills on Tuesday, including one requiring physicians who prescribe RU-486 -- or mifepristone -- to be physically present when the drug is first provided to the patient.

Fallin signed 11 bills on Tuesday, including one requiring physicians who prescribe RU-486 -- or mifepristone -- to be physically present when the drug is first provided to the patient.

Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton has vetoed an anti-abortion bill that would have required a doctor to be present for a woman to take the abortion-inducing drug RU-486, effectively banning "tele-med" abortions and disproportionately affecting women in rural communities.