Mifepristone (generic), Mifeprex, RU-486 News Archives

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 .