Misoprostol can cause uterine cramping, nausea and vomiting. Some research suggests that patients are more likely to experience fever, chills and diarrhea than those who use the two-drug regimen.

The proportion of patients opting to take only misoprostol to terminate their pregnancies fell to between 10% and 15% after the FDA relaxed in-person dispensing requirements in 2021, allowing ...

While the FDA hasn’t formally approved misoprostol-only abortion regimens, the World Health Organization and other major groups, including the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ...

A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia's near-total ban on abortion, including limits it imposed on ...

The second drug, misoprostol, taken 24 to 48 hours later, causes the uterus to contract and dilates the cervix, which will expel the embryo.

Mifepristone and misoprostol are recommended to be used together by the Food and Drug Administration for medication-induced abortions. (Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters) ...

WASHINGTON, April 20 (Reuters) - Use of the drug misoprostol on its own to terminate pregnancies is on the rise in the United States as providers seek a preemptive alternative while a ban on ...

When people refer to “the abortion pill,” they’re usually talking about mifepristone, the progesterone-inhibiting drug that was developed in France in the 1980s and approved in the U.S. in 2000.

The FDA, since first approving medical abortion in 2000, ... Then the person will take the misoprostol up to 48 hours later, which will cause cramping and bleeding emptying the uterus.

A divided federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld West Virginia's near-total ban on abortion, including limits on the widely ...

The FDA decision to drop the rule that abortion medication must be dispensed in person won't help people in states that require that. News. ... The second drug, misoprostol, ...