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Like RU-486, methotrexate must be used in combination with misoprostol, a medicine that makes the uterus contract. But while the Food and Drug Administration's approval of RU-486 was delayed for ...

RU-486 was developed in France and became available there in 1988. In 1989, Bush's father, President George Bush, ordered the FDA to ba importation of the drug for personal use.

Mifeprex is the trade name for mifepristone, better known as RU-486, the so-called abortion pill that received FDA approval last fall. That's right, that pill ...

Legally, RU-486 may be taken only through the 49th day of pregnancy, counting from the start of a woman’s last menstural period. That’s only about three weeks after a missed period.

Paving the way for a controversial abortion pill to enter the American market as early as 1996, a French pharmaceutical firm agreed Monday to donate its U.S. patent rights to a non-profit group tha… ...

While the drug Mifeprex (also known as RU-486) won its first battle in September when it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a new stream of controversy has sprung up over its use ...

“RU-486 Abortion Pill Hasn’t Caught on in U.S.” (May 31) presents a picture very different from what our experience has been nationally. Women have clearly expressed an interest in this ...

advanced medical system in the world, but the abortion pill, RU-486, is still not available in this country. Since becoming legal in France 12 years ago, RU-486 has been used by more than 600,000 ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Nov. 21 -- It was hailed by pro-abortion rights groups as aturning point in the abortion wars — a pill to increase access toabortions and let women get them privately from ...