They were randomised in a 2:1 ratio to receive either mifepristone (300–900 mg daily) or placebo for 24 weeks. Randomisation ...

New fluorescent drug lights up nerve tissue under special imaging equipment, giving surgeons a visual edge during procedure.

FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s pledge to reexamine the safety of medication abortion isn’t just pointless — it’s dangerous.

In her new book, Access, Rebecca Grant chronicles activists' decades-long fight to defy abortion restrictions—including the ...

The number of abortions in the U.S. continued to climb in 2024, driven in part by a dramatic increase in telemedicine access, ...

The attorneys general of four Democrat-led states—New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California—petitioned the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday, June 5, asking the agency to lift ...

Abortion Policy Govt + Politics Health Care Abortion opponents are coming for mifepristone using what medical experts call ‘junk science’ Using flawed studies and scientific journal publications, ...

The doctors challenging the drug said the FDA didn’t follow its own protocols and ignored contrary data when, in 2016 and 2020, it loosened the rules on who can prescribe mifepristone and how it ...

“It’s scary. It’s frustrating,” said Angel Foster, co-founder of the Massachusetts Medication Abortion Access Project, a clinic near Boston that mails mifepristone and misoprostol pills to patients in ...

Pro-choice advocates say the science is settled on the abortion pill mifepristone, but critics argue that better safeguards need to be in place after the FDA relaxed them in recent years.

The research shows that mifepristone was found to be as safe or safer than Viagra, Penicillin, or even aspirin. Yet somehow, you don’t see that many attempts to regulate Viagra.

Mifepristone is the first pill in the typical two-drug medication abortion regimen. A study found a potential substitute for mifepristone, which has been targeted by abortion opponents.