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mifepristone
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mifepristone

Anti-progesterone drug used, in combination with a prostaglandin, to procure early abortion (up to the tenth week in pregnancy). It is administered only in hospitals or recognized clinics and a success rate of 95% is claimed. It was developed and first used in France in 1989. It was licensed in the UK in 1991, and became available in the USA from October 2000.

Clinical studies reported in 2000 indicate that daily low doses of mifepristone can serve as a contraceptive, as they suppress ovulation.
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The procedure, also referred to as emergency contraception, is different from the abortion pill RU-486, which the FDA has not approved.
PHYSICIANS UNFAZED BY RULING by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
29, 2000 Fibroids, an illness affecting 20 to 25 percent of woman of reproductive age, and leading to one-third of 500,000 hysterectomies done annually, are now being treated successfully with the abortion pill RU-486 (mifepristone) at the University of Rochester.
ADVANCE/Fibroids, Dangerous to Women: RU-486 May Provide Cure; Will ... by Business Wire
Byline: Associated Press A company involved in a complicated deal to eventually produce the abortion pill RU-486 in the United States filed suit in Santa Monica on Thursday, accusing the businessman putting together the arrangement of fraud.
FRAUD SUIT FILED BY U.S. PATENT HOLDER FOR RU-486 by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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