Use of early medication abortion — which uses two drugs in lieu of surgery — rose from 161,000 procedures to 199,000 between 2005 and 2008; the proportion of all non-hospital abortions via early medication increased from 14% to 17%; 59% of all known abortion providers now offer the pills — RU-486, known as mifepristone, and misoprostol. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In addition, the medical reality of administering RU-486 (known as mifepristone in the United States and marketed under the name Mifeprex) has discouraged many doctors from offering it to patients. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Once again, it requires three visits to a doctor or a clinic on the first visit, you take three pills, mifepristone, that is what was FDA-approved today. ❋ Unknown (2000)
Corcept's first-generation compound, CORLUX, also known as mifepristone, directly blocks the cortisol (GR-II) receptor and the progesterone (PR) receptor.
Corcept's first-generation compound, CORLUX, also known as mifepristone, directly blocks the GR-II (cortisol) receptor and the progesterone receptor. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The abortion drug, also known as mifepristone, has been responsible for the deaths of at least a dozen women worldwide and has injured more than 1,200 according to FDA figures from 2007. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The abortion drug, also known as mifepristone, has been responsible for the deaths of at least a dozen ❋ Unknown (2009)
Unlike in other European countries, the pill, also known as mifepristone, will be administered solely in hospitals. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At the same time, Schatzberg was the principal investigator on a National Institute of Mental Health grant that included research on mifepristone for this use and he was coauthor of three papers on the subject. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The medications are mifepristone (RU-486) and buccal Misoprostol. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2008)
These results are similar to those reported in the initial clinical trials of mifepristone here in the US. ❋ Aka TBTAM (2008)
Abortions due to medication, or the drug mifepristone, once called RU-486, are now more accessible than they were five years ago because a growing number of family-planning clinics offer them, she said. ❋ Anna Wilde Mathews (2010)
Senator Grassley found that Schatzberg controlled more than $6 million worth of stock in Corcept Therapeutics, a company he cofounded that is testing mifepristone — the abortion drug otherwise known as RU-486 — as a treatment for psychotic depression. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Publisher: CBJ, L.P. More office-based doctors offering mifepristone. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And it is not to be confused with mifepristone, sometimes called RU-486, a drug used to terminate a pregnancy that is only available and administered at clinics or doctor's offices. ❋ Unknown (2009)
