according to reproductive health research group The Guttmacher Institute. The FDA approved BioGenPro’s generic form of mifepristone, mifepristone tablets 200 mg, in 2019.

It also reduced the dosage from 600 milligrams to 200 milligrams. In 2021, the FDA eliminated the requirement that mifepristone be administered in person; it was the only drug for which there was ...

Revered by many, feared by some, mifepristone is the little pill with a big reputation. By definition, mifepristone is an anti-progesterone. At low doses it blocks the naturally occurring hormone ...

Mifepristone is a drug approved by the FDA in 2000 that is used to end a pregnancy up until 10 weeks gestation. The drug is typically used in combination with the drug misoprostol to terminate a ...

Last year, the Supreme Court preserved the Food and Drug Administration’s previous existing approval of mifepristone. As the drug faces greater legal challenges, and after the fall of Roe v.

Last May, Louisiana passed a law to monitor misoprostol and mifepristone, the two pills commonly used to induce abortions. The law reclassified the drugs as "controlled substances," a designation ...

Since its approval in France in 1988, the abortifacient mifepristone (RU486) has proven to be a safe, effective, acceptable option for millions of women seeking abortion during the first several ...

A key issue in the hearing has been whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would increase scrutiny of the abortion drug mifepristone if he becomes HHS secretary. The drug is part of a two-step process that ...

Kathy Hochul to reverse course on a recently passed state law that shields the identities of healthcare providers who prescribe and mail the abortion pill mifepristone. In a letter to Hochul on ...