Stephen Doohan, 33, a Clinical Team Leader with the Scottish Ambulance Service, hatched the horrifying plan after the woman ...

A lawsuit challenging Louisiana’s classification of abortion drugs as controlled dangerous substances moves forward at the ...

Baton Rouge-based Judge Jewel Welch denied the Louisiana attorney general's request to dismiss a lawsuit filed last year by ...

A Louisiana judge will hear arguments challenging a first-of-its-kind reclassification of two abortion-inducing drugs as ...

ABSTRACT: Objectives: To evaluate the safety of using misoprostol for labor induction in twin pregnancies. Methodology: To address the research question regarding the safety and efficacy of ...

These new avenues to abortion, both inside and outside of the medical system, work so well because the two medications used for abortion—mifepristone and misoprostol—are 97.4 percent effective ...

Many conservatives want the FDA to impose tighter restrictions on mifepristone and misoprostol, which can be delivered by mail. The medication accounted for 63 percent of U.S. abortions in 2023.

A woman accused of having an illegal abortion arrived at hospital carrying a foetus in her backpack and told doctors she had miscarried naturally, a court has heard. Nicola Packer is charged with ...

[5] Unlike the off-label use of other drugs, the use of misoprostol for labor induction has sparked considerable controversy. Part of the controversy stems from our inability to answer the ...

The current research that exists regarding cervical ripening shows that misoprostol (Cytotec) is an effective option for labor induction and may be safer than once thought. There is a degree of ...

Her research team has gradually been working on simplifying the procedure. Now, the substance used is the prostaglandin analogue misoprostol, which was originally developed to prevent ulcers, but ...