Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday he would study the abortion pill mifepristone for "safety issues" if confirmed to lead ...

A key issue in the hearing has been whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would increase scrutiny of the abortion drug mifepristone ...

What is the shelf life of the abortion pill? Do abortion pills expire? Mifepristone usually has a shelf life of about five ...

Mifepristone is under attack by abortion opponents, with several states seeking in federal court to restrict its use.

A new study suggests that a pill used for emergency contraception could be repurposed at a higher dose as an abortion drug, ...

The goal of this study was to determine if ulipristal acetate and misoprostol could provide a safe and effective alternative ...

The research could further complicate the polarized politics of abortion because the drug in the study is the key ingredient ...

and abortion pills (like mifepristone and misoprostol) is already unclear to some and could subsequently bring the former under the same fire as the latter. A KFF Health Tracking Poll in 2023 ...

A decision by a federal judge last week is reviving the effort to limit access to mifepristone, opening a fresh round of litigation over a widely used drug that has grown in importance since the ...

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.

But the findings raise the provocative possibility that a drug already marketed as a contraceptive ... for abortion—a potential substitute for mifepristone, subject to fewer restrictions ...