Holly Patterson's father Monty was still in shock when he buried his 18-year-old daughter just days after he was called to a northern California emergency room. "The doctor came in and basically ...

WASHINGTON — After about 600 reports of infections and excessive bleeding and the deaths of three American women — including one this summer — the Food and Drug Administration decided to strengthen ...

More information was released Wednesday on the four women who died after taking the abortion pill commonly known as RU-486. A study in The New England Journal of Medicine details the infections each ...

Since RU-486’s approval, rising safety concerns and common side effects have led to little use. The abortion pill is catching on, but only slowly. Contrary to predictions, few physicians have ...

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OTTAWA — Results are starting to come in on the use of the RU-486 abortion pill, and they didn't look good. The Canadian government refused in May to publicly disclose results from its investigation ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This is how it works: first, one pill in the doctor's office or at the ...

RU 486, discovered more than 10 years ago, is an antiprogestin. Antiprogestins attach to progesterone receptors on the cell membrane in competition with the steroid hormone progesterone. When ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. This week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will write one more ...

The FDA has strengthened warning labels for the controversial abortion pill Mifeprex, better known as RU-486 (search), following an August report of a 22-year-old woman who died after taking the drug.

Reports that up to six American women and another woman in Canada have died after pill-induced abortions in recent years are making the regimen based on RU-486 look a lot less attractive than once ...

The abortion drug RU-486 prevents breast cancer in mice carrying a dangerous "cancer gene" mutation, new studies show. RU-486 itself will not be the answer for women; the potent drug is not meant for ...