GW Medical Center officials said they are considering whether to offer the newly approved FDA drug RU-486. The Food and Drug Administration approved the French abortion drug Mifepristone for U.S. use ...

In 1982, the researcher discovered the RU-486 molecule, a medicinal solution to surgical abortion. As France is celebrating ...

A self-described housewife turned feminist activist, she helped lead the women’s health movement in the 1970s.

Finally, due to the FDA’s rush to get RU-486, the so-called abortion pill, onto the market quickly, three American women have already died, and scores of others have suffered serious drug ...

RU 486 is an artificial steroid that interferes with the action of progesterone, a hormone crucial to the early progress of pregnancy. Progesterone stimulates the proliferation of the uterine ...

The research could further complicate the polarized politics of abortion because the drug in the study is the key ingredient in a pill used for emergency contraception.

A mathematical model suggests that existing HPA-targeting drugs failed in clinical trials for mood disorders because the ...

Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump appointee, allowed three states to go forward with a lawsuit that seeks to change how ...

The further away a person lives from an abortion facility, the more likely they depend on the pills being mailed to them.

The latest instalment of Inside City is here - and it provides a fly-on-the-wall account of our women’s team’s warm weather training camp. Gareth Taylor’s side spent a week at the beginning of January ...

Combination birth control pills, or the pill for short, are oral contraceptives that prevent pregnancy. If you’re considering your birth control options, the pill is one of the most common and ...

Drug testing may be required as a prerequisite for some jobs. State laws may dictate when private employers can require drug tests and how they can use the results. Job candidates for “safety ...