The US Food and Drug Administration held off a legal challenge from a coalition of blue states over the abortion pill, ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. For many people, accessing abortion care can be a major challenge. Abortion services are usually only available in certain clinics with ...

Three RU-486 Mifeprex (mifepristone) abortion pills are held in a hand in a picture taken on ...More December 1, 2000. The RU-486 pill was approved in September 2000.

WEDNESDAY, July 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia can limit access to ...

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Martin Makary confirmed in a Monday letter to the Missouri senator that the agency will conduct a safety review of the abortion pill mifepristone.Makary ...

@HawleyMO asks RFK Jr. if he will study limiting the abortion pill following a report that 11% of women experience adverse effects. "I've asked Marty Makary, who's the director of FDA, to do a ...

By questioning the FDA's authority to regulate an abortion drug, ... Will ruling on abortion pill mifepristone access limit FDA's authority on all ... scientific review of efficacy and safety.

During Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s January 29 confirmation hearing for Health and Human Services secretary, Kennedy says that President Donald Trump asked him to re-evaluate the safety of the abortion ...

Their interest signals that medication abortion is becoming mainstream. In large parts of the country, that’s unwelcome. What’s next. Other lawsuits are trying to protect access to abortion pills.

More than 100 scientific studies, spanning continents and decades, have examined the effectiveness and safety of mifepristone and misoprostol, the abortion pills that are commonly used in the ...

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley’s quest to legitimize a junk science report undermining the safety of a widely used abortion pill was fully realized this week. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner ...