Early medical abortion — available and safe
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Early medical abortion at home.
Cameron et al.1 report on a pilot of early medical abortion in a group of women with pregnancies less than 8 weeks. They demonstrated good patient experiences and high levels of satisfaction in this group of women; in the immediate aftermath of the abortion. I do, however, have serious concerns regarding their administration of mifepristone right away, on the same day, following patient assessm...
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We write in support of using mifepristone at the fi rst visit for early medical abortion (EMA), without an obligatory cooling-off period.1 In our service in South East Wales, we have been providing home EMA since 2007 in a setting very similar to that described in the pilot study reported by Cameron et al.2 Similarly, patients attending our service are able to have mifepristone administered at ...
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Mifepristone is a safe, effective and relatively cheap drug that plays an important role in women's health care and is widely used for early medical abortion in many countries. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) can authorise mifepristone to be imported into and marketed in Australia. To date, no pharmaceutical company has applied to register mifepristone in Australia. The TGA can also ...
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OBJECTIVE To review published reports of first-trimester medical abortion regimens that do not include mifepristone. METHODS Reports listed in Pubmed and Medline on prospective and controlled trials of the efficacy of misoprostol, alone or associated with methotrexate, for first-trimester abortion were analyzed if they included more than 100 participants and were published since 1990. RESUL...
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BACKGROUND AND METHODOLOGY South Africa's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1996 provides for safe termination of pregnancy (TOP) in designated facilities in the public and private health sectors. In 2001, mifepristone-misoprostol medical abortion was approved for TOP up to 56 days, but this method is not yet available in the public sector. Information on the operational requirements fo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.10877