Early medical abortion in Cairns, Queensland: July 2006 – April 2007

Magdeburg , April - July 2006

Introduction In the end of the fifties as N. Chomsky has introduced the well-known classes of regular , context-free and context-sensitive languages. The aim was to model the syntax of natural languages. Based on the Backus-Naur form for the description of the syntax of programming languages, in the beginning of the sixties S. Ginsburg and H.G. Rice noticed that the grammars introduced by Choms...

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...

Early medical abortion at home.

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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Early medical abortion: legal and medical developments in Australia.

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 ...