Cytotec - News Articles
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Mar 30, 2007
Detroit Free Press, MI -
Many instead resort to taking Cytotec, an ulcer medication by Pfizer that can induce a miscarriage. Pfizer warns against its use by pregnant women, and it's supposed to be given only with a prescription. But McClatchy Newspapers found it widely for sale without ... -
Mar 29, 2007
LifeNews.com, MT -
Police say the teen admitted to using the ulcer drug Cytotec, which is also known as misoprostol. Abreu told police she got the drugs from a friend who had ... -
Mar 28, 2007
Boston Globe, MA -
Abreu, a Lawrence resident, allegedly admitted that she had taken three Cytotec pills before giving birth, an abortion method that is common in some Latin American communities, authorities said.Abortion is illegal in Massachusetts after 24 weeks of pregnancy, and any action to cause a ... -
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Feminist Majority Foundation -
The Essex, Massachusetts district attorney has announced that a woman who was charged two months ago with illegally inducing an abortion by taking anti-ulcer pills will not face homicide charges. . . . ... -
Mar 15, 2007
Daily Press, VA -
Riase is accused of crushing misoprostol pills and putting them in a drink that he gave to his pregnant girlfriend on Feb. 22. The 19-year-old woman began to bleed and drove herself to Sentara Careplex Hospital in Hampton, where medical staff told her that she miscarried.Riase ... -
Mar 15, 2007
LifeNews.com, MT -
Good indicated that Riase allegedly crushed two misoprostol pills, used in the abortion drug RU 486, and put them in the drink of his 19-year-old partner ... -
Mar 14, 2007
Synapse, CA -
The dose is 600mg of mifepristone, often followed by 400mcg of misoprostol in 48 hours. Misoprostol is a prostaglandin analog that is used to induce myometrial contractions and expulsion. Administration of mifepristone with the misoprostol has shown a 96-98% abortion rate. Side effects include ... -
Friday, March 23, 2007
Medical News Today (press release), UK -
The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for Revlimid (lenalidomide), from Celgene Europe, for the treatment of multiple myeloma. EMEA review began on 29 March 2006, with an active review time of 199 days. The ... -
Friday, March 23, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release), PA -
LONDON, March 23, 2007-On 16 November 2006, the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a negative opinion, recommending the refusal of the marketing authorisation for the medicinal product Mycograb 2 mg/ml powder for solution for injection intended for the ... -
Friday, March 23, 2007
Reuters.uk, UK -
ZURICH (Reuters) - A panel of European experts has recommended wider use of Roche's (ROG.VX: Quote, Profile , Research) cancer drug Herceptin and Actelion's ...
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Mar 13, 2007
Financial Express.bd, Bangladesh -
Desperate and alone, she turned to her landlady for help, who - used to her female student boarders' troubles -- sold Lala eight Cytotec pills. "My lover did not know of my plan to abort the baby," Lala says. At around 10 pm on ... -
Mar 3, 2007
Daily Press, VA -
Misoprostol - also known by its trade name Cytotec - has been around for years, according to Dr. Jewell Barnett, director of the OB/GYN residency program at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. It causes contractions of smooth muscles like the gut, uterus and intestine, ... -
Mar 5, 2007
Utne Reader Online -
Even though tests show that her baby is doing well, her obstetrician decides to induce labor with Cytotec. It's a drug that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for pregnant women, and it can cause contractions that are strong enough to lacerate ... -
Friday, March 09, 2007
Living on the Earth, MA -
GELLERMAN: One of the drugs that is used to induce labor is something called cytotec and you talk about it in the book. WAGNER: The amazing thing about cytotec is that it is on the market only to treat stomach ulcers in adults. And it says on ... -
Feb 25, 2007
News-Medical.net, Australia -
FDA in 2000 approved Mifeprex -- known generically as mifepristone -- to be taken in conjunction with the drug misoprostol to induce a medical abortion up to 49 days' gestation. Under the law, physicians in Ohio would have had to follow FDA guidelines for the ... -
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
The Statesman Online, Ghana -
Women are taking misoprostol, a drug registered in Ghana to cure stomach ulcers. The drug causes contractions in the uterus, which can flush out the tissue inside, but on its own the process produces more side effects, takes more time and is more often unsuccessful. ... -
Feb 16, 2007
WorldNetDaily, OR -
He also suggested that an investigation should have included the type of medication – reportedly Cytotec – used by the clinic to trigger the delivery of the child, because Pendergraft does not have the required permission to prescribe controlled substances, and is under investigation on allegations ... -
Feb 19, 2007
AlterNet, CA -
She had previously admitted to taking three pills of Cytotec, the brand name for misoprostol, an anti-ulcer medicine known to induce abortion. Abreu gave birth to a 1 and 1/4 pound baby girl named Ashley on Jan. 6 in the Lawrence General ... -
Feb 21, 2007
Nassau Guardian, Bahamas -
In my last column, I told you a story about the drug Cytotec, how its use as a Labour-inducing agent is cheap, how it enables women to give birth faster than they would naturally and how doctors can go home and have a daytime practice instead of being called ... -
Jan 24, 2007
WHDH-TV, MA -
Police say Amber Abreu, 18, over a two-day period took three misoprostol pills, which are used to prevent ulcers, but are also a component found in the abortion pill, RU-486. In the United State, taking misoprostol alone for an abortion is prohibited by law. Yet Abreu ...
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