Background Surgical abortion by vacuum aspiration or dilatation and curettage has been the
method of choice for early pregnancy termination since the 1960s. Medical abortion became …

Background Medical abortion became an alternative method of pregnancy termination
following the development of prostaglandins and antiprogesterone in the 1970s and 1980s …

CONTEXT Following a long‐term decline, abortion incidence stabilized between 2005 and
2008. Given the proliferation of state‐level abortion restrictions, it is critical to assess …

BACKGROUND: The dose of mifepristone approved by most government agencies for
medical abortion is 600 mg. Our aim was to summarize extant data on the effectiveness and …

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Background Medical abortion is under-used in developing countries. We assessed whether
early first-trimester medical abortion provided by midlevel providers (government-trained …

Background Telemedicine for medical abortion increases access to safe abortion but its use
has not been described in a controlled trial. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness …

Induced abortion is still a major health problem in the world and the most frequently
performed intervention in obstetrics and gynecology with an estimated total of 46 million …

Context: Progestin-only pills, the main hormonal alternative to ethinyl estradiol-containing
pills in women bearing vascular risk factors, are poorly tolerated due to irregular bleeding. In …

Background The most effective route and best interval between several doses of misoprostol
to induce abortion have not been defined. Our aim was to assess the effects of the interval …