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 …

OBJECTIVE: To summarize available data on the effectiveness and safety of single-agent
misoprostol for medical abortion in the first trimester. DATA SOURCES: We searched …

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 …

Background A wide range of drugs have been studied for first trimester medical abortion.
Studies evaluating different regimens, including combination mifepristone and misoprostol …

This paper examines the double life of misoprostol in Brazil, where it is illegally used by
women as an abortifacient and legally used in obstetric hospital wards. Based on my …

BACKGROUND: Nonsurgical abortion methods have the potential to improve access to high-
quality abortion care. Until recently, availability and utilization of mifepristone medical …

Misoprostol, although originally introduced as a therapy for gastric ulcers, is now widely
used in reproductive health. For some indications it is now the optimal choice, whilst for …

The aim was to review the current knowledge about the use of misoprostol alone for abortion
induction during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Publications reporting experiences with …

Objective To update our 2019 systematic review of data on the effectiveness and safety of
misoprostol-only for first-trimester abortion. Study design We searched PubMed on 18 …