This is how it works: first, one pill in the doctor's office or at the clinic, and, a day or two later, a second set of pills at home. Then the waiting, with a husband or a girlfriend, watching ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In August 2004, Gabriela Flores, a 22-year-old farmworker in Pelion, South Carolina, ...

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — On Aug. 28, a woman entered an unidentified Canadian hospital and complained of severe abdominal cramping, bleeding, dizziness and weakness. She was participating in a ...

Two pregnant women died and others were seriously sickened after taking the abortion drug RU-486 during the 21 months since its approval in 2000. In an April letter to physicians, Danco Laboratories, ...

Rebekah Chaveste, who had successful RU-486 reversal after taking the pill at a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco, plays with her son, Zechariah, in early March. Chaveste took advantage of a ...

OTTAWA — Results are starting to come in on the use of the RU-486 abortion pill, and they didn't look good. The Canadian government refused in May to publicly disclose results from its investigation ...

Mark Louviere, a physician in Waterloo, Iowa, is not likely to forget the events of November 29, 1994. He was on call when the emergency room staff of Allen Memorial Hospital paged him. When Louviere ...

Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (PPARγ) regulates metabolic homeostasis and is a molecular target for anti-diabetic drugs. We report here the identification of a steroid receptor ...