- Medication Abortion: A Guide for Health Professionals
(
January 2005
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This reader by Foster
published by Ibis Reproductive Health
provides detailed information about three different regimens for
medication abortion and is also available in Arabic.
Link to full text or source
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- Normalizing the exceptional: incorporating the “abortion pill” into mainstream medicine
(
January 2003
)
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This article by Joffe and
Weitz, published in Social Science&
Medicine, describes the difficult approval process for Mifepristone and the
external challenges to its diffusion into medical practice that have been
created , touching upon the role of the pharmaceutical company, and the conflict between the FDA-approved and
an evidence-based regime among other issues.
Link
to full text or source
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- Patient Attitudes Toward Early Abortion Services in the Family Medicine Practice
(
March 2008
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This article published in The
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine reports on a qualitative
study on women’s willingness to receive abortion care in a primary care
setting, noting the majority accepted the integration of abortion care into
family medicine settings.
Link to full text of
source
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- Questions and Answers on the Safety of Mifepristone
(
November 2006
)
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This fact sheet developed forhe Abortion Access Project by Sacheen Carr-Ellis, MD, offers brief answers to some of the questions raised regarding the safety of mifepristone in response to the six reported death of women who had used the medication.
(please register to download)
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- Review of medical abortion using mifepriston in combination with a prostaglandin analogue
(
January 2006
)
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This article by Fiala and
Gemzell-Danielsson published in Contraception
looks at the incorporation of prostaglandin in the medication abortion regimen.
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to full text or source
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- Risks of mifepristone abortion in context
(
June 2005
)
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This brief commentary by
Grimes published in Contraception
responds to 2005 media attention around four deaths following medication
abortion.
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or source
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- The Safety of Mifepristone
(
November 2006
)
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This short fact sheet presents web-based and published resources on the safety of medication abortion using mifepristone.
(please register to download)
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- Toxic Shock Associated With Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium perfringens After Medical Abortion
(
November 2007
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This article by Cohen et al published in Obstetrics & Gynecology examines
known four cases of infection after abortion in order to better understand the
risk for fatal toxic shocked caused by Clostridium sordellii.
Link to full
text or source
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- Update on Medication Abortion
(
February 2007
)
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This article by Beal
published in the Journal of Midwifery
& Women’s Health discusses the implementation of medication abortion in
the work of advanced practice clinicians, looking at various topics such as
overview of the abortion issue, innovative protocols and other practical
issues.
Link to
full text or source
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