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There are already cautionary tales arising from the early clinical trials. A family doctor in a rural, conservative town in the Northeast had a pregnant 18-year-old patient who wanted an abortion. He did not do surgical abortions, but he did offer her a medical alternative, using not mifepristone but the cancer drug methotrexate, which was also being tested in trials as an abortion inducer. The doctor, knowing that his nurses opposed abortion, administered the drug himself. That was in January 1998, and by Easter, the nursing staff had heard what happened and a nurse resigned. The local church...
...doctor from Oklahoma who last year tried to bar the FDA from spending federal funds to develop any kind of abortion drug. Schwartz thinks it is inevitable that the drug will be prescribed for women who are more than seven weeks pregnant, that there will be a lack of patient compliance and that someone will die from it. "These are predictable consequences, even with the guidelines," he says...
...mifepristone's defenders counter that carrying a baby to term is six times as dangerous as ending a pregnancy, whether surgically or medically. There are certainly risks if women were to use the drug without adequate supervision, but the FDA guidelines aim to limit that possibility: a patient will receive written instructions on taking the pills, and must sign a statement swearing that she has read them and that she will agree to a surgical abortion if the medication fails...
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...million Americans to improve memory and increase blood circulation. Doctors now believe ginkgo may reduce the number of platelets in the blood and can prevent blood from clotting properly. Taking ginkgo at the same time one is taking blood-thinning medications, like Coumadin or even aspirin, could make a patient dangerously vulnerable to bleeding...