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...Following Clinton's suggestion, Roussel Uclaf donates the U.S. patent to the Population Council...
Fears of antiabortion protests kept Roussel Uclaf, the French company that developed mifepristone, from trying to enter the American market. Instead, the company donated rights to the drug to the Population Council, a New York City-based nonprofit research organization. The council conducted the clinical trial of mifepristone, but needed a drug-company partner to handle manufacturing, advertising and distribution. Again, fears of protest--or worse--intervened, with drug behemoths refusing to touch the controversial pill. The council spent a year searching before it chose Danco, a company started expressly to handle mifepristone...
...French professor Etienne-Emile Baulieu and researchers from Roussel Uclaf synthesize RU 486 (mifepristone...
...Roussel Uclaf reports first successful human testing...
SEPTEMBER 1988 French Health Ministry approves RU 486 combined with prostaglandin for medical abortion. The following month Roussel Uclaf suspends distribution because of pressure from antiabortion groups. After the ministry orders the pills back on the market, they become available the following year...