Along with the prevalence of abortion services, the development of methods of early medical (nonsurgical) abortion has the potential to affect the availability and utilization of these services. By 1995, mifepristone, in combination with a prostaglandin, was offered on a limited basis under experimental protocols up to 63 days from the woman’s last menstrual period; however, this method has not...

OBJECTIVES Early abortion is a common outpatient procedure, but few family medicine residencies provide abortion training. We wished to assess experiences and obstacles among residency programs that have worked to establish early abortion services. METHODS From 2001-2004, 14 faculty participated in a collaborative program to initiate abortion training at seven family medicine residencies. Ten...

INTRODUCTION Throughout Great Britain, increasing numbers of women having an early medical abortion are choosing to go home soon after administration of misoprostol, to expel the pregnancy at home (early medical discharge, EMD), rather than remain upon the hospital premises (day case). However, data are lacking on how this impacts upon an abortion service in terms of unscheduled re-attendance r...

PURPOSE To examine urban, inner-city female patients' acceptability of the provision of early abortion services by their family physician in the family medicine clinic (FMC). METHODS We administered a survey with open- and closed-ended questions to a convenience sample of English- or Spanish-speaking female patients aged 18 to 45 recruited from a FMC in the Bronx, New York. Responses were ana...

Citation: Zhou Y, Wang X, Zhang Y, Zhao T, Shan Z and Teng W (2018) Circulating MicroRNA Profile as a Potential Predictive Biomarker for Early Diagnosis of Spontaneous Abortion in Patients With Subclinical Hypothyroidism. Front. Endocrinol. 9:128. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2018.00128 circulating Microrna Profile as a Potential Predictive Biomarker for early Diagnosis of spontaneous abortion in Patient...

Theory suggests that abortion restrictions will influence fertility outcomes such as pregnancy, abortion, and birth. This paper exploits the variations in abortion policy generated in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990s to examine their impact on fertility outcomes. We distinguish among countries with severe, moderate, and few restrictions on abortion access and examine the impact ...

A hopeful note in the contemporary abortion environment in the United States is the expanding role of advanced practice clinicians--nurse practitioners, physician assistants and nurse-midwives--in first trimester abortion provision. A large percentage of primary health care in the U.S. is currently provided by these non-physicians but their involvement in abortion care is promising, especially ...