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ts that the letter merely warned of adverse reactions in late pregnancy. But it has prompted many hospital pharmacies to remove the gastric ulcer drug from their shelves, to avoid possible lawsuits.

Campaigners who support a woman's right to abortion fear Pharmacia wants to distance itself from the abortion issue. They think that if the company is targeted, it may stop making the drug, which would prevent the use of the long-awaited abortion pill. "The only other drug that's used in Europe is not approved here," says Sandra Waldman of the Population Council in New York, which fought for the drug combination's US approval.

A spokesperson for Pharmacia would not comment on the company's plans for misoprostol, but says it has recently lost patent protection for the drug and that other companies could produce it. Stephen Fielding, who has studied misoprostol at the University of Rochester in New York, says the drug has so many uses that the company "will get a lot of heat from physicians if it tries to pull it off the market".


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Contact: Claire Bowles
claire.bowles@rbi.co.uk
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New Scientist
24-Oct-2000


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