Pregnancies ending in abortion do not increase the risk of developing breast cancer
Results of a major international collaboration investigating the relationship between abortion and breast cancer are published in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Authors of the study conclude that the totality of the worldwide evidence does not suggest any increase in the risk of developing breast cancer for women who have had a pregnancy that ended in miscarriage or induced abortion.... .....Abortion may not, after all, affect birth weight of future babies
A major study in China, published in the March issue of the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, addresses the controversy over abortion and the birth weight of subsequent pregnancies. ... ...Until now, few studies have investigated this. ......To assess the effect of a medical abortion on a subsequent pregnancy's birth weight, researchers analysed approximately 13,000 live term bir...More protests against abortion pill
. . Drug-induced abortion is now legal in the US, but there's a snag.... . . AFTER a ten-year fight, the "abortion pill" RU486 is finally available in the US. But the pill's supporters fear theirs may be a pyrrhic victory, because production of a second pill that has to be taken with RU486 is now under threat. . . RU486 (mifepristone) was approved in Britain nine years ago as an alte...Increase in effective contraceptive use can reduce abortion rate
.Even modest increases in effective contraceptive use can reduce abortion rates, say two leading demographers. By developing a mathematical model that links the abortion rate to its direct determinants, Population Council scientist John Bongaarts and Princeton University professor Charles Westoff show how increased contraceptive use and effectiveness can reduce abortion rates. Their analysis is...Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Medical scientists have known for decades that high.levels of lead in the body often cause spontaneous abortions, but now a new.study shows that lower lead levels can produce that result too.. The risk of spontaneous abortion nearly doubles for every increase of.five micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, the research revealed.. Dr. Irva Hertz-Pi....NEW YORK (July 15, 1998)--Over 2,000 American women, pregnant for 63 days or.less, who underwent medical abortion with mifepristone (formerly called RU 486).and misoprostol, found the method highly acceptable. Nearly all (96 percent).would recommend it to others; 91 percent would choose it again; and 88 percent.found it very or moderately satisfactory. Even among women for whom the method.fai...