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(Reuters) -CVS and Walgreens, the two largest U.S. pharmacy chains, will start selling abortion pill mifepristone at stores in several states this month, drawing praise from President Joe Biden ...
The two large pharmacy chains said they had received certification to dispense mifepristone, following a rule change the Food and Drug Administration finalized in January 2023.
On March 1, CVS and Walgreens — two of the largest pharmacy chains in the U.S. — announced that they would soon start selling mifepristone via a prescription in states where it’s legal to do so.
Mifepristone was developed in 1980 and came into use in France in 1987. [16] It became available in the United States in 2000, for medication abortion, and in 2010, for Cushing's syndrome. [17] [10] [12] It is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines. [18] Mifepristone was approved in Canada in January 2017. [19] [20]
One Walgreens pharmacy in Fort Myers, Florida, ordered 95,800 pills in 2009, but by 2011, this number had jumped to 2.2 million pills in one year. Another example was a Walgreens pharmacy in Hudson, Florida, a town of 34,000 people near Clearwater, that purchased 2.2 million pills in 2011, the DEA said.
In 1997, Gideon Richter withdrew from efforts to manufacture mifepristone in the United States following opposition from pro-life groups, which led to Danco filing a breach of contract lawsuit. [ 6 ] On September 28, 2000, Danco Laboratories received approval to distribute mifepristone (under the Mifeprex brand name) from the US Food and Drug ...
Walgreens and CVS will begin dispensing mifepristone in certain locations, but experts say an upcoming Supreme Court ruling could halt the rollout. Mifepristone abortion pills to be carried at CVS ...
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