How to Use misoprostol in a Sentence

misoprostol

noun
  • Is the misoprostol-alone regime safe?
    — Mara Gordon, NPR, 4 May 2026
  • That day, a doctor prescribed three tablets of misoprostol with one refill in case the first dose didn’t work.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024
  • Used alone, misoprostol is harder to predict.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • With misoprostol alone, patients may have to come in sooner for blood tests or ultrasounds.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2023
  • When used without mifepristone, a higher dose of misoprostol must be used.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 27 May 2026
  • The drug misoprostol is sold over the counter there and can legally be brought back to the United States.
    — Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2022
  • But using misoprostol alone has been shown to be less effective than the two-step regimen.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In some cases, patients take a regime of misoprostol only to end a pregnancy.
    — Ziva Branstetter, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2024
  • Mateu gives a pamphlet on misoprostol to each woman and answers their questions.
    — Sarah Parvini, latimes.com, 29 Oct. 2017
  • Mifepristone is given first, followed by misoprostol one to two days later.
    — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 8 Apr. 2023
  • Even misoprostol may be out of their reach, especially for teenagers or for women whose husbands or boyfriends control the cash.
    — The Economist, 9 June 2018
  • To use misoprostol only, a total of 12 pills are taken in three doses every three hours.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But taking a few doses of misoprostol alone is safe and nearly as effective as the two-drug regimen.
    — Claire Bugos, Verywell Health, 17 Mar. 2023
  • At the time, Grant said more than 80% of carafem's clients elected to use misoprostol only when given the choice.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 14 Mar. 2023
  • It is prescribed along with misoprostol to help expel the tissue from a pregnancy that has failed to develop.
    — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • When misoprostol is used alone, bleeding will typically begin within one to four hours.
    — Jen Christensen, CNN Money, 8 May 2026
  • The suit claims Cooprider mixed 10 misoprostol pills into the hot chocolate.
    — Melissa Chan, NBC news, 11 Aug. 2025
  • Administer the misoprostol, a drug that helps empty the uterus, and wait, the instructions said.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024
  • It is used in combination with a second drug misoprostol, which induces cramping.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • The second set of pills contains misoprostol, which makes the uterus contract and initiates bleeding and cramping.
    — Sammy Caiola, sacbee, 23 May 2017
  • The second — misoprostol — softens and opens the cervix and causes contractions to push out the pregnancy.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi, The Seattle Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Then the person will take the misoprostol up to 48 hours later, which will cause cramping and bleeding emptying the uterus.
    — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2021
  • For some people, treatment with misoprostol will not be effective and a D&C will then be needed.
    — Krissi Danielsson, Parents, 1 July 2024
  • Providers would still be free to prescribe and send misoprostol, which has no such restrictions and can safely terminate a pregnancy on its own.
    — Rachel Rebouché, The Conversation, 23 June 2026
  • Two pills that end a pregnancy of up to 10 weeks, mifepristone and misoprostol, can be administered at home.
    — Claire Cain Miller and, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2019
  • In hope of moving on as quickly as possible, the Arizona woman was prescribed misoprostol to induce the process.
    — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 25 June 2018
  • Whether Comstock could be used to also curtail shipments of misoprostol is not clear, since it is widely prescribed for other uses.
    — Matthew Perrone, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2023
  • People don’t realize how much that combination of mifepristone and misoprostol has been the method of choice for many women and for many reasons.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone in the body and is used with the drug misoprostol to end pregnancy within the first 10 weeks.
    — Lindsay Whitehurst and Alanna Durkin Richer, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The doctors eventually agreed to prescribe one final, stronger dose of misoprostol, Hamilton said.
    — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 10 June 2024

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