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	Misoprostol

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aca547e9-2823-40da-a324-9f099806d849/4489585C-A424-4620-B371-289027638DFC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misoprostol" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misoprostol" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misoprostol"></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misoprostol"><B>Misoprostol</B> is a <A title=Medication href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medication">drug</A> 
that is <A class=mw-redirect title="Food and Drug Administration" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_and_Drug_Administration">FDA</A>-approved in the <A 
title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</A> for the 
prevention of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (<A class=mw-redirect 
title=NSAID href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAID">NSAID</A>)-induced <A title="Peptic ulcer" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptic_ulcer">gastric ulcers</A>. It is also used (and approved in 
other countries) to <A title="Induction (birth)" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_%28birth%29">induce labor</A> and as an <A 
title=Abortifacient href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortifacient">abortifacient</A>. It was 
invented and marketed by <A class=mw-redirect title="G.D. Searle &amp; Company" 
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.D._Searle_%26_Company">G.D. Searle &amp; Company</A> (now <A 
title=Pfizer href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer">Pfizer</A>) under the trade name 
<B>Cytotec</B>,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misoprostol"><P>Misoprostol is commonly prescribed off-label to cause <A title="Induction (birth)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_(birth)">labor induction</A> by promoting <A title="Childbirth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childbirth">uterine contractions</A> and the ripening (effacement or thinning) of the <A title="Cervix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervix">cervix</A>. Misoprostol is considered to be more effective than <A title="Oxytocin" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin">oxytocin</A> and <A title="Dinoprostone" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinoprostone">dinoprostone</A>, the <A title="Approved drug" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approved_drug">FDA-approved drugs</A> for medically necessary labor induction. It is also less expensive than either of these two drugs.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4489585C-A424-4620-B371-289027638DFC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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