[Mifepristone (RU-486), from hell to purgatory]

Mifepristone (RU 486) is a synthetic steroid obtained by Bailieu in the year 1982. Initially it was used as a abortifacient drug and also as "afterday pill". In this sense it was ethically unacceptable. In France and even in the USA it was banned and the FDA had not given its approval. But in the late five years other uses of this substance were discovered, some of the are very valuable. In this sense, now we are using at new, and it is each practitioner who must decide on the reliability of its indication.