A Supreme Court ruling on mifepristone, one of the drugs used in a regimen for medication abortion, could hold broader implications for the US Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate medicines.
Mandatory Credit:	Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters/File via CNN Newsource

A Supreme Court ruling on mifepristone, one of the drugs used in a regimen for medication abortion, could hold broader implications for the US Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate medicines.
Mandatory Credit: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters/File via CNN Newsource

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Supreme Court medication abortion case threatens ‘seismic shift’ in FDA drug approval process, experts warn

In 1937, a drugmaker called S.E. Massengill Co. came up with what seemed like an improvement on an effective medicine for sore throats: a liquid formulation that tasted like raspberry.