HEALTH / Common Procedures: Correction
The morning-after pill needs to be taken within 72 hours (three days) of intercourse and not 92. The new hormone treatment mifepristone (RU486) is licensed in this country as an alternative method of abortion; it is still only at trial stage as an emergency contraceptive.
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