Massone S.A., also Instituto Massone S.A., is a

pharmaceutical company The pharmaceutical industry discovers, develops, produces, and markets drugs or pharmaceutical drugs for use as medications to be administered to patients (or self-administered), with the aim to cure them, vaccinate them, or alleviate sympto ...

based in

Buenos Aires, Argentina Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

.Stealing Dreams: A Fertility Clinic Scandal - Page 121 1555535852 Mary Dodge, Gilbert Geis - 2003 - The Clinical Panel concluded that the use of hMG Massone violated FDA regulations, but that it did not compromise patient care. Massone is widely available in many countries, and a research study of six fertility drugs, including Massone and

Products

Among others Massone produces hMG (

human menopausal gonadotropin Menotropin (also called human menopausal gonadotropin or hMG) is a hormonally active medication for the treatment of fertility disturbances. Frequently the plural is used as the medication is a mixture of gonadotropins. Menotropins are extracted ...

s or menotropins). Menotropins are extracted from the urine of postmenopausal women and used in

infertility Infertility is the inability of a person, animal or plant to reproduce by natural means. It is usually not the natural state of a healthy adult, except notably among certain eusocial species (mostly haplodiploid insects). It is the normal state ...

therapy.

References

External links

Official web site
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