Menotropins

Humegon; Pergonal; Repronex

Menotropin is an active substance for the treatment of fertility disturbances. It is extracted from human urine and contains the two hormones LH and FSH. Because of the risk that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) could be transfered by the, the Swiss medical board of control, Swissmedic, decreed that a supplemental warning must be provided, although as yet not one CJD infection has been transferred through human urine. In a complaint before their Federal court, the manufacturer objected that M ...