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Article: Company launches commercially available in vitro maturation media.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- January 12, 2004
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2004 JAN 12 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Medi-Cult, a/s, (MEC) announced the launch of what it says is the world's first commercially available in vitro maturation media, IVM.
According to the company, this is a significant advance for women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Along with the initiation of an accompanying training program, Medi-Cult will begin shipping to accredited fertility clinics in Asia and selected eastern European countries in January 2004.
During conventional IVF, women undergo hormone treatment before egg collection, a process that requires constant physician supervision and may cause serious side effects, ...