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Article: Making a baby, Part II Doctor forms company that provides alternative to in-vitro fertilization
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 8, 1996
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For eight years, Dr. Claude Ranoux has quietly developed a new
approach to treating infertility that costs substantially less than
the standard method and is less risky for women.
Now, he's ready to begin marketing it.
The French-born Ranoux has formed Biofertec Ltd., a company that
will train physicians in the use of his patented technology known as
intra vaginal culture (IVC).
IVC's promise lies in the fact that it can be performed by an
obstetrician/gynecologist in the doctor's office for less than half
the cost of the standard infertility treatment, and it doesn't
require large doses of expensive fertility drugs that can often cause
side effects.
If the procedure takes off as Ranoux ...