There are no confirmed differences in safety, purity, or clinical efficacy among the various available urinary or recombinant gonadotropin products.”

List of hMG preparations
A number of drug companies have and had marketed hMG preparations that include:
Gynogen HP (Sanzyme (P) Limited)Highly purified urinary FSH and LH in 1:1 ratioHumog (Bharat Serums And Vaccines Ltd)highly purified urinary FSH and LH in 1:1 ratioHumegon (Organon)
Menopur (Ferring Pharmaceuticals), 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH activity
Merional, Meriofert (IBSA Institut)
Menogon
Metrodin (Serono)highly purified urinary FSHRepronex (Ferring Pharmaceuticals), 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH
Pergonal (Serono),Pergonal was the major hMG prior to the arrival of recombinant gonadotropins containing 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH.HMG Massone, 75 IU FSH and 75 IU LH

See also
Gonadotropin preparations


== References ==
Couvade is a term which was coined by anthropologist E. B. Tylor in 1865 to refer to certain rituals in several cultures that fathers adopt during pregnancy. Couvade can be traced to Ancient Egypt as a "sacred birth custom, of when a child is born, the man experiences the ritual of "labor" in which he takes to his bed, and undergoes periods of fasting and purification, and the observance of certain taboos".The term "couvade" is borrowed from French (where it is derived from the verb couver "to brood, hatch"); the use in the modern sense derives from a misunderstanding of an earlier idiom faire la couvade, which meant "to sit doing nothing. "An example of couvade is that the Cantabri people had a custom in which the father, during or immediately after the birth of a child, took to bed, complained of having labour pains, and was accorded the treatment usually shown to women during pregnancy or after childbirth. Similarly, in Papua New Guinea, fathers built a hut outside the village and mimicked the pains of labour until the baby is born. Similar rituals occur in other cultural groups in Thailand, Russia, China, India and many indigenous groups in the Americas. In some cultures, "sympathetic pregnancy" is attributed to efforts to ward off demons or spirits from the mother or seek favour of supernatural beings for the child. Couvade has been reported by travelers throughout history, including the Greek geographer Strabo (3.4.17).