DESCRIPTION Herceptin (trastuzumab) is a humanized IgG1 kappa monoclonal antibody that selectively binds with high affinity to the extracellular domain of the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 protein, HER2. Trastuzumab is produced by recombinant DNA technology in a mammalian cell (Chinese Hamster Ovary) culture containing the antibiotic gentamicin. Gentamicin is not detectable in the final product. Herceptin is a sterile, white to pale yellow, preservative-free lyophilized powder for intravenous
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short time. When the birthrates decline at a period, needless to say, some social problems embark on appearing, such as labor shortage, aging of population economic downturn. It can be concluded from what mentioned above that the cause of late childbearing is due to financial worry as well as government plan. And then a string of side-effect may arise.
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decisions among the adolescents, (Parsons 1). The control over sexual and reproductive health issues is an important element in achieving gender equality. Women need to decide whether, when and with whom to have sex, they can make the decision on childbearing and have an opportunity to ask their partners to use a condom. Today there are millions of unintended pregnancies each year, this is an indication that women and girls are unable to make decisions for their reproductive health decisions. Statistics
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MEMORANDUM To: Anna Rieve From: Kristi Helmer Date: November 5, 2015 Subject: Audience Analysis Memo I have chosen to contrast two websites that deal with Women’s Health, more specifically health during pregnancy, childbirth, and newborns. The websites are BabyCenter.com (http://www.babycenter.com/) and the Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (https://www.awhonn.org/awhonn/). The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses is a website that promotes
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well as a very large belly meaning she could provide heat and warmth for herself, her child and her significant other which back then could have made the difference between survival and death. She has very wide hips which support a connection to childbearing and delineated genitals which suggests that she is very fertile. Barbie was first inspired by a pin-up doll named Lilli, intended for German men in World War II as an object of amusement. According to M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie, “Barbie
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keeping and maintaining simple life and separation from the world for Puritan societies. What it means to be a Puritan, and how its Puritans lived. The article was written between 1632 and 1682 about the laws about Puritans and a way of life from childbearing to local communities. Some of the laws were omitted. According to the date written, these chapters in the bible reflect upon expectations from communities where sometimes expectations were different. These dates also refer to the chapters
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Here is my paper on how women were different in the 1960’s versus now. In 1960, out of every 100 children, 65 lived in a family in which the parents were married, the dad worked, and the mom stayed home. By 2012, only 22 out of every 100 American kids lived such "married male-breadwinner" families. Back then women had fewer rights, for example they weren’t allowed to go in public without a male present. Their rights were very limited; In the 1960s, a bank could refuse to issue a credit card to an
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Caitlin Borgmann argues that abortion is ethical for many reasons. First, women have the right to decide what to do with their own bodies, she contends. Second, abortion allows women to participate equally in society by enabling them to postpone childbearing until they finish school or establish their careers. Borgmann also maintains that abortion allows women to have children only when they are ready to take care of them, and protects their health by allowing women to terminate pregnancies at legal
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Hepatitis C What is hepatitis C? Hepatitis C is a virus that can cause chronic liver disease, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. The virus is usually transmitted through blood or sexual contact. Some patients acquire the virus and develop acute hepatitis (inflammation of the liver). In a subset of patients, the initial infection fails to clear and individuals advance to chronic hepatitis C infection. Chronic hepatitis C significantly increases the risk of progressive liver fibrosis (cirrhosis) and
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parental investment suggest that different sexes invest different amounts of resources (time, energy etc.) into their offspring for it to survive, such as females investing far greater into their offspring compared to males due to a complex process of childbearing and childbirth. This leads to the same conclusion regarding women looking for partners with resources and men looking for women who are young to ensure they are able to reproduce and the child’s theirs as their main concern is to pass their genes
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