What is COPD?

This video describe what COPD, or obstructive pulmonary disease, is and it's symptoms.

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Plasma and saliva miR-21 expression in colorectal cancer patients

Abstract

MicroRNA-21 (miR-21) expression was quantified by real-time qRT-PCR in peripheral blood and saliva samples obtained from patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer (CRC) of varying degrees of malignancy and healthy volunteers. All patients had adenocarcinoma located in the distal colon at different stages. Significant differences were detected between the control group and the total experimental group of CRC patients (plasma, P = 0.0001; saliva, P = 5e-12). MiR-21 expression was also significantly different in certain subgroups of patients with CRC disease stages II–IV as compared to the control group. No correlation of miR-21 expression was found with regard to gender and age of patents. Also, there were no significant individual correlations and linear regression of miR-21 expression in the plasma and saliva. The estimated diagnostic sensitivity and specificity of miR-21 expression were respectively 65 and 85% in the plasma, and 97 and 91% in the saliva. Our data suggest that miR-21 in both the saliva and plasma could be a proper biomarker for CRC screening, although the saliva miR-21 expression test looks preferable due to its higher sensitivity, specificity, and technical simplicity.

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What is COPD?

This video describe what COPD, or obstructive pulmonary disease, is and it's symptoms.

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What is COPD?

This video describe what COPD, or obstructive pulmonary disease, is and it's symptoms.

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What is COPD?

This video describe what COPD, or obstructive pulmonary disease, is and it's symptoms.

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Texas dispatcher talks woman through own baby delivery

By EMS1 Staff

HOUSTON — A dispatcher formed a special bond with a woman who gave birth to a baby this week. 

Dispatcher Renae Whitehouse received a 911 call Thursday morning from a woman who was going into labor. The 26-year-old woman told Whitehouse that she was home alone on her living room floor. 

"At first I was like, it probably won't happen before the medic unit gets there," Whitehouse told ABC. "And then she just had contraction after contraction after contraction. It was like, 'Oh, this is really happening.'"

The woman told Whitehouse she could feel the baby's head. Whitehouse instructed the woman to apply firm pressure to prevent the baby's head from delivering too quickly. Around eight minutes later, deputies arrived at the woman's home and the baby was delivered seconds later. 

"I cried a little bit after it was done," Whitehouse said. "I'm not gonna lie. I was just so happy."

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Mo. paramedic awarded Medal of Valor for daring rescue

By EMS1 Staff

VILLA RIDGE, Mo. — A paramedic was one of 10 first responders who were awarded the Medal of Valor this week.

"Each of these officers ignored extraordinary dangers to themselves, and instead thought only of the lives of others — people they had never met but who they have a solemn duty to protect," Gov. Jay Nixon said during the ceremony Monday. 

Meramec Ambulance paramedic Jordan V. Selsor was recognized for his efforts during a rescue, in which a victim was trapped in a vehicle that was quickly filling with floodwater, reported the EMissourian. Dispatchers lost contact with the victim once the water reached the victim's neck.

Since no other responders were at the scene, Selsor and another paramedic donned a lifevest and broke the rear window of the partially submerged vehicle. 

Although more water rushed into the vehicle, Selsor climbed onto the roof of the car to break the sunroof window. Due to the water's clouded nature, Selsor blindly pulled the victim out through the sunroof. Selsor then waited with the victim in knee-high water until rescue crews transported them to shore. 

The victim was treated for hypothermia; Selsor sustained numerous superficial cuts and abrasions.

"The Medal of Valor recipients carry out brace, decisive and selfless acts to protect the lives of other and make our communities safe. We should all be grateful for our outstanding public safety officers and they sacrifices they make to protect us." Gov. Nixon said.

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