General Health

Officers are trained to push through discomfort, and most of the time that instinct serves them well. Chest pain is...

Testicular cancer is not the first disease most firefighters associate with the job, yet it carries one of the...

A coronary calcium score is one of the clearest early warnings the heart gives, and most working adults have never...

Every officer knows the stress of a hot call. Fewer talk about the slower kind, the accumulation of shift work,...

A firefighter fails a line on an audiogram, or a candidate mentions a heart condition, and suddenly everyone wants to...

Full body scans have gone from a fringe idea to a wellness status symbol, and employers are starting to field the...

  Two very different things get called "employee screening," and confusing them creates real exposure. One is...

  A resting heart can hide a serious problem. An artery can be significantly narrowed and still cause no symptoms...

  If NFPA 1582 answers whether a firefighter is medically fit for duty, NFPA 1583 answers a different question:...

  Ask most people how often they should see a doctor and they will say once a year, without hesitation. It is one...